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They look like they may work in the same way as Avid Shorty Ultimates (An excellent and highly recommended brake). And I think you may have some required bits missing.
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Are they for the Pedersen?
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I think they’re a type of cantilever that’s not actually a cantilever. To be a true canti there should be angle of 90° between the pivot point and the straddle cable, which is why most early cantis were quite wide. Then back in the late 80’s some kid in California came up with a brake called the Marinovative Decelerator which was way more upright, and as the straddle wire wasn’t anywhere near 90° it was probably more of a v-brake. I never saw one in the flesh here, they were stupidly expensive but cool as fuck. Shimano then bought out their version of much more upright cantis, and Tektro broke into the market with some very cool and underrated versions, which you could also get in groovy anodised colours, including purple. That was important in mountainbiking back then.
So yeah, they’re a sort of canti-V hybrid. They’re probably a bit shit compared with a V brake, tbh.
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It's just an early 90s style 'low profile' MTB canti, isn't it? This is an Avid Tri-Align:
[edit: yours look more like Marins: ]
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I had a set of those a while back. Someone IDed them as Tektro. They're just a design of canti. My memory of 90s MTBs is that the first design that was on those lines was the Gravity Research Pipe Dreams.
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How do these brakes work?
I have it in my head they’re ‘V brakes’ but they have what looks like an interface for straddle cable end boss thing. There’s no noodle or that hinged metal thing that noodles slot into.
Is it basically a Canti that works on a near vertical angle? Sold as ‘great for using 26” brake mounts to 650b wheel’, there’s certainly loads of adjustment on the barrel.
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