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Old 03-10-11 | 11:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Commodus
Discs are also better in the dry. Sheesh.
I have discs on a mountain bike, v-brakes on a mountain bike, cantilevers on a couple of road bikes and standard calipers on a road bike. They all stop the bikes. They all stop the bikes in the same distance. They are all capable of lifting the rear tire which is the ultimate test of stopping power of a set of brakes. Discs don't do anything better that the rim brakes.
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