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why road bike use dual pivot caliper brake?
why road bike use dual pivot caliper brake?
and roadie refer rider or bike?
Nearly all modern road bikes use dual pivot caliper brakes. They are simple, light and effective. Back in the dear, dead days of my youth, most road bikes (we called them 10-speeds) had either side pull or center pull brakes.
Older single pivot, side pull brakes had an annoying habit of rotating around their mounting bolt. This would cause a brake pad to drag on the rim.
Center pull brakes didn't drag in this fashion, but required an extra bracket mounted on the bike to provide a platform against which the brake cable pulled the straddle wire which activated the brake calipers.
Older touring bikes, tandems, mountain bikes and even modern cyclocross bikes have cantilever brakes. Cantilevers are lighter and simpler than center pull brakes but require the same type of bracket for the cable. Additionally, they require bosses on the fork and frame for the brakes to mount to. Well adjusted cantilevers work well, but otherwise, they are merely advisory.
Many modern mountain bikes are outfitted with linear pull brakes. (Also know Vee-Brakes). Linear pull brakes require no special bracket like a cantilever and provide a great deal of stopping power. Linear pull brakes require long cable pull levers to operate correctly. Thus, they are incompatible with common brake/shifters levers found on the majority of road bikes.
Few road bikes are ever equipped with disk brakes. Disk brakes provide excellent stopping power. However, so much power than is rarely required, plus they are more expensive and heavier than dual pivot brakes.
Here is an article on adjusting your brakes on the Park Tool Website:
http://www.parktool.com/repair/readhowto.asp?id=20
Hope this helps.
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