Originally Posted by
zymphad
I've noticed in cycling, while trends come and some leave, they often come around again...I wonder if rim/direct mount be the same
Not a chance. The shift to discs has been driven entirely by pros who want to drive harder into the corners and need a useful braking option that is both more powerful and easier to modulate. They don't care 2 whits if it looks cool. Rims brakes suck and that's just a fact. Anyone who says otherwise has never used a disc brake equipped bike, doesn't ride in conditions where there are clouds between them and the sun, or they descend like they're scared. Discs are far superior and there's frankly no physical/mechanical way to make rimmies any better than they currently aren't.
Steel came back because it never left.
For the anti-disc crowd, come at me. Without fail 99.9% of you fall into one of the 3 categories I listed. I don't know much about bikes except what I've learned over 45 years of riding, racing, crashing, and fixing them.