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Old February 6th 19, 05:12 AM posted to rec.bicycles.tech
Radey Shouman
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Default Disk brakes might be useful

Sir Ridesalot writes:

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 7:49:50 PM UTC-5, Radey Shouman wrote:
Sir Ridesalot writes:

On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 2:09:28 PM UTC-5, Radey Shouman wrote:
Sir Ridesalot writes:

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What causes you to eventually discard rims? Do they just last forever?
Truly we must live in different worlds.

I just don't get how some people have such drastic problems with rims
wearing out.

Not sure what you mean by "drastic". Rims are a wear item.

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If I get rid of a rim it's usually because it's been bent.

What I mean by "drastic" is people like Joerg who have to replace a
rim because it was worn through by rim brakes withing 1000
miles. Based on MY experience riding on dirt roads, touring with 40
pounds of gear on logging roads for 2 weeks at a time, and riding in
the rain and riding through the winter 1000 miles seems quite a low
number of miles for a pair of rims. I wonder if Joerg rides the
brakes?


I agree that 1000 miles seems a very short life for a rim. But I didn't
say that, and Joerg didn't bring it up, why did you?

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I brought up 1000 miles = worn out rims? No, Joerg brought it up when he stated in a post:


I suggest you might have followed up his post, then.

"Joerg
1:06 PM (7 hours ago)
On 2019-02-05 09:51, Sir Ridesalot wrote:
On Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 11:24:20 AM UTC-5, Joerg wrote:

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"Well, the rims on my 1st MTB were nearly shot after the first 1000mi of
foul weather riding. Most of the time I reached on on soggy winter trail
rides there was this goose bump eliciting sandpaper noise."

Needless to say, the next MTB had disc brakes and none of this is
happening now. Why should people put up with inferior components if
there are better ones that even reduce cost per mile over the years?

If disc brakes are your thing that's fine, but like so many things
disc brakes are NOT needed by everyone who does heavy use riding in
the rain, on dirt roads or even off roads.

Cheers


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