Originally Posted by
SamAdam
Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I think I'd rather stick to mechanical disk brakes, for simplicity of maintenance and possible replacement. Trek's PDX is a lower-quality option, and I wonder how the Kona stacks up to the PDX, given the lower price.
Time to buy a bike!
I have a Kona Dew Plus. My only complaints with it are:
- cheap paint quality - with daily locking it looks rather beaten
- disc brake install on them are not that great by design, they have some flex to them, and the fix suggested by the LBS was too expensive to bother with. So probably just stop as well as decent rim brakes. However the advantage of not wearing out your rim in crappy weather is a bonus.