Originally Posted by JeffS
Getting pretty far off the road bike topic now... and the subjectiveness of need has already been discussed. Sorry to further derail the topic, just disappointed to see an informative thread get hijacked by people with little to no interest in the subject.
I'm sorry Jeff, I didn't mean to hijack the thread. It was all in good fun, and as I stated before, I am interested in finding a road bike with disc brakes because I'm movin' to Seattle over the summer. I'll stop going off-topic now.