RG> I have cantilever brakes on my touring bike. I find 
 RG> though that they don't do a good job stopping when 
 RG> the bike is fully loaded. I tried changing the 
 
I found that cantilever brakes didn't do a good job stopping whether my bike 
was fully loaded, unloaded, in the rain, in the dry... never.
I removed them and put side-pull caliper brakes on the bike.  Now it will 
stop.  Stopping is good.  Helps to avoid crashing into things.  :-)
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