Question about brakes.

[Micah]

Do you think that I could use a caliper brake or a center pull brake on a unicycle? I would imagine it’d be fine. I’m just wondering why people don’t use cable actuated brakes. It seems like it’s also a logical way instead of hydraulic Magura brakes.

[saskatchewanian]

They work great on road wheels but it is hard to get a cable actuated rim brake too fit around a 3" tire.

I used a BMX style brake on my 36 and road 27 for a while and they worked just fine. Eventually switched to Maguras for better modulation and stopping power then to disks to remove wheel/frame flex from the equation.

[pinefresh]

If you search there’s a couple threads about it, I’d start here,

one way to put V-Brakes on Mag mounts

I’ve been trolling around on the Observed Trials forum for a while, and someone put up a way to mount a brake directly to the Magura bosses. I went to the hardware store and about $4.00 later I had everything I needed to put my v-brakes onto my Nightrider. Here are some pix but the idea is to get 30mm bolts that thread into the existing mounts. I put aluminum spacers in to take up the space between the bolt and the brass bushing in the caliper, and I made a plate that holds the spring out of …

I plan on giving this a try after I get a 29er.

[Micah]

@saskatchewanian

They work great on road wheels but it is hard to get a cable actuated rim brake too fit around a 3" tire.

Well that works perfectly! I’d be using it strictly on a road tire.

[tholub]

@Micah

Well that works perfectly! I’d be using it strictly on a road tire.

I have a V-brake on a 29er road/MUni cross, it works great, and more reliably than the Maguras.