Originally Posted by
smd4
Again, I would get absolutely zero benefit from disc brakes. Zero, Nada, Zilch.
Given your claims about disc brakes, you apparently haven't used a good setup; so your judgment is a bit uninformed. But at any rate, if you had framed it this way ("I would get..."), you wouldn't have gotten so much pushback.
Originally Posted by
Eric F
The rub is that your statements about disc brake performance (on/off, poor modulation) are so significantly different than what others experience.
Yep. He's not ridden a decent setup.
Originally Posted by
Atlas Shrugged
Except for better braking performance ("the action or process of carrying out or accomplishing an action, task, or function.")
And he may not need better braking than he's already getting from rim brakes. But that's a separate matter from posting a bunch of inaccurate and uninformed opinions about disc brakes.