🔥 The Avid Shorty Ultimate Front Cantilever Brake: Achieve Unparalleled Braking Performance Review

After years of struggling with weak brakes on my CX bike I've heard some reviews online about them and I have to say they are just as good as regular road brakes. Very good design, very nice feeling. I wouldn't want to go down the mountain with my old Shimano cantis, but that's about it. And all the noise was gone. These are the best. At first I only bought the front ones to test and immediately ordered the rear ones after one ride.

I bought both the front and back so the review covers both. These are some of the nicest cantilever brakes I've ever seen. I'm not too mechanically savvy, but was able to install and configure them myself (so far so good). Beautiful and easy to control and fade. I'm sure it doesn't have as much stopping power as a disc, but if you pull hard enough it still locks up your tires. Anyway, why would you stop for a dime when you're going at a decent pace? You know you'd turn around otherwise. One…

I love these brakes (I bought them as a kit so this review includes both front and rear brakes). Great stopping power but even better modulation and control, plus they look about as sexy as a set of cantilever brakes can get. Amazed more than the price - they are expensive. But I drive more than twenty miles a day through Seattle on busy, hilly, and often wet roads, so my brakes are essential for both quick, sometimes unexpected stops and slowing down monstrous climbs in less than ideal…