I find it surprisingly not surprising at all much of the bike biz has gone hog wild for disc brakes. I actually prefer to brake as little and as light as possible, and I live in area where there are many 1 mile and under steep and curvy rolly polly hills to ride on. I drive my pickup the same way. On my '99 F150 which I bought brand new I went about 70,000 miles on the original brakes, despite to get into town and go anywhere it's pure roller coaster hills up and down. I let the bike and car roll downhill , and just apply brakes intuitively entering corners for the inherent line that reveals itself.
Some of my way back roads are in very poor condition and many not maintained in winter, and they all tend to be with very steep hills. Going down can be harem scarem at times for sure, since they are usually sparse to dense gravel/rock over a very irregular hard "road" and sometimes not-a-road surface. Sure disc brakes may make it seem not so skittish, idk, but I ride these roads so infrequently it hardly warrants buying a bike with discs just to test it. When I rode all those years on my Stumpie however, I never had a problem with rim braking down loose rocky hill trails and often cow paths on ranches where no bicycle has been. So . . .. much ado about nothing. Everyone is different of course, some like to brake/accelerate aggressive/hard everywhere , and that's alright certainly, I just have never been that way. If someone wants a Riv-like bike with disc brakes that bad there are plenty of custom frame builders to do so for you. But if you have experience with different builders/designers of anything it's quite apparent they will make only what they agrees with their own sensibilities, which is a good thing because thus feel free to make what they'd love to make and use themselves and in doing so make it very well. When you have no personal connection to what you are designing/making it just doesn't have that intangible quality I cannot find a word for, it's just one of those you experience. So when I ride a Riv design I ride a Riv designed frame, and I know what to expect, and I take it or leave it I like that . -- 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 rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
