Originally Posted by
Rides4Beer
Aesthetics are purely personal, but discs with integrated hoses look waaaaay better than rim brakes, imo. The discs/calipers become part of the system and look like they belong there, instead of rim brakes looking like they were an afterthought, just bolted on after the bike was designed.
Definitely a personal choice - Disc are ugly and barbaric looking on a road bike. It's the rotors more than anything although the calipers always look like a piled up aluminum turd that got slapped on top of some nice carbon. They look better than they did for sure and we will get used to them but 100% for me they are ugly and will always stand out.
I want to ride road...not shred the gnar on some wicked trails. It's like throwing a pair of big knobbies on there as well. Of course that's also all the rage these day. Meh... back to work.