Rim or disk brakes?
05-10-21, 10:29 AM
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Guess what?
*Whispers* "Come over here"
"Rims...ARE a disc."
Problem solved, you're welcome.
*Whispers* "Come over here"
"Rims...ARE a disc."
Problem solved, you're welcome.
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05-10-21, 10:31 AM
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Feet are best.
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05-10-21, 02:01 PM
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05-10-21, 02:13 PM
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05-10-21, 02:47 PM
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If in doubt, just get a bike with a disk in front, and rim brakes in the rear. Or vise-versa. Walmart has (or they used to have) bikes with just this setup. Not sure what they were trying to accomplish with that arrangement though.
05-10-21, 03:52 PM
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05-10-21, 05:31 PM
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My excuse is that’s a Ringle front hub on a wheel I built.
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05-10-21, 05:42 PM
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Something about the feel of hydraulic disc is just much nicer IMO. Plus if your rim is slightly out of true it won't affect the drag braking.
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05-10-21, 10:44 PM
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For sheer stopping power in the wet, disks are unbeatable
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05-11-21, 05:57 AM
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05-11-21, 09:01 AM
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Really doesn't matter. Unless you are buying a department store bike, the switch is being made to disc brakes on all bikes in the line up from the major manufactuers. The road bike industry was slow to get on board but they finally started seeing the light.
05-11-21, 10:54 AM
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Unless you're living in mountain country, the differences are not as marked. On fast descents, hydraulic discs stop better with a lot more modulation. If rainy weather too, discs are just superior, by far. In Florida, it doesn't matter. Rim brakes are lighter and simpler so there are those benefits on the road. I do have a rim brake road bike. I don't particularly like it (even with alloy rims) on steep descents when it rains. Rims brakes don't exist on any mountain bike worth mentioning and prob not on 99% of gravel bikes now. It is interesting how suddenly discs took over in the road bike world. These last 2-3 years has seen every mainstream and many boutique manufacturers/builders producing and selling disc bikes.
05-11-21, 08:26 PM
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05-11-21, 08:31 PM
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Disc, for me
05-12-21, 03:12 AM
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But if your rim is slightly out of true with rim brakes it's easy to true it with the wheel on the bike, just center it between the pads. You can pull over to the side of the road and do it in 2 minutes or less.
05-12-21, 05:06 AM
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This is a fact that can be classified as "trivially true". So? There's different types of disc brakes, and we compare their characteristics and performance all of the time.
What "problem" do you imagine you solved?
05-12-21, 05:54 AM
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He solved the problem of the lack of trivial and useless knowledge.being presented in this thread.
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05-12-21, 06:11 AM
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Not surprising. They are lighter and more compact now these days. It was only a matter of time. Disc brakes are used on autos, motorcycles, and mountain bikes, which speaks to their superior stopping power.
05-12-21, 06:56 AM
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But with disc brakes you don't have to pull over to the side of the road and waste 2 minutes of your time to true the wheel. Disc Brakes are unaffected even when the wheel is not true. Disc for the win.
05-12-21, 07:16 AM
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Yeah, we have known this in the mountain biking world for decades. The modulation is not mentioned as much. On steep descents with fast and sudden curves, the modulation really helps carefully but quickly feather the. brakes and scrub speed without overdoing it. Now that they are even lighter, it is a no brainer for places like Colorado.
05-12-21, 07:42 AM
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And when I do it the rim isn't so out of true that it's actually dragging on the brake pad. I can just see the wobble when I look down and it bugs me so I pull over and fix it.
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I think it's going to go over to discs because it's cheaper to have production lines that produce one kind of frame instead of two. It will have very little to do with the relative qualities of the different kinds of brakes but rather the demand for them.
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