They stopped so well and were somewhat affordable vs Paul Mini Motos (also excellent). Despite people basically throwing away rim brake frames, there’s still a ton of them.
On a related note, if anyone is selling a set of these, happy to take them off your hands! Specifically the TRP CX8.4s, which are the SRAM lever compatible.
by MagnesiumAddiction
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Almost universally, if a company stops selling something, it’s because people stopped buying it.
The market for high end MTB rim brakes is like 20 people per year.
Most people who could buy those have updated to disc brakes by now
You can find them on eBay, but they’re not cheap: $125 for a used pair. $275 for NOS.
Comparable Tektros will be fine.
I have these on my Cross Check and they’re sooo nice!
Cuz they suck. Sorry
Check out Velo Orange’s canti brakes. Fabulous.
Dia Compe have road v brakes too
I have these and I love them, but also considering upgrading to discs as the bike in question has the mounting points on the wheels and the frame and fork
Genuinely curious: Aside from aesthics and presumeably weight, what is the draw here?
I’ve run different levels of V-brakes on bikes for close to 30 years. They all worked very very well in terms of stopping power. And never really noticed a difference in terms of modulation or “feel” whether they were $15 sets from Amazon or Shimano XTR.
I don’t think they perform differently than basically any other decent Mini-V brake.
u/MagnesiumAddiction They were reasonably priced because they could be sold in great enough numbers to take advantage of economies of scale, with disc brakes being the SOP now, they can not achieve economies of scale, and based on their previous price point thye would be hard pressed to sell them at a higher price point that would cover their cost of manufacturing and still turn a profit.
This is why a lot fo great things are never even produced, market forces wont allow enough profit for the effore to be worth it.
Hot take perhaps but the Avid Arch Rival was the height of rim brakes for me.
I think it’s because any high end bike has been using disc brakes for the last 20 something years. Especially off-road bikes
Id take a set of decent set up Vs over the shitty mechanical discs bikes are coming with now
They were for cyclocross and most cross bikes are disc now
I don’t know about that exact model but for the Shimano-lever-canti-compatible mini vs I used to use, the TRP version was literally just the Tektro version with a little more machining and a nicer finish, and the Tektros cost £7, so pretty much nobody bought the TRP version. Lots of people have a use for vs but most people with money don’t.
Is OP really asking why in TYOOL 2026 nobody is making high end CX V- brakes?