Originally Posted by
phughes
But you did. Sorry, but disc brakes have a much smaller surface area by which to dissipate heat, and they can, and do fade, much faster than a rim brake.
My experience with both is that this is simply not true. What you may be missing here is that even though discs may get hotter, the pad materials are completely different, and disc pads can take the heat much better.
I have seen it happen with disc brakes, but have not experienced it with rim brakes..
Well I
have experienced it with rim brakes back when I ran them on my MTBs. And it happens more easily then with disc. I know because I run disc now and can brake a lot longer and harder without any fade. The reason you hear about it more with disc now is because almost nobody uses rim brakes for demanding mtb applications anymore.
My point was that your concern about discs fading is moot: if you are not braking hard and long enough to fade rim brakes (which you say you are not), then you are not braking hard and long enough to fade discs.