Originally Posted by
hounslow
PS cycocommute has brakes that don't work or doesn't know how to set them up correctly, as he is going against basically the rest of the cycling world with his opinions/statements.
What have I said that makes you think that my brakes...rim or hub mounted disc...don't work? Or that I don't know how to set them up? I have several disc systems and several rim systems. They all work equally well. If anything, my rim brakes work better than the vast majority of brakes of any flavor that I see coming into the local co-op where I teach people how to work on their bikes...including their disc brakes.
My issues with hub mounted discs isn't that they are ineffective but that they are unnecessary and certainly not so much better than a properly installed and maintained rim brake that I feel the need to run out and replace the rim brakes tomorrow.
Rim brakes have a few warts but hub mounted discs have many more.