Disc Brake Road Frame

hammond1975

Anyone got any ideas for a good road frame to run disc brakes, looking at building something nice and have all the parts ready to go.

meanredspider

www.volagi.com - nearly 4 years with mine and I love it.

You probably need to help a little by giving some idea of your budget

wotnoshoeseh

Equilibrium ??

ugo.santalucia

IMO the only point that matters is how much clearance you have at the fork and rear stays. If you have the same limitations as a normal road frame, then the frame is pointless... if you can fit 30 mm tyres or even 32, then it becomes interesting. Once you can use big tyres, you can get out of the busy road system and have more fun.
Therefore I would probably look at a cyclocross frame, rather than a road one. Also, road frames are designed around 140 mm rotors, which are a bit undersized.

Right now I like the Ritchey Swiss cross disc rather a lot...

bendertherobot

The Ritchey Swiss Cross is, IMO, just about the only bike a person might ever need. Almost totally negates N+1. IF I could have got one when I got my Road Logic then it was a bike I would have had. It's possible that I still might in due course.

If you really want to build something nice then that, or as MRS suggested, something like the Volagi are good options.

There are many out there. The new Genesis Equilibriums are very reasonably priced.

If you want a bike you can turn up to just about anything on and a) love riding it and b) have people drool then just get the Swiss Cross. Get some handbuilts. Stick Force, Red, Athena on it. And some TRP Spyres. Then adore it, forever.

bendertherobot

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meanredspider

ugo.santalucia wrote:

IMO the only point that matters is how much clearance you have at the fork and rear stays. If you have the same limitations as a normal road frame, then the frame is pointless... if you can fit 30 mm tyres or even 32, then it becomes interesting. Once you can use big tyres, you can get out of the busy road system and have more fun.
Therefore I would probably look at a cyclocross frame, rather than a road one. Also, road frames are designed around 140 mm rotors, which are a bit undersized.

Right now I like the Ritchey Swiss cross disc rather a lot...

The Volagi (Liscio) would easily take 32mm (I think it's designed to take 32mm WITH guards - for which it has mounts). It also runs a 160mm rotor up front (140 on the rear but, in extremis, rear brakes are pretty useless). It's a "proper" road bike too though I often get asked if it's a CXer. Added to which it's very fast (I'm no faster on my Scott Foil). Descending, I'm the only guy around here to beat most of stage racers' times on one particular long straight descent.

Volagi also do the Viaje - a steel or Ti bike that will take huge tyres and is designed as a "go anywhere" bike - it's definitely on my shopping list because there are so many fire roads up here - I think it will take 42mm tyres.

Ber Nard

ugo.santalucia wrote:

IMO the only point that matters is how much clearance you have at the fork and rear stays. If you have the same limitations as a normal road frame, then the frame is pointless...

Nonsense. You seem obsessed with the notion disc brakes have no purpose but to allow a bike to go off road. CX bikes have allowed people to do that for decades. Perhaps, just perhaps, someone wants discs on a bike that will only be ridden on the road? There's no need for big clearances and high bottom brackets.

ugo.santalucia wrote:

Also, road frames are designed around 140 mm rotors, which are a bit undersized.

But have the bonus of allowing you to run 140mm discs which seems to be what Shimano are pushing. If you want to use bigger discs, buy a readily available, cheap adaptor.

mfin

Ber Nard wrote:

ugo.santalucia wrote:

IMO the only point that matters is how much clearance you have at the fork and rear stays. If you have the same limitations as a normal road frame, then the frame is pointless...

Nonsense. You seem obsessed with the notion disc brakes have no purpose but to allow a bike to go off road. CX bikes have allowed people to do that for decades. Perhaps, just perhaps, someone wants discs on a bike that will only be ridden on the road? There's no need for big clearances and high bottom brackets.

On road bikes they can be good for overweight people. Also, they sort of have their place safety-wise for people who commute in the wet on busy roads, and even more if those people are overweight (or plain heavier, like 6ft 6 people tend to be).

They will become the norm for everyone though in time, a bit more hassle if you build up your own bikes though.

cycleclinic

Equilibrium disc clearance for 31mm tyres 160mm rotors too
Deda ran disc clearnace unknown but it could be large due to lack of a caliper brake - also designed around 160mm rotors I belive.

Most disc brake frame will have larger clearance that the caliper brake frame offer and many are deisgned around 160mm rotors. I would not fit 140mm rotors to anyone bikes.

The trek doame disc whatever its called I don't really care, is a carbon frame which has clearance for wide tyres (30mm) and I think it use 160mm rotors as well. I maybe wrong about the rotors but the tyre clearance is a definate trend. That is also why all the road disc rims are 25mm wide.

hammond1975

Thanks all, I have a Roubaix SL4 disc frame at the moment but due to size issues I am 50 / 50 on keeping it.

I already have a Genesis Equilibrium but just wondered what other options were available if I did decide to part with the Roubaix.

zak3737

Let me know about the Roubaix frame if you decide to part with it ?! What size / Colour ?
Like the thought of a Disc build !

I picked up a 2011 SL2 Roubaix in the summer, which is doing me fine so far,.....but N+1 an' all that ;-)