Originally Posted by
rydabent
But disc brakes are far more elegant that rim brakes. They do not wear out a vital part of the bike, the rim.
Eye of the beholder. Personally, I find hub mounted discs to be rather ugly, clunky and poorly designed. The location of the calipers for both front and rear are just wrong.
Some manufacturers have located the rear brake onto the chainstay which allows for easier rack and fender mounting on utility bikes but not all. And the fork mount location is simply wrong. Mounting it behind the left fork blade causes the wheel to want to eject from the fork tips. You
have to have wheel retention to prevent wheel ejection. If the caliper were mounted on front of the fork blade, the physics are such that the wheel would be forced up into the tips rather then out of the fork. But that causes other problems with aerodynamics and aesthetics.
You are also taking a non-dished wheel and adding a significant amount of dish to it. You only have 100mm to work with on a front wheel.
Originally Posted by
rydabent
An analogy he is like the multi function printer on my desk. It is a copier, printer and scanner. If the power supply doesnt work, I have 3 machines that dont work. Rim brakes too are multi function, it is a wheel and a brake.
...And, as many people have pointed out to you, the multifunctionality of a rim brake wheel isn't that big a deal.
Originally Posted by
rydabent
If the wheel is broken again the whole bike is useless.
News flash: You can still break a disc wheel. Additionally, even with the braking track "broken", bikes usually have a second wheel that can do braking duty. It's not as big a deal as you make it out to be. I can think of about a dozen other things that can render a bike "useless" for which you don't have ready spares out in the field.
Originally Posted by
rydabent
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.
Some people do. Others resist change for the sake of change. Hub mounted disc brakes fall into the latter category.