Originally Posted by
fietsbob
Standing on 2 legs and coming down from the trees was a risk for our ancestors
but it caught on ,as a fad.
fair weather sport rider, and counting grams on that racer style bike ,
go with rim brakes .
daily transportation want the thing to stop even in dreadful weather ,
and not have to replace the rims in a few years as the aluminum is ground thin ,
by gritty water, get disc brakes ..
It took many years for disk brakes to be incorporated into cars. At first they were only installed on high end performance cars. Then as they began to be installed on non-performance vehicles they were still only installed on the front of more expensive vehicles. Slowly, they worked their way down the food chain to all cars. And, even more slowly, they made their way from front brakes only to all four wheels. Today, I am not sure you can buy a car without 4 wheel disk brakes...