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chez_jay in reply to @jj72

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 think you have confused the Decelerator, which was a low-profile canti with a bizarre pulley system for the straddle cable, and the later Stop Lite, which was the original (and unpatented) direct-pull brake, which Shimano immediately copied as the V-brake.

Also that kid did OK: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-capron-a7b73736

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jj72 in reply to @chez_jay

I think the Decelerator was the first low-profile canti we’d ever seen, but yeah, I’d forgotten about the pulley system it had.

Ben Capron, that was him! He was about 18 when he did his first brake, I think. He did well...

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