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They were unique, back in the mid 1980s when they were a popular choice for testers. Not only are the pads unlike anything else, and fixed to the arms by an eccentric adjuster which means substituting something more modern needs a bit of ingenuity, but the reach was so short that you pretty much had to have your frame custom built to accept them, and putting a normal 39mm 'short' reach brake in their place sometimes requires filing of the top of the pad adjuster slots on the new brake to get the pad high enough.

Yellow Jersey are listing the pads as in stock at $50/pr
http://www.yellowjersey.org/vinbrake.html
Their web presence is probably best described as retro like their stock, but if you phone them you're likely to be able to talk to somebody who has a clue, another retro feature :-)

amazing, i looked and asked everywhere for these of a period of a few months hoping to trace a few, but i got nothing. Cheers.