Originally Posted by
AlmostTrick
I also keep my bikes clean and switched to discs early this year.
So glad to not have any more black sludge, or the annoying sound of brake pads full of grit grinding down my rims.
I will never go back to rim brakes on a bike that will see regular rain rides for this reason alone.
Oh sweet Lord, I pretty much ruined a brand new wheel build that way. got a small rock stuck in the groves of the brake pad and it just ate up one side of my rim. Took tons of refinishing the brake surface to finally make it go away. But that rim ended up getting ruined in the aforementioned crash, so oh well.
Yeah, I'm thinking disc might be the way to go. I'm already going to have to get a second wheelset eventually, so I might as well do it all at once.