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And no, you won't be able to buy a bike with rim brakes soon. Even
the new entry-level Specialized Sequoia comes with disc brakes, for chrissakes!
The new entry-level Specialized Sequoia is purpose-built and engineered to spend the rest of its life unridden in a suburban garage, and indeed many purchasers will probably return home only to find the previous iteration of the Sequoia already there:
("Oh yeah, I was totally going to take up cycling 13 years ago, I completely forgot about that!")