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Look like original Avid Tri A-line brakes
Those look like a set of onza canti brakes.
Marinovative ?
looks like a paul stoplight mc
I’ve got a pair of red ones in my “box of shit I refuse to get ride of ever.”
Also in photo, stock Tri Dangle.
I was thinking onza’s but it seems to me that they only had the one brake post bolt, not two….. Could they be a set of Paul’s?
I’ll say Avid tri align III too
Avid Tri-Aligns, front wheel specifically (rear’s were a little shorter for better heal clearance). Best cantilever brakes I’ve ever ridden. Have a set on each of my cross bikes.
Paul’s…..
Definitely an Avid Tri Align with the Tri Dangle and Kool Stop Eagle Claw pads
That are a set of Avid Tri Aling canti’s, had them on my bike for years!! Great brakes!!
Definitely Avid Tri-Aligns. The Tri-Dangle gives it away if the rest doesn’t… I still have some purple tri-dangles on my ‘cross bike.
Those brakes are sexy
Definitely Avid Tri-aligns. Notice how the spring adjustment is very similar to the current Avid Ultimate brakes. I had a pair of those years ago and loved them.
I think are Grafton’s.
Avid Tri Align with the Tri Dangle , I agree, the best canti ever made.
The only ones I was able to set up perfectly.
Yup. Avid Tri-Aligns. Now can I have them?
I still have a pair of these installed on my 1990 Merlin frame, which I converted to SS. Work nice with Mavic ceramic rims and a pair of blue ano Altek levers. Old skool goodness.
They’re NOT OnZa brakes. I have a bag of those in my ‘bin o stuff’ Some of em are even useable! IOW the pad holders haven’t cracked. VERY easy to set up.
Avid Tri Align, I once had a pair in purple
Those little tri-dangles sure started a big company.
this an old school canti-brake – named paul´s brake. cool …
old school short post Tri-Aligns
soes with buzz saws, porcupines, in the day Suntour MicroDrive, and Cook Bros eCranks
Of course, Avid Tri Align! So beautiful and easy do install!!
Graftons brake levers were blades with holes and onza did have the same design to rhe brake mount and brake pads.
Avid Tri Align! Better than V’s…
Avid Tri-align judiging by the length front brakes! There still running strong on my Attitude with Ultimate levers offcourse!
Avid Tri-To-Align. Ha.
Avid Tri Align with Tri Dangles
Pauls brakes….awesome goodness. These bad boys were some of the most expensive cantis around back in the day
Avid!!
Answer from Jeff at First Flight Bicycles: “Avid Tri-Align Brakes”
They look like Gravity Research Pipe Dreams, or where they Rim Crushers? Avid Tri Dangle and some Kool Stop pads. I figure they are from around ’93.
Marin lites. From Marin Bicycles. Nice brakes!
@sprinting4signs – the Gravity Research Pipe Dreams were squared off on the top and seems to me, I recall they had 1 adjusting screw for the post and one for the pad, not two together like these. The PipeDreams were AWESOME. My bike with them on there was stolen several years back…that’s one of the things I do miss.