Rim Brake Perfection, lets fan boy yours..

[timto]

for consideration. Purpose built, practical and gorgeous. Will not hold you back and help you get to the end of looong rides in comfort and safety.

[Mike V]

Production rim brake steel perfection.

[El Chaba]

Originally Posted by Mike V

Production rim brake steel perfection.

Very, very cool…everything about it….

[Tim Porter]

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[Tim Porter]

[Tim Porter]

[Tim Porter]

[dcama5]

All three of my road bikes have caliper, rim brakes and since my wife and I only do road riding with a little gravel here and there, I do not have any other bikes. Both of her bikes have rim brakes also.

I guess the one I have had the longest is the Zank, about 8 years.


Around Thanksgiving I should receive my Zukas aluminum road frame. It will have these Velo Orange midreach calipers.

[eippo1]

My Tarmac SL5. Love this bike.

[mstateglfr]

Originally Posted by Tychom

I had this built for the good/bad roads around my in-laws and as a 'travel' bike and it's pretty much spot-on for it.

Light enough, stiff enough, comfortable enough, easy to maintain, easy to store, easy to travel with. Takes a 30+ tyre too. One remaining thing to do is maybe swap to a wider rim but.. I do like the current wheels.

What brand is this? Killer fade and I really like the curved stays.

[jamesdak]

Put me in the camp of it never made sense. The only time I've overheated my rim brakes were on a fast descent riding the Tour De Park City where I forgot about a horseshoe turn you hit during a 50+ mph descent. First year I didn't know about it, second year I forgot. Only time I've seem smoke coming up my front end from braking and even then I got through OK....barely....

I live surrounded by mountains and the only descent I even worry about brakes on is the Powder MT HC category climb. I will not ride my few C.F. wheels on that one because it hit's over 20% grade and you have no choice but to ride your brakes a lot coming down due to the steepness and curves, gravel on the pavement, etc.

Anyway, a sample of my beauties starting with the David Kirk built ones.





My all-time favorite still to this day.



This sees a lot of fast descending.



My goofiest and fastest bike. Although, I haven't had it out yet with these wheels.



Oscar survived on them.



Bill Davidson trusted them.



They have no problem stopping this rocket ship!



I rode this down 14% down grades on wet, muddy, loose gravel this past weekend and survived.



They even stop the fastest bike I've been out on this year.



I've got plenty more on top of these. :-)

[Tychom]

Originally Posted by mstateglfr

What brand is this? Killer fade and I really like the curved stays.

Kualis in Japan, aka Yoshi Nishikawa. Previously of Seven Cycles and Level.

[BRad704]

Can't get much more modern than this, while keeping the rim brakes.

[jamesdak]

Originally Posted by BRad704

Can't get much more modern than this, while keeping the rim brakes.

Nice! This is where my mind went when I saw this. Mean that in a good way, that bike just yells "muscular"!