Originally Posted by elcruxio

In general rim brakes are not as good stoppers as discs. Even the best rim brakes cannot compare against the best discs. I would love to see a rim brake which was as powerful as my magura gustaf's. This is of course in the mountain world where tires are wider and stopping traction is no problem.

In the road/hybrid world discs don't necessary give better stopping power since tire traction is limited (personally I have yet to see this happen but whatever...) but thwn again you get the same amount of braking with a lighter touch.

I personally like the fact that I can get the maximun brake power with no effort at all with one finger against all the rim brakes I've tried which never seem to get to the max power no matter which pad, which brake and what power/amount of fingers

Also it's not a nice feeling when your lever action starts 1cm from the open position and even when the lever is touching the bar there isn't good brake power. In a steep downhill. When you really need to stop. Against the fact that with a good set of discs you would have otb'd an elefant with the brake force you just did.

And let me tell you! Rim brakes are the worst in the winter and rainy conditions. Inthe right kind of cold you get maybe 5% of your normal braking power. If that. And in the rain all the sand/clay/grime sticks to your rim and grinds away at it with the wet pad. It's like an ultra coarse honing stone against your aluminum rim.