Originally Posted by FarHorizon
MTB disc brakes will NEVER become standard on road bikes. Why? They're heavier, they have more stopping power than road bikes need, they're harder to adjust & more prone to drag, and current rim brakes are "adequate."
When disc brakes are designed FOR ROAD BIKES, they'll be lighter than MTB brakes, integrated with the fork blades for aerodynamics, smaller in diameter than MTB brakes, won't be adjustment-sensitive or prone to drag, and they'll be used BY RACERS for their advantages in descents.
Once ROAD-SPECIFIC discs are invented and become popular, rim brakes will become absolutely extinct (as they deserve to be)!
Yet the first disk brakes
were on road bikes, then adapted to mountain bikes, which begs the question, why didn't the road bike manufacturers actively pursue an improved road bike disk brake system over the last 30 years?
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