10-05-2020, 07:35 AM
Hi Ian, thanks for your response to this. I think my own position is influenced by currently running two late Sevens ( 1937 0pal, 1938 special) both of which brake well on standard cable system.
Casting my mind back to earlier days and earlier made Sevens I do remember struggling to get brakes to both work and pull you up in a vaguely straight line. In fact my first car, the Cambridge special featured in a post here recently, had Bowdenex — in conjunction with the Cambridge IFS. It’s too long ago to remember how well it stopped. The new owner Peter Yates Who is restoring it might tell us in due course!
Charles
Casting my mind back to earlier days and earlier made Sevens I do remember struggling to get brakes to both work and pull you up in a vaguely straight line. In fact my first car, the Cambridge special featured in a post here recently, had Bowdenex — in conjunction with the Cambridge IFS. It’s too long ago to remember how well it stopped. The new owner Peter Yates Who is restoring it might tell us in due course!
Charles