Lots of discussion regarding the spoke holder. I wonder home many of you have had to replace a spoke on the road. I taped a set of spokes on my Blackburn rack in 1979 and just took them off last year - good tape, but never used them. Seems like properly built wheels don't have spoke breakage issues, and I know of no one that has had a front break.

On the disc vs. Cantis my XTR discs on my Marin have never needed adjustment in 7 years and my BB7s on my new Salsa Vaya have been great for the first few hundred miles. Very easy to adjust and once set seem just fine - and no grinding in the rain.