Originally Posted by
pgjackson
When they first started showing up on cyclocross bikes. I joined this forum in 2010. It was a pretty hotly discussed item back then. They were not popular in the road group.
1. The present discussion is about road bikes, not cyclocross bikes. Even before disc brakes, cyclocross brakes used different brakes than road bikes.
2. The people on this forum are not representative of the general bike-buying population. Many are
very set in their ways, and they are very vocal about it.