700cc with disk brakes

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  • il_principe
    il_principe Posts: 9,155
    meanwhile wrote:

    The point to discs is that they give instant full on braking in the rain - there's a real delay with rim brakes, although it can be reduced with the right pads. (Apparently you haven't noticed this, but this sort of thing has ceased to surprise me.) That's not an advantage in a race - certainly not enough to compensate for the weight of a heavier braking system - but races don't take place in traffic. If a car door opens in front of you in heavy rain, the discs and competent braking skills may save your life.

    Primary, wet weather pads and decent brakes are all you need. The OP has already admitted he's not using particularly great brakes in the first place. Good riding and braking skills combined with decent brakes are all you need on a commute. If you are sprinting fast enough to kill yourself along a line of parked cars in heavy rain then quite frankly you shouldn't be on a bike in the first place. It's a tenuous argument. If roadbikes needed disc brakes that badly then they would be standard. Oh and insulting my inability to observe the braking abilities of my rim brakes is a fairly poor way to conduct a debate. I've been commuting in london for i dunno or 7 years now, in all weather save snow (because of ice not brakes) and I have never had an issue when
    I could not stop quickly and safely enough.

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