Originally Posted by
brian44
Gotcha. Just regular use...training/race-bike (mainly crits). We (North Carolina) do have some mountainous terrain in western North Carolina (Mt. Mitchell, Grandfather MTN, etc.) where I feel like disc brakes would be great during the 1-mile + descents, but my time out there is relatively infrequent.
Grandfather lets bikes in? Is that free? That's a paid entrance park. If driving you stop, pay at a gate, then enter. When the family visited I didn't notice anything at the gate about it.
There's some climbs with grades in NC, but Mitchell isn't very steep. I was fine on that years ago on rim brake when I weighed a good bit more than I do now headed back down from the top down to Marion.