On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 11:10:49 PM UTC-7, Tosspot wrote:
On 3/11/19 1:24 AM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/10/2019 6:38 PM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 4:48:00 PM UTC+1, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 11:22:10 AM UTC-4, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 3/10/2019 11:07 AM, wrote:
On Sunday, March 10, 2019 at 2:34:24 PM UTC+1,
wrote:
I keep reading see all the bikes coming out and basically all disc
brakes. I cannot believe rim brakes are going to be gone but maybe
I am just kidding myself. I frankly hate the disc brake look and
certainly for a long time parts will be around but are these rim
brakes a dead deal.

Deacon Mark

Try to find a ATB without disc brakes. I think that is also gonna
happen with road bikes.

Fashion is weird and powerful.

--
- Frank Krygowski

A few years ago I nearly bought a new disc brake equipped MTB when my
buddy bought his Da Vinci disc brake equipped MTB. However, after
having seen how his bike ate disc brake pads I decide not to replace
my old MTB after all.

I wonder how the cost of replacement disc brake pads over a number of
years compares to the cost of a new rim over those same number of
years? I've never worn out an MTB rim but my buddy was going thorough
a pair of disc brake pads every week or so and that was just from
riding or paved roads or crushed limestone stone dust rail-trails. He
was NOT using the brakes all that much either.

Three bicycle shops here in town could not figure out why his bike
ate pads so fast and that includesÂ* the shop that specializes in
cyclo-cross and MTB trails and has a cyclo-cross team.

Just weird. Rim brakes are fine for a lot of bicyclists yet it seems
that once again a choice will eventually be denied to consumers.

On top of that, if your present bicycle is equipped with racks you'll
most likely have to buy new ones that are disc brake compatible if
you do buy a new bike. Those new racks aren't that cheap either.

Cheers

That is an unusual wear of pads.

I've said this before, but if you're heading out on a long tour with a
disc brake bike, take extra pads. We hosted a guy whose pads suddenly
wore out during a tour, leaving him without brakes until he could find a
bike shop on his route.

I'm wearing out discs (every 4 years) faster than pads. What am I doing
wrong?


I wore out three sets of pads in a number of weeks and they deformed the disks that it was causing accelerated wear. Groves had been burned into the disks. Now these were from 2008 but when I bought the bike it hasn't really been used at all. Perhaps materials have been changed but on my CX bike I have had to change pads in only 300 miles or so. Though there isn't any severe marking on the disks neither have I ridden it all that hard through rather extreme off-road.