Originally Posted by
HillRider
No, not any more. There are now rims made with no specific brake tracks and are intended for use only with disc brakes. Look at the rim and see if there are obvious brake tracks, particularly machined ones. If the rim sidewalls are smoothly curved with no apparent flat faces for the brake shoes to ride on it's intended for disc brakes only.
It's not all that obvious on some rims that they're not intended for rim brakes, at least regarding the shape of the rim. This rim has what might look like a brake surface at first glance, but the area that would be the brake surface is really too narrow for a brake pad.
