You cant really generalise though. The vast majority of vee brakes ARE worse than maguras particularly those with modulator things (wtf are they about? lol) An avid something or other would work well. Im not much of an expert on vee brakes I must admit, but I know someone who had one set up so awesome, it had a similar bite to a disc Obviously I was very startled when I pulled the brake lol Basically So long as you get a good vee brake, and set it up well, it can give similar results to a magura (in my opinion) however I wouldn't trust it as much as the cable would stretch