Advice needed - replacing ancient brakes on even more ancient MTB?

[lph]

I don't know if you can do so on all mtbs, but we have done so on at least one. You'll need new brake levers too, I think, because v-brakes pull more cable than calipers. New brakes are cheap, even cheaper if you buy used. Go for it. Reviving old bikes is so much fun :-)

PS. If you have a mtb with v-brakes already you can check, by just switching over a brake and seeing if you can get the brake pad to hit at the right spot. Brakes are really easy to move around and adjust, if you just pay attention to what you're doing and take pictures every now and then it's hard to do anything wrong.

[finnporter]

Thanks for the fast reply. I'm absolutely going for it. I'm just wondering how much at once I'll have to do.

Theoretically, I could take the V-brakes off any of the other bikes in the bike room of our building, but I'm not sure I'd make any friends there.

The thing is that I have just learned that my brakes are called cantilever and not caliper...that might make a difference...

[lph]

yup, I meant cantilever too. That's what we've switched.