permanentjaun

I see a lot of washers and bolts. Maybe about $4 in hardware. Think about all the parts in a television. You can get a 20" tv for less than $200 now. Do they even make CRT tv's any more?

Brakes are only springs, nuts, bolts, and a frame. I bet you could produce a PVC brake for $10 that weighs only a slight bit more than the top notch brakes. Alright maybe not a slight bit more since PVC kinda sucks, but the prices being charged are ridiculous.

Edonis13

ColorChange

Hey, that's funny. I have StopTechs on my Porsche.

permanentjaun

I've got em on my 430.

ken cummings

Best Brake P@rn: www.bgcycles.com/brakes.html

SDRider

Those look really heavy.

cuda2k

Late model Campagnolo Super Record

Made_In_Warsaw

OK.....

Rman

I hope you don't plan to use your brakes. The pads are on backwards (unless Campy has some funky physics we don't know about).

jit5

No one has posted these yet:



Light, effective and reasonably priced..probably the best bang for the buck in the light weight brake dept.

.:Jimbo:.

While those bontragers may be light, effective and reasonably priced, they happen to do it while looking hideous. Those things look pretty darn cheap, and boring, and should not been thrown in this thread, not with some of the finer and more beautiful calipers posted earlier.

jit5

Agreed they do not have the looks of the classic brakes in this thread.

But they are lighter and stop better than Record, Force and especially Dura Ace. the fact that they are also less expensive is just a bonus.

schnee

... and a hell of a lot of research and development to make them that simple, serviceable and work so well.

You might as well say 'well a Doctor just uses a scalpel and some thread and painkillers.'

55/Rad

Just another shot for the sake of the thread.

schnee

55/Rad, I have a 90's Italian single-speed bike I've built up recently, and it's as much about aesthetics as function. It has Campy dual-pivots already that are nice, but not 'Delta' nice.

So, the real question... will later-model Deltas, with the 5-pivots, stop a 250 lb. clyde without much fuss? Do they require a lot more maintenance as a daily 'ride around'? Thanks in advance.

ggg300

They are not that bad...see

ggg300

There should be a footnote on #10 that reads: Unless its Rad/55's gear.

permanentjaun

Not really. You're comparing the process of a doctor needing to understand the intricacies of the human body vs different ways to make two brake pads squeeze a thin rim. People have been designing levers for many years. There are also many more constants in designing a brake system vs working on the human body. There are standard wheel sizes. There are standard operating parameters. Simply the fact that the only thing powering a bike is a human the brakes are at an advantage. You're more likely to over engineer brakes that will stop too quickly. This is converse to designing car brakes where cars keep getting faster and faster.

I'll stand behind my opinion. Brakes are drastically over priced. They're very simple machines with minimal material required. It's like saying a a single ratchet should cost $200. It shouldn't. It's just a simple machine.

operator

hook line and sinker.

schnee

Was that necessary?

BoSoxYacht

WNG

Blast from the past....

These old girls were considered hot in their day.

bbgobie

What brakes are these?
Hottest ones in the thread IMO.

giantcfr1

ViperZ

I like Long Life Threads