On 2018-04-27 10:57, jbeattie wrote:
On Friday, April 27, 2018 at 8:27:49 AM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote:
On 4/27/2018 9:00 AM, Joerg wrote:
On 2018-04-26 15:40, Roger Merriman wrote:

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I can remember wearing pads out on Canti MTB in single ride if
it was very wet/gritty area.


That is one of the reasons why I'd never buy any new bike with
rim brakes. Some roads in our area are either unpaved, gravel or
connect to a gravel road section and thus have a lot of dust on
them. However, my road bike was built in 1982 and there were no
disc brakes available, at least not in Europe.


Shimano's was around 1976 IIRC:
https://bmxmuseum.com/forsale/248919

Phil Wood 1974. http://www.philwood.com/about/txthist.php RIP Phil.

There is no need for disc brakes for dry weather road riding, even on
"dusty" roads and occasional single track or urban trail. It's a
solution in search of a problem. My rim brakes work fine in wet
weather, ...


Work fine?


... but I prefer discs because of rim wear and better wet
braking.


Yet now they are worse than disc brakes? To me brakes are among the most
impoprtant parts on a vehicle. I want top performance from them, not a
"somewhat ok" performance.

Thing is, one doesn't always know if the weather turns foul during a
long ride and then I don't want to have to pussyfoot it back home
because of sub-par brakes.


... I switch between disc and direct mount caliper brakes on
the weekends and find that braking is great on both.


Thanks for the hint about the Koolstop pads. They just came. Ebay
tracking is a nice "mail is here" alert. It came early today.

They fit like a glove. I wonder why they now flare the trailing edge
inwards towards the rim. It would make the pad want to skew. Maybe I'll
grind that off.

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Regards, Joerg

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