Machine tech and Controltech Cantis

[ibbz]

Very Expensive
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26610318...a99DENgT8C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16535526...a99DENgT8C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/16534456...a99DENgT8C&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

 

[BlackCat]

Blue Machine Techs have been on for ages. I think the first set is reasonably priced though. Controltech’s definitely fairly full priced. Think I paid about £120 for a mint black set 24 months ago.

 

[mk one]

Agree, I think I sold my Control Tech;s for around the same price not that long ago.

 

[BlackCat]

Really like the Controltech cantis - good example of that 90s MTB mindset of trying to fix a problem that didn’t exist using a simple but innovative solution!

 

[sparkybhp]

Nice components all of them. I have a set of Machine Tech levers for v-brakes waiting for something to fit them to(!) Really nicely engineered/made.

 

[ferrus]

Really like the Controltech cantis - good example of that 90s MTB mindset of trying to fix a problem that didn’t exist using a simple but innovative solution!

The spring tension always seemed too high to me and you couldn’t really adjust it; the ex missus managed to break loads of springs too.
But at least the brakes only cost us £15 a pop from Ricci cycles. Wish I’d bought loads of sets now!!

 

[ferrus]

The black ones above are the nicer fully machined ones. There was also a forged, partially machined version:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/26610620...and=Control+Tech&_trksid=p2047675.c101224.m-1

 

[BlackCat]

The spring tension always seemed too high to me and you couldn’t really adjust it; the ex missus managed to break loads of springs too.
But at least the brakes only cost us £15 a pop from Ricci cycles. Wish I’d bought loads of sets now!!

I hope for the sake of the denizens of RB, this pricing was a couple of decades ago, not 6 months!

 

[ferrus]

Alas it was, 96 or 97 I think.
Ricci used to advertise loads of out of date stuff for peanuts - some of which they actually had! We bought a few sets of Onza HO canti’s for £15 as well

 

[BlackCat]

Alas it was, 96 or 97 I think.
Ricci used to advertise loads of out of date stuff for peanuts - some of which they actually had! We bought a few sets of Onza HO canti’s for £15 as well

Good deal on the HO’s too.. necessary in that case given you typically got half a dozen rides out of them before they cracked! I have an BNIB bike’s worth lying around but every time I weight them up for a build I think.. “what’s the point?”