Originally Posted by K&M
It's nice to know our current brakes will get us down that kind of hill when necessary, but if we were doing that on a regular basis I think we'd definitely be considering a drum.
Disc brakes work and work effectively. Never had a problem on downhills as we use the accepted method with disc brakes of letting speed build up- then braking hard to bring speed down- when speed builds up again, we brake hard again. Then again we have never taken in the mountainous drops that some people have to. If a constant brake to keep speed down is required, then Disc brakes are not the ideal.