Originally Posted by
big john
To read this one might think the weight added is several kilos. You know there are disc brake bikes which are at the UCI minimum, right?
And people who buy disc brake road bike just don't know any better? You know there are people who want discs, right? Are they just stupid?
If most buyers were like you discs never could have become so dominant.
Silly - we're all just sheep, doing whatever Big Disc wants them to do. And those of us who have both disc brakes and rim brakes are simply unwilling to admit that we made a mistake, and so many of us go out and spend thousands more just to prove we didn't make a mistake buying a disk bike in the first place!