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 includes 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 probably depends on your use case, personally I found wet gritty MTB
rides shredded pads on Canti back in the day, and CX bikes until recently.
Disc pads particularly sintered last a fair bit 3k on the gravel bike and
commute bike, MTB hugely varied though it’s a much more capable than the
old rim MTB I used and thus gets used harder so not a terribly fair
comparison.
I’ve had some cheap rack on my old MTB for commute for few years, now disc
ones aren’t a problem, there have been discs for over 10 years now it’s
mildly new for road bikes but for MTBs it’s old tech it’s self!
Roger Merriman