Road Cycling - who makes disc brake road bikes?

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jhota
03-28-04, 04:04 PM
o.k., i've been riding (just) a mountain bike for years, and want to buy another road bike.

considering i sold off/gave away my last road bikes over ten years ago, i've got a question:

having fallen in love with disc brakes on my mountain bike, who makes road bikes with disc brakes? i know they exist, but can't seem to find any.

Dv8shawn
03-28-04, 04:45 PM
You can really only find disc on cross and touring bikes from the major brands. Giant has a disc touring model, Redline and Cannondale have disc cross bikes, and there are a couple of higher-end custom types who make disc compatible. There are also a couple of flatbar commuter/townie types with discs, Kona is the only one I can remember off the top of my head.
pinky
03-28-04, 10:08 PM
Redline now makes a disc-equipped road bike

Blackberry
03-29-04, 08:32 PM
You could look into the Cannondale Bad Boy Ultra. It's an interesting bike.
Disk brake road wheels on a mtb frame. You can also switch out the wheels and put on mtb wheels. I've got one. It's fun, but I'm not crazy about flat bars on a road bike and have ended up using it mostly as a mtb bike. But if you dig flat bars, check it out.
Philby
04-05-04, 05:15 AM
who makes road bikes with disc brakes? i know they exist, but can't seem to find any.Not really a road bike, but quite nice anyway: BMC Carborazor (http://www.bmc-racing.com/bikes.cfm?lang=eng&catID=5&modID=34).
Very nice (IMHO), but very expensive, stainless steel, only made-to-measure: Marschall Alamo (http://www.marschall-framework.de/rennrad/rennrad_bild_4.html). (More here: Marschall (http://www.marschall-framework.de/frames/frame_rahmen.html) -> go to "Rennrad".