Eric, I did mention in my post that I own two disc brake-equipped bikes – one rather fanciful full hydraulic and one plain-jane mechanical. So yes, I have used disc brakes. Both disc brake setups perform fine, but the point is I seldom wish I have disc brakes when riding my rim brake bikes, with the main exception being rainy days when the scratching sound of contaminated pads-on-rims really irritates me. For me, discs don't really offer better modulation than my rim brakes (that I've spent effort setting up to my liking).
On Saturday, May 14, 2016 at 5:20:54 PM UTC-7, Eric Daume wrote: > > Have you ridden with discs? Because they do work better. Period. Not even > in terms of absolute power, but the modulation of hydraulic discs is a > wonderful feeling. > > On Sat, May 14, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Benz, Sunnyvale, CA <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 9:30:44 AM UTC-7, Mark Reimer wrote: >>> >>> The big push for discs is because they work better, period. Some people >>> are happy to have brakes that work 'well enough'. Like I said before, if I >>> always rode in fair weather, I too wouldn't care about having discs. But if >>> you ride in snow, rain, wet mud, swampy terrain, etc, it becomes very >>> obvious, very quickly, how rim brakes fall short. >>> >> >> I disagree that the big push for discs is because they work better. Discs >> are being pushed simply because manufacturers need something new and >> different to sell in this stagnate market. You, I and most people on this >> Google group aren't the majority of the customers for the bicycle industry. >> Make no mistake – we are the tiny minority of cycling nuts (I wear that >> badge with pride). The majority of cycling industry customers aren't >> pushing their bicycles to the limit. In fact, I suspect the majority of >> cycling industry customers won't be riding in the rain, and they won't be >> touring with stuffed panniers. They are the fair weather cyclists whose >> bikes probably won't even need a brake pad change while in their possession. >> >> These customers buy stuff because it's novel and cool, but not >> necessarily because it works better. A lot of them probably buy by bullet >> points – Disc brakes? Check. Minimum dual 5" suspension? Check. 27.5" >> wheels? Check. Wheels that can save 5 seconds off a 40-km time trial? >> Check. Now, there's nothing wrong with that, but let's not fool ourselves >> by claiming that disc brakes are pushed because they work better. Indeed, >> manufacturers won't be bothered with disc brakes, if the target market only >> consists of people who can functionally benefit from them. And yes, I'm an >> all-weather commuter (albeit in Northern CA) who has two disc-equipped >> bikes, so I'm demonstrably not anti-disc. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <javascript:>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
