While disc brakes are the most "modern" brakes they are not 'new' at all.
What they are is a re-invention of the rim brakes to seperate you from a
few more bucks. Yep, that right "rim" brakes are , in effect, "disk" brakes
because they use the rim in place of a disc to stop the bike.
When you consider the level of mechanical complexity that "disc" brakes
add to a bike , to me, they are just gee whiz without adding any real $$
value to the bike. To me all they add is cost & weight.
Rim brakes work & work very well 99.999% of the time while being
very user friendly. There is no real advantage to "disc" brakes on a
bicycle at all.
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My preferred bicycle brand is.......WORKSMAN CYCLES
I dislike clipless pedals on any city bike since I feel they are unsafe.
Originally Posted by krazygluon
Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred, which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?