ultrazenith
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Before the invention of V brakes, cantilever brakes had many different designs, and were a nice and cheap way to personalise your bike. Anodized colours, cool designs, or just plain sexy XTR cantis. Cantis were the epitome of customising your bike just for the sake of it. Sadly, this all changed when Shimano brought out their V brakes, spelling the end of cool cantis. V brakes are nice technology, but boring looking unless you could afford the the XT or XTR versions. I would trace the end of the MTB scene back to that same year, due to the demise of cantilevers, but also due the fragmentation of MTBers around about those years into downhillers and XC (true MTBers) riders.
This thread is dedicated to the cantilever brake. Please post your favourite cantis, and let us together lament their demise and replacement with boring and anti-individualist V-brakes.
I always loved the XTR cantis, and also wanted a set of CNC machined, anodized cantis.
At the moment I'm planning to go back to cantis for my main retro bike, maybe MT60s, maybe the low profile XTRs, maybe something else.
This thread is dedicated to the cantilever brake. Please post your favourite cantis, and let us together lament their demise and replacement with boring and anti-individualist V-brakes.
I always loved the XTR cantis, and also wanted a set of CNC machined, anodized cantis.
At the moment I'm planning to go back to cantis for my main retro bike, maybe MT60s, maybe the low profile XTRs, maybe something else.