Originally Posted by
smd4
That's why I don't ride in the rain. My brakes work great.
Which begs the question: Is there something about rainwater today that makes it significantly more slippery than it used to be 10, 20, or 30 years ago? We all used to ride with rim brakes in all kinds of weather back then, and we all lived to talk about it in this forum today.
Another question: Do any statistics exist as to how many cyclists died exactly because they had rim brakes? Would those deceased cyclists have survived if they had been running disk brakes instead of rim brakes?