PepeM

I take the front breaks off all of my bikes. Makes them both safer (no going over the bars) and more aero.

HTupolev

How often do your bike fronts break!?

PepeM

Never since I removed them. Before, it was a 50/50 every time I went out.

PeteHski

It’s best not to talk bollocks before making statements like this, lol.

seypat

I thought the thread had run it's course. I guess I was wrong.

PepeM

We don't do no running over here.

Maelochs

It is well known among pro riders that none of them use the front brake and only have them on their bikes because Big Cycling demands it. As a rule, the cable is not actually connected to the brake, to prevent accidents. Of course, you unpaid cyclists are clueless .... except, apparently, @Calsun.

seypat

I'll shovel some more coal into the box. Let's get it rolling.

How long before we see ABS? Even more important, how long before we see the calipers painted to match the frame like on a tuner car?

Dave Mayer

Actually, discs are a competitive disadvantage, unless you are racing in some kind of made-up event which involves filling your panniers with bricks and tearing down long descents in the rain. Check the embarrassing results in the last Olympic road race... despite what must have been intense sponsor pressure, and the number of riders not on discs being reduced to less than 10, 2 of the 3 podium spots were captured by the Luddites on rim brakes.


Tubulars? to be more precise, tubulars are not 'popular', but at the highest levels of the sport, they are exclusively used by every rider on every stage in every race. Road, track, cross and even MTB. Again, the purpose of the bike industry is to sell new expensive stuff to dentists with gold cards, and weekend warriors do not want to deal with the 'mess' of gluing tires. The industry really does not want to manufacture tubular gear for tiny group that gets their stuff for free. However, clinchers are so performance and safety disadvantaged that they will never 'catch up' to tubulars, and the bike industry reluctantly has to keep making this stuff to win races.


BTW: the insurmountable problem with clinchers is not the tires, but the inferior rim profile. Heavy, fragile, causes pinch flats, poor at distributing heat, and is susceptible to excess tire inflation pressures.

tomato coupe

Did your mother abandon the family and run off with a dentist when you were a child?
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PepeM

Yes please. I need red calipers on my bike. Rear only, of course. I don't want one of those dangerous front breaks.

WhyFi

For some rotor bling, the Hope Road CL floating rotors are available in different colors and gorgeous... Well, as gorgeous as rotors can get. I'd like to try some out, but they're still difficult to find.

tempocyclist

1) I ride a lot of places and do not get thrown over the bars every time I grab the front brake lever. I must be lucky to be alive.

2) Pretty sure that wasn't even in the top 10 list of things.

3) Like every single other bike in the UK and Australia, my rear brake is cabled to the left lever as standard.

Rodrigo Kenobi

Untrue: https://cyclingtips.com/2019/07/tube...our-de-france/

I feel like I don't need to provide a link about MTB racing not using tubulars. That should be quite obvious.

spelger

I recently bought and installed drums, shoes, rotors, pads, and bearings for my '79 spitfire, but his point is well taken.

Maelochs

Much as I dislike factual information being injected into a thread like this, I did enjoy learning that particular factual information.


I knew tubulars were safer .... apparently I was mistaken in my belief that they were also faster.

That definitely makes me question all those folks who swear by tubulars in daily road riding.

big john

When I read this the only thing I can come up with is you must be kidding, just pulling our collective chains, as it were.

big john

Who needs facts on a BF thread?

matt92037

this entire post tells me you dont ride a bike.

Joearch

I am a bit surprised by this entire thread. All else aside disk brakes simply stop faster in a more uniform way than rim drakes. Certainly the case for me having both set ups.

Litespud

this is utter tripe. The first thing one learns on a road bike is that the front brake does ~75% of the braking. Hard braking with the rear pretty much guarantees a rear wheel skid with subsequent loss of control. If one can’t brake hard on the front brake without going over the bars, one should go back to Braking School.

Branko D

Oh come on, he was was just yanking your chain a bit 😉 (I hope!)

The next bit of real forum hillarity will ensue when the pro peloton switches to tubeless some years down the road (because with inserts and disc brakes, they're as safe as tubulars while offering lower rolling resistance). Expect much ire for dentists and shills of Big Tire.

PeteHski

That's what they advise for 4 year olds learning to ride their first ever bike. Removing your front brake is probably losing 75% or more of your total braking ability. I wouldn't call that "safer" for any competent rider.

Edit: apologies, reading the subsequent posts I now understand you were just taking the piss. But some people are so stupid around here that I actually thought it was for real, LOL!

PeteHski

More likely his wife did and then the dentist bought her an £11k S-Works with disc brakes and thru' axles.

PeteHski

The thing with disc brakes is that they are actually more of a benefit to the average rider than they are to the pro-peloton. Road disc brakes first started to gain popularity on endurance focused bikes (where braking function is more important than weight) before making their way onto full-on race bikes. Super-lightweight climbing race bikes being the last to make the switch for obvious reasons. So disc brakes are essentially a ground-up development and now at a stage where they are "competitive" on pretty much any bike. "Big Bike" doesn't need pro cycling to endorse disc brakes, they endorsed themselves before they even made it into the pro-peloton.

If anything it's rim brakes that are now barely clinging on due to a few pro teams still using them. In the last couple of years rim brakes have almost become an elitist badge item to say I'm "real pro" and not a "dentist with a gold card" disc brake muppet, LOL.