Originally Posted by FlashBazbo

In your zeal to bash a product you seem to know very little about, you're missing the topic of the thread. I'm not asking about disc brakes. I've ridden today's disc brakes. They are excellent. (The technology has come a vast distance from the fussy, fiddly cable actuated discs of 10 years ago. You really should try it.) And while, yes, you can lock up a wheel with both types of brakes, a person of average skill can get a massive amount of braking force out of a hydraulic disc WITHOUT locking it up. And that, after all, is the point. People are buying disc brakes because they are better. Are they more powerful? Yes. Are they better in the rain and the mud and gravel? Yes. Is it easier to get maximum braking force out of them without locking them up? Absolutely.


But my original topic is about the bikes that wear discs. I know the brakes. And I know that two bikes, even with the same brakes, will handle differently, steer differently, weigh different amounts, and ride differently. Doing a google search for bicycle reviews will generally get you multiple copies of the manufacturer's sales press release, with little modification other than the magazine editor's byline. So I asked for the experiences of cyclists. I'm sorry if it offended you . . . well, no, I'm not. I might do it again, just to piss you off later today.