Originally Posted by
jefnvk
If you blow out the front one on a tour in the middle of nowhere, its really hard to take the fluid and lines out of the back one and put it up front for better stopping power the way you could with a cable?
/notactuallyaseriousproblem
just unclip the hose from the frame and move the rear caliper to the front, 4-6 bolts and its done.
From my experience over the last two years or so with hydro discs they are pretty much a set and forget. Bleeding and doing the initial set up does not take much more if any more time the the initial install of rim brakes.