Originally Posted by
rydabent
bandera
But disc brakes are far more elegant that rim brakes. They do not wear out a vital part of the bike, the rim.
There is alway resistance to change. Click shifting, and clipless pedals being a couple. Now it is disc brakes. A good percentage of people alway resist change away from the familiar.
Elegant? Hideous to my eye, choose the more aesthetic object:
In >40 years I have never worn out a bike rim from braking, it's a Straw Man argument.
If I ever did I'd re-lace it as I would replace any other component that was at the end of it's service life.
I was an early adopter of indexed shifting, clipless pedals, cycle computers and high performance clinchers. Disc brakes are not in the same class of useful new technology. For me disc road brakes are an answer to a question that I never asked: heavy, ugly, expensive and a maintenance hog.
Other than that......
-Bandera