Originally Posted by
Dave Mayer
Discs are too heavy. This level of braking is unnecessary unless you are doing muddy and steep cyclocross racing, or loaded touring in the rain.
Cyclists have been doing loaded touring for far more years then disk brakes have been around, and to this very day there are only a handful of disk brakes used on touring bikes, but touring in the rain with rim brakes I've never heard one complaint, in fact I can't complain myself since I've it done too!