Mark Noble, Ride UK september 2006 : When Dia Compe launched the U-brake it was initially used on mountainbikes at the start of the eighties, prior to MTBs switching to the V-brake - and Haro were the first company to turn on to its far superior power compared to a standard calliper brake, and they placed U-brake lugs on their bikes way back in 1987. So, twenty years of use on a BMX bike has proven that the U-brake is the definitive stopping device for BMX. Two decades of solid braking... and yet, still we see bikes with haggered U-brakes that are about as effective and with as much stopping power as rubbing tissue paper on the tyre.
