Has anyone used cantilever brakes on a road bike before? (i know they used to be very common but what about recently)
The sight of Paris-Roubaix on the weekend has made me think about this.
I know that cyclocross bikes commonly make use of canti brakes.
Is it true that the fork legs are longer on a cyclocross bike (thus making a different frame necessary)?
Is there a way of adapting a road bike to accept cantilever brakes?
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Cantilever brakes
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Most road bikes don't have the bosses for canti brakes on the frame and fork, and I'm not aware of any way one could adapt a road frame/fork to take canti's - I suppose you could replace the fork with one which has the bosses (carbon road forks with V/canti bosses do exist but they're not very common) and you could take the frame to a framebuilder and have them weld bosses on the seatstays - enormous amount of effort and hassle though, especially if the frame isn't steel.
If building a road bike from scratch, though, it is feasible to use a cyclocross frame/fork, which will come with the bosses. The fork is unlikely to be an aero carbon variety though, it'll probably be a hefty bit of alu or even cromoly.
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Originally posted by mjw_byrne
Most road bikes don't have the bosses for canti brakes on the frame and fork, and I'm not aware of any way one could adapt a road frame/fork to take canti's - I suppose you could replace the fork with one which has the bosses (carbon road forks with V/canti bosses do exist but they're not very common) and you could take the frame to a framebuilder and have them weld bosses on the seatstays - enormous amount of effort and hassle though, especially if the frame isn't steel.
If building a road bike from scratch, though, it is feasible to use a cyclocross frame/fork, which will come with the bosses. The fork is unlikely to be an aero carbon variety though, it'll probably be a hefty bit of alu or even cromoly.Somewhere I have seen reference to canti bosses that can be mounted without butchering the frame. There are CF cross forks.
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