Everything is a compromise, choose the best one for you.
Floating brakes I find are good if you're not riding often and in the zone so to speak. If you're riding regularily, I find more squat makes the rear end more acurate feeling, and if you're in control and riding agressively, the rear skipping doesn't concern you as much as you're muscling the bike along with your momentum, confidence and power more than just hanging on cruising through the "chunder".
This is from my high single pivot riding perspective, but that's an exagerated view of most designs anyway.
Ideally a floater with controlled squat like DW described would be ideal on a high single pivot, but again, the weight gain probably makes the compromise tip the wrong way on my scale anyway.
The floater with different mounts on the Balfa BB7 was a handy idea.
Again as DW and others mentioned, all designs can be made to act differently when braking, some easier than others.
Floating brakes I find are good if you're not riding often and in the zone so to speak. If you're riding regularily, I find more squat makes the rear end more acurate feeling, and if you're in control and riding agressively, the rear skipping doesn't concern you as much as you're muscling the bike along with your momentum, confidence and power more than just hanging on cruising through the "chunder".
This is from my high single pivot riding perspective, but that's an exagerated view of most designs anyway.
Ideally a floater with controlled squat like DW described would be ideal on a high single pivot, but again, the weight gain probably makes the compromise tip the wrong way on my scale anyway.
The floater with different mounts on the Balfa BB7 was a handy idea.
Again as DW and others mentioned, all designs can be made to act differently when braking, some easier than others.
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