Originally Posted by
kingston
You guys are making my point for me. Sure there are outlier cases where mechanical disks work better than rim brakes. I'm talking about normal aluminum rim entry level road bikes, not half-ton vehicles or carbon wheel tandems.
You said mechanical disc brakes were terrible. I said they aren’t. My point about the half-ton was just to illustrate the stopping power, but I’d happily put the same brakes on a road bike, commuter bike, whatever. As it happens, all my other bikes are older, so are all rim brake, but if my next bike is mech disc, so be it, and if my kids only ever ride mech disc once they outgrow their current 16” wheel bikes, then that’s just fine too.