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V-brakes vs. Center-pull brakes
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cyccommute
“Linear” brakes are called that because the cable pulls linearly across the brake arms instead of vertically
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sjanzeir
the reason why V-brakes are called "linear pull" brakes [is] the physical orientation of the cable down at the actual V-brake arms.
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Jeff Neese
it has nothing to do with the physical orientation of the cable with regard to the the brakes
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Jeff Neese
It has to do with how much cable the lever pulls
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cyccommute
t
hey pull more cable but that has nothing to do with why they are call “linear pull”
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