Which are the best retro brakes?

Pierre":3892y3r9 said:
Just wondering, after finding out about exotic and unusual brakes on the mountain bike side of the forum, if there have been similarly weird and wonderful creations for road bikes.
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This 1935 Schulz has some of the most interesting brakes I've ever seen, both front and rear:

http://www.reneherse.com/Schultz.html

Click the pictures for much bigger ones. The front is like a chromed steel V-brake on U-brake mounts:

http://www.reneherse.com/images/DSC_00333.JPG

The rear still has me scratching my head years after I first saw it:

http://www.reneherse.com/images/DSC_00302.JPG

http://www.reneherse.com/images/DSC_0035.JPG

The whole bike is a feast for lovers of quirk.
 
Wow - this is more like it! Those Resilions look superb, and the brakes on that Schulz are, as you say, eye-boggling!

Magura have recently brought out newer hydraulics, which look slightly less alien than those HS77s, but they are still pretty awesome...
 
Just Googled the old Magura's looks like I missed the boat :(

Heres the new ones anyway (modern Delta anyone?)

magura.jpg
 
Tel":1izrhw58 said:
Just Googled the old Magura's looks like I missed the boat :(

Heres the new ones anyway (modern Delta anyone?)

magura.jpg
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bloody hell! you could start with those and build the bike around it! :)
 
They're rather lovely, aren't they? Shame the lever-end options are mostly ugly. If I could crowbar a reservoir and plunger into a Campagnolo EPS lever, I think it would make a great - and cable-less - build...
 
i have never had any complaints about the good old campag nuovo record calipers - anything that can stop 14 stones of scottish beef on a one in 5 descent can't be bad!!!

:shock:
 
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