Originally Posted by
3alarmer
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...brakes only slow you down. What's teh point ? Might as well be dragging an anchor.
I know you are being facetious but I gotta say I don’t disagree. I live in mountains and ride in mountains (road bikes and mountain bikes) and have for all of my life. I use brakes sparingly. I can go years without having to replace pads of any kind. In fact, even though I have used disc brakes for about a decade now, I have yet to replace any of the original pads on several bikes.
I’ve used just about every brake type that is currently available including bad Diacompe center pulls, bad Diacompe side pulls and even rod brakes on this amazing piece of crap…
…which as been deemed so unsafe that we bolted it to the counter.
Brakes are less about what
kind of brake you have and more about
how you use them. In 40 years of mountain riding, I’ve never overheated a brake of any kind either.