How do mountain bike brakes work? V-brake or disc brake? What is the difference between side-pull and linear-pull brakes? What type of disc brakes should I buy? And the hotly debated topic of ...

Cyclocross brakes come in three predominant types: cantilevers, disc brakes, and mini-v’s (technically called mini-linear pull). The godfather of ‘cross bike binders is the cantilever-style which, ...

Not to mention that many professionals in Europe are still using rim brakes. Just before the disc wave hit, mini-linear pull cantilever brakes, nicknamed “mini-V brakes” (alluding to the coinage of ...

Case in point is TRP's CX 9 linear pull brakes. In contrast to nearly all conventional 'cross cantilevers – especially Euro-style wide-profile ones – the CX 9's no-profile, high-leverage ...