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Old 04-14-23 | 05:27 PM
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Steve B.
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From: South shore, L.I., NY

Bikes: Trek Emonda SL7, Cannondale Topstone, Miyata City Liner, Specialized Chisel, Specialized Epic Evo

I have a Topstone with 105 discs, as well as a Chinese carbon with 105 rims brakes. I pretty much never ride in the rain (unless I accidentally get caught out) and avoid wet roads. There is functionally no difference between the 2 braking systems in good conditions. The singularly different advantage to a disc equipped bike is I can run much wider tires, up to 44mm, where as I would never be able to get a tire that large past a set of rim brakes. So discs are great for gravel and endurance bikes.

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