re: #15 wrenchwench

Centerpull brakes! This stumpjumper came with them originally. I didn’t really enjoy adjusting them all that much. Eventually I got V brakes, which felt like a huge improvement to me. The stumpy is now on it’s third fork, this one has studs for mounting a disc brake, so I have a disc in front and v brake in the back. 99% of the time the the back brake is unhooked cuz what help is it going to give the front disc? I keep it there for times when I let the pads wear out too much but that’s about it.
A car stopped kind of suddenly in front of me this morning and it didn’t even take a very hard squeeze to do a nice stoppie - water bottle fell out and everything. It was pretty damn close to an instant stop.