greenstork, how do you like the shimano brakes? I like that they gave you full housing to the rear one.

I like my road Avids (have them on my mountain bike, too), but I think they still have a bit of work to do in the cable pull ratio department. To anyone else thinking of running road discs: make sure you have in-line cable adjusters, they make brake set up and fine tuning much less of a headache.