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I have just been lent a rather lovely Moots PsychloX bike from about a dozen years ago. It has rim brakes and they are TRP Eurox cantis. The bike has hardly been ridden in the past 10yrs and the pads seem hard with some poor braking which is improving with use.
It has Dura Ace groupset, 10sp. Is there a better canti or a V brake that would improve the braking?
Also in the house is a Specialized Tricross running 3x9 Tiagra. This has some poor cantis. Not sure what make they are. Would some V brakes improve the flakey braking on this?
If so....what do i need? The tricross sometimes has mudguards, but the Moots doesnt.
TRP CX9
CX9 for both? Are they better?
The EuroX cantis are excellent. Try some new pads.
Full v-brakes won't work without using some kind of gizmo to modify the cable pull. Mini-vs will work but I hated them when I tried them, you had to run the pads really close to the rim and made them shit when muddy.
On my 15 year old crosser I went from 105 STI drop bar levers pulling canti's to full vees with travel agents. Then tectro mini vees. Finally I went to CX9's. Much more power than the tectro mini vees. Best of the four brake systems tried on the bike, and in use now for maybe seven years. So I would recommend them for any rim braked bike with canti bosses where you're looking for more power, and are using levers that have a pull ratio for cantis.
"some kind of gizmo to modify the cable pull" = travel agent
Ok...there is an outside chance thw Moots will become mine, so im just checking on upgrades. It may just be the pads as the performance has improved over the 60 hilly miles ive done.
The Spesh is already in the house, but its breaking is poor. It gets used for commutes, as we have priper disc brakes gravel bikes. So it seems like mini V brakes could be the way forwards there.
I get on well with TRP CX 8.4s.
I think the shorter arm length means the pads sit further from the rim than with CX9s, but you won't get bigger than a 38c tyre under the straddle cable.
I have Avid Shorty Ultimates on my gravel bike, more tyre clearance, pads sit further from the rim, but the performance could only be described as 'adequate', I'd say my Ultegra callipers on the road bike are better...
Any mini-v, cx9's might be pimpy but the basic tektro mini v are a million times better than cantis.
Ive got tektro RX6 on my SSCX, they work fine both with 42c tyres and mudguards.
TRP CX 8.4s.
I put these on my specialized crux they are great, much more power than the OEM Shimano ones.
One thing to watch out for, my brake pads catch on the forks and seat stays when released that means getting inflated larger tyres in and out can be annoying, where as the originals clear the seat stays and forks.
Mini-vs will work but I hated them when I tried them, you had to run the pads really close to the rim and made them shit when muddy.
Agree. They also have less modulation which is important when riding skinny tyres off road.
Moots? Don't muck around & just get Pauls Mini Moto's.
Well it is a Moots, but its not mine. However should that becime possible i will seriously consider the Pauls!