As this entertaining thread is slowly circling down the drain a parting comment. For individuals in the market for a premium sporting bicycle, the number who desire a rim brake bike is virtually nonexistent. This forum, with its highly skewed demographic toward the elderly, does not represent what is happening within the sport or the consumer's wants. As the Luddites call from the sidelines that rim brakes are superior and that mass-produced Italian race bikes from the '70s and '80s provide an ethereal riding experience, the world has moved on.
Last edited by Atlas Shrugged; 01-18-23 at 12:15 PM.