How does a cross bike frame handle on long road rides?

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Hey RDV4, is there any reason to be concerned about canti brakes on those long and fast descents? I've heard it mentioned that brake shudder can be in issue (even in this thread it came up).

It doesn't sound like it should be an issue. I've got friends that do huge bike tours fully loaded with panniers and whatever and they do steep descents all the time with canti brakes and I've never heard it mentioned that there might be anything sketchy about it.

That shudder happened a lot with the early incarnations of when carbon CX forks where basically a road fork with canti bosses on em, not so much anymore, reinforced in all the right places now. Usually if shudder does happen it's during low speed braking anyway. Newer frame and fork designs with tapered head tubes, beefier fork blades and crowns have pretty much solved it. Last time I had a shudder on a CX bike was back in 2005 or 6 on a Guerciotti with a carbon fork, all I did to resolve it was readjust the pads.