Originally Posted by
tomato coupe
The upside of disc brakes is not revealed in the situations where they offer tiny benefits, it is revealed in the situations where they offer more substantial benefits.
Like wet or gritty environments? Fair point.
Of course, many of us simply choose not to ride when the weather gets nasty, or we have a bike for those conditions and another one for the nice days. (My rainy/winter bike = disc brakes, which are decent. My dry weather bike = excellent rim brakes. It sure is nice living in the "first world".)