Lord at my age I wonder if I should even be thinking about yet another bike but........

We have a lot of mountain roads in NC/SC with steep twisty technical descents and I’m an average descender. I like riding hilly terrain like western Colorado as well. Since I bounced off the asphalt and broke my hip I’d really hate to bounce off the asphalt again. I’ve started “thinking” about a road bike with hydraulic disc brakes. I have them on my gravel bike and mechanical disc brakes on our tandem.

It looks like there is a weight penalty with discs but maybe I could just lose a few more pounds to make up the difference??? I’m not sure frame manufacturers have really completely maximized the frame designs for discs but they’re getting there.

And there are some descent deals out there on last year’s models right now.

Anyone riding them? Thoughts?