Originally Posted by
holytrousers
i think you didn't take into account how braking forces are transmitted to the rim: with disc brakes, they are transmitted to the rim through the holed part of rim.. with rim brakes, they are located on rim walls.
So it seems ok to accept that some designs are not compatible with rim brakes.
There is no rim design that I can think of that would be incompatible with a hub mounted disc brake. The forces on the rim are small. The spokes do most of the work. There are legitimate reasons for not using a disc rim with a rim brake...the sidewalls have been reduced and there is no brake track...but the opposite isn’t true of rim brake rims. Rims for rim brakes tend to be heavier because the brake track adds to the weight but, if anything, that would add strength to the rim, not take it away.