On 03/20/2018 09:04 AM, 'Clayton' via RBW Owners Bunch wrote:
Disc brakes, because I see rim brake rims and hubs being unavailable very soon
I'm sure this is a gross exaggeration, and squarely falls under the term FUD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fear,_uncertainty_and_doubt> - /Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt/. How long has it been since a new bicycle was available with 27 x 1 1/4" wheels? 35 years? More? Certainly decades. And yet, you can still buy rims and tires in that size. How long since 120mm freewheel hubs were standard on bicycles? Certainly longer than that. And yet, I'm confident if I wanted such a thing I could source hubs like that in a matter of minutes.
As it says in the Wikipedia article I linked to, "FUD is generally a strategy to influence perception by disseminating negative and dubious or false information and a manifestation of the appeal to fear <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_fear>." If you want to make the case for disc brakes, I wish you'd try to do it on the merits -- for, although I personally have no use for them in my fleet I do agree they have some merits (as well as some drawbacks that for me far outweigh any potential benefits) -- rather than appealing to fear.
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