Originally Posted by
Ogsarg
In any case, there are millions of bikes on the roads with rim brakes and I suspect parts will be available for many years to come.
+1 on this thought.
There were only 47,000 1957 Chevrolet Bel Air's produced. That car was only produced for one year, yet you still see countless repro parts and companies dedicated to this and other classic cars. Compare this to the millions of rim-brake bicycles produced and distributed all around the world, and I doubt that we'll see and end to rim brakes in our lifetimes.
Is this like comparing apples to pineapples? Maybe for this chap...
I'll wager that he is not concerned in the least about disc brakes.