Originally Posted by
coffeecake
Ha, I had a bike shop employee (well, not really a bike shop, more of an 'outdoors store') try to convince me and my friend that 'disc brakes are the future, in two years ALL bikes will have disc brakes'.
Originally Posted by
tatfiend
IMO you will not see disc brakes taking over on road bikes due to weight compared to dual pivot caliper brakes. I believed that discs are forbidden for most cyclocross racing too.
Yeah, and we were looking at cyclocross bikes when he said this. I refrained from pointing out that disc brakes are verboten in most cross races. I guess he must have been more of a mountain biker...or maybe he was the guy who just sharpens the skates.