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old school brakes question...

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generallee:
heres something thats been making me wonder...

I have an 89 GT Freestyle Tour frame, usa made, from 1989 - and it has u brake lugs under the chainstays... I know that some haros, I think the rs2 also had u brake mounts for a while in the 80's....
I remember owning from new a 91 gt freestyke tour frame that had caliper mounting only... so im wondering, why did manafacturers put u brake lugs on in the late80's, [which obviously give you better braking peformance - still used today!] then revert back and take a backwards step in my opinion by taking them off again - i remeber waiting for u brake lugs to come back in in the early 90's so I could actually stop my bike again!

dialledbikes:
First time I saw U-brake lugs on any bike was in 1990 when I bought a GT Tequesta mountain bike.  Most other MTB companies were using canti-lever brakes, but GT used U-brakes.

I didn't realise GT used U-brakes on BMX bikes in the 80's then stopped using them again until the mid-90s.

generallee:
yep - and haro seemed to do the same too i think?

CD17:
I have an 88 master with U brake mounts, but I think they started to use them in late 87.

I was thinking the same thing, as my 1990 Master does not have them  :-\  it could have been as a money saving thing, as BMX became less popular in the late 80s early 90s

almasterb:
I heard somewhere there was a shortage of Dia Compe 990 brakes at the time? The mid 88 Haros didn't have them either.

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