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Shimano launched them in 1996 with the M950 group
Which is an absolute design icon IMO, Id love it if they brought that finish back.
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phwoar yeh thats awesome!
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an absolute design icon
And yet a failure on so many levels. By 1996, it was already obvious that disc brakes were the future, the parallelogram brakes were a complex solution in search of a problem, and first generation Octalink was wrong even for Octalink, and, as it turns out, just completely wrong for a BB.
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I have those xtr brakes and levers! They’ve lasted 20 years and still look very good.
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I picked up a 1990 edition of Richard's bicycle book in a charity shop the other day, and was surprised to see that he recommended U-brakes and Cantis for anything other than road racing. I'd not realised that V-brakes didn't really take off until the mid-nineties.