Originally Posted by
PaulRivers
- It's more difficult to take wheels of and put them on again without the discs rubbing vs rim brakes. I own two disc brake bikes, and my dad owns one, and I've found this with all of them.
All mechanical disc brakes?
I'm curious because I would have said that taking the wheels off and putting them on again was a disc brake advantage, since you don't have to disengage the brake to do it. Some mechanical disc brakes require the pads to be fairly close to the rotor for proper performance, so I can see that possibly yielding fiddly issues when putting the wheel back on if you don't get it perfectly seated. Disc brakes that move both pads (i.e. Tektro Spyre and all hydraulic disc brakes) shouldn't have this problem if set up correctly.