Hi all. My first question here, hope one of you knowledable bunch can help.
I have inherited a cyclocross style bike to get me back into cycling, but the cantilever brakes are terryingfying bad so i was thinking of getting new brakes, to helpy confidence. I understand that mini v-brakes work with road levers but v-brakes dont without an adapter, so i have a couple questions before i make the wrong purchase.
Firstly how long an arm can i get away with? What is the cut off between mini-v and v, where they will no longer be effective with road levers? (Bike is fitted with microshift if it makes a difference)
The bike has 40c tyres, i dont have mud guards and mud build up should never be a problem for me personally. So should i just purchase the shortest arm so that the cable clears the tyre, or is this wrong thinking? I figure the tyre will never go up and the cable will never go down so as long as its not touching its ok? And the width of the tyre shouldn't matter as the gap between the arms is determined by the width of the mounts on the forks?
Can i just measure from.the centre of the mount to the topnof the tyre and get an arm length to clear it?
Thanks to anyone that can help.
I have inherited a cyclocross style bike to get me back into cycling, but the cantilever brakes are terryingfying bad so i was thinking of getting new brakes, to helpy confidence. I understand that mini v-brakes work with road levers but v-brakes dont without an adapter, so i have a couple questions before i make the wrong purchase.
Firstly how long an arm can i get away with? What is the cut off between mini-v and v, where they will no longer be effective with road levers? (Bike is fitted with microshift if it makes a difference)
The bike has 40c tyres, i dont have mud guards and mud build up should never be a problem for me personally. So should i just purchase the shortest arm so that the cable clears the tyre, or is this wrong thinking? I figure the tyre will never go up and the cable will never go down so as long as its not touching its ok? And the width of the tyre shouldn't matter as the gap between the arms is determined by the width of the mounts on the forks?
Can i just measure from.the centre of the mount to the topnof the tyre and get an arm length to clear it?
Thanks to anyone that can help.