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  • DeVlaeminck
    DeVlaeminck Posts: 9,031
    I think you've gone beyond the argument I was making with that - my point was pretty simple and that was that if the more ambitious claims for the advantages of discs are true then we should see that if we get a mix of discs and rim brakes in pro races. You say that discs have "far superior" braking which makes a "huge difference" - I hope so and if that's true we will notice it - if we can't then maybe the difference is more marginal.

    I disagree with your comment about only the pros riding at the ragged edge - if I were to get a disc braked road bike it'd be precisely because I thought it pushed the ragged edge back a bit - ymmv.
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  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    edited November 2016
    going on this mornings commute in the heavy rain ......... Rim every time, The noise from my disk brakes was just (1) Plain embarrassing (2) painful ..... the honking under heavy braking was just friggin ridiculous, there is so much crap thrown up from the road the contamination to the pads happens within about 3 miles of riding after cleaning everything up.

    HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I can only but imagine what a full Peleton descending would sound like !

    if it rains next week I am suffering knobbly tires and taking the v-braked MTB
  • homers_double
    homers_double Posts: 8,232
    I advocate, therefore I am.
    Advocate of disc brakes.
  • Hinaultscrapcousin
    Hinaultscrapcousin Posts: 647
    Fixed gear...
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:
    Fixed gear...

    Fixed gear with a disc brake. :twisted:
  • fat daddy
    fat daddy Posts: 2,605
    iPete wrote:
    Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:
    Fixed gear...

    Fixed gear with a disc brake. :twisted:

    Fixed gear with a free hub and an 11 speed cassette and a disc brake :? ;)
  • iPete
    iPete Posts: 6,076
    fat daddy wrote:
    iPete wrote:
    Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:
    Fixed gear...

    Fixed gear with a disc brake. :twisted:

    Fixed gear with a free hub and an 11 speed cassette and a disc brake :? ;)

    You mad? You'll want more than one brake for that build :wink:

    But I really do own a fixed gear with a disc.. :mrgreen:
  • Hinaultscrapcousin
    Hinaultscrapcousin Posts: 647
    iPete wrote:
    Hinaultscrapcousin wrote:
    Fixed gear...

    Fixed gear with a disc brake. :twisted:

    Converted Day One Disc, sounds good to me!

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