Show us your Titanium....

[matticus]

Good lord - Cantis! Surely not a recent model - this is like seeing a mint condition DB5 on the high street !!!

 

[Gunk]

It’s from around 2010.

the cantis are TRP magnesium, very trick!

 

[T4tomo]

Good lord - Cantis! Surely not a recent model - this is like seeing a mint condition DB5 on the high street !!!

but if you don't have disc brakes, Canti's allow you to fit decent volume tyre if you are off roading (or like more comfort) and still play nicely with drop bar lever (and look much nice than mini V's, which just about work with drop bar levers)

 

[Gunk]

but if you don't have disc brakes, Canti's allow you to fit decent volume tyre if you are off roading (or like more comfort) and still play nicely with drop bar lever (and look much nice than mini V's, which just about work with drop bar levers)

I really like them, plus they have a lovely engineering elegance about them.

 

[T4tomo]

Same here, the only downside is occasional front brake judder. toeing in the pads helps.

 

[matticus]

but if you don't have disc brakes, Canti's allow you to fit decent volume tyre if you are off roading (or like more comfort) and still play nicely with drop bar lever (and look much nice than mini V's, which just about work with drop bar levers)

No "but" required (there is nothing wrong with a DB5!)
@Gunk which model is that? The VN range is quite complex over time. I may well have missed that one ...
(I've got a 2007-ish Airborne Valkyrie - the ancient ancestor - with dual-pivots.)

 

[Gunk]

No "but" required (there is nothing wrong with a DB5!)
@Gunk which model is that? The VN range is quite complex over time. I may well have missed that one ...
(I've got a 2007-ish Airborne Valkyrie - the ancient ancestor - with dual-pivots.)

it’s an Amazon

 

[Ming the Merciless]

I have a replacement Amazon frame from 2018. It has fittings for all types of brakes. Whatever takes your fancy.

 

[matticus]

I have a replacement Amazon frame from 2018. It has fittings for all types of brakes. Whatever takes your fancy.

Ah right - I didn't fancy a bike with fittings for discs. I think there are compromises with the frame-fork design for the different braking loads. (Probably moot whether they matter, but that was my thinking when I was looking at VNs ... )

I'm still sherioshly considering a custom Ti build with cantis.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Ah right - I didn't fancy a bike with fittings for discs. I think there are compromises with the frame-fork design for the different braking loads. (Probably moot whether they matter, but that was my thinking when I was looking at VNs ... )

I'm still sherioshly considering a custom Ti build with cantis.

For the fork you can still get them with fittings for cantis etc. So you can have cantis front and rear or cantis front, disk rear etc.

 

[Gunk]

My frame has fittings for cantis, disc or calipers

 

[cougie uk]

Planet X sorted out the sizing issue really quickly. Here is one from last year. It got a bit muddy. It's now wearing mudguards.

 

[T4tomo]

Same here, the only downside is occasional front brake judder. toeing in the pads helps.

Footnote to my judder comment, I fitted one of these, rather than a stem hanger
https://www.spacycles.co.uk/m7b0s101p1809/TEKTRO-Front-Uphanger-For-Cantilever-Brakes
and its now judder free, with the shorter wire. All praise the cantilever brake and its engineering excellence.

 

[craigwend]

Short test ridden: very nice so far, will get used to the SRAM gears and swapped the stem to a slightly shorter / riser one 💕

 

[cougie uk]

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Short test ridden: very nice so far, will get used to the SRAM gears and swapped the stem to a slightly shorter / riser one 💕

Is that the Hurricane ? Looks nice.