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slik lookin bike !!! like the bar end levers, dimpled fenders and the racks :) dont center pull brakes usually need more "pull" than standard calipers tho ?
 
My experience has been that center-pull cantilevers like those depicted, if properly adjusted, are the best rim brakes I have had, better IMO than the side-pull stuff that comes on everything nowadays. I haven't had experience with the cam type though, but some say they're even better. The canti's on my Mongoose don't stick out like the later ones, but they work GREAT! :wink:
 
Buck Masterson said:
That is perdy, but you can find all kinds of bikes that look just like that one left over from the 70's and 80's at a yard sale near you.

True that!
I just picked up a '79 Schwinn Collegiate and a '75 Columbia Sport (both 3 speeds) at an estate sale.
The bike pictured looks just like my Schwinn (sorry no pics yet!).
 
i agree u can find really nice ones like that from back in the day cheap. it is so funny to me that these are now "high end" but then on the other hand i guess the same could be said for our beloved fat tire bikes as well
 


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