Originally Posted by patentcad

If you carry 50 mph on your bicycle into a switchback curve you'll be off the edge and over the side. You might manage that maneuver on a motorcycle (if you know what you're doing) with big disc brakes and some rubber on the road, not on a racing bike with rim brakes and two 1" square contact patches. There are similarities in handling between my motorcycle and my bicycle; the biggest difference is you have some serious braking capability on a motorcycle. Bicycles don't have brakes. They have speed modulators. I doubt bicycle disc brakes would improve things all that much. Bicycles are more limited by the lack of traction available from skinny road bicycle tires.