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Yeah, the somewhat excessive number of bits that have passed through my hands does need a bit of explanation, it's basically that when I start putting a new bike together I can get a bit obsessive about getting it just right I'm just a sucker for something a bit unusual/exotic. So ages ago I picked a set of Mavic Mektronic gears so assembled the groupset to build up a bike (hence the Mavic brakes), the Mektronic is great fun but gets fickle about changing gears in the wet so no good for a serious main bike. I bought the Dia Compes as a stop gap for the Pedal Force while I decided/tracked down the final brakes I wanted for it, the ZGs.
The Dia Compes are now on the Langster but will get transferred onto the new lighter fixie once I put it together, thanks Hippy for your input on that thread. The Paul Motolites were an indulgence I fitted to my original build of my Xtracycle. These have now been replaced by a set of Magura hydraulic rim brakes liberated from one of my previous commuters, a heavily rebuilt Specialized Sirrus. The great thing, IMHO, about any hydraulic brake is the have masses of stopping power but more importantly aren't subject to the vagaries of cable stretch, once properly set up they stay that way and need way less maintenance, problem is they're way heavier, which is now becoming more of an issue for me, coz lighter does mean zippier, faster and I now realise more fun.
The reason for taking the hydraulic rim brakes of the Sirrus was so I could fit it with ergoshifters, which of course wouldn't easily work with V-brakes, hence my mucking around with canti-brakes, originally fitted it with a set of SRP Mr Grumpys, but these were too nice for it so I fitted with a set of the Radiuses instead. Reason for the spare set of Radiuses was that originally was going to fit them to a tourer I built up for my brother, but I built this up with Campagnolo bits instead, which conveniently reminds me eeehhhh the answer to your problem might well be to go with a set of Campagnolo's newish V-brakes, they're designed to work with normal pull brakes and while not as lovely and exotic as the Motolites are nicely finished and in my experience work pretty well to.