Dave Mayer

Indeed. Disks and other unnecessary trendy appendages have really added the pork to road bikes. I was hefting some supposedly expensive bikes in my local shop a couple of weeks ago and I'm dismayed by how heavy they are.

I built up a 17-pound road bike up last year for $700. No-name alu frame and a full carbon fork. No disks of course. If I replace the clincher wheelset with even the most basic set of tubular wheels, the bike will drop another pound.

Lazyass

The peleton better watch out for them rotors.

Avid 200mm



Hot!



Over the bars, knee hit rotor.

UnfilteredDregs

No rotor required...






You sure you weren't Air Force? lmao

Lazyass

Sooo... what are you saying?

UnfilteredDregs

Road biking can hurt, get over it.

Lazyass

Yeah. I think you missed the point. In any case, tell that to the guys on the World Tour who are voicing concerns. You're a recreational cyclist on an internet forum. You don't have to worry about your livelihood being on the line.

Stucky

I'm amazed by how many of the newer CF bikes out there weigh a few pounds more than my old AL Klein! (And the Klein is all-stock- no weight-weenie parts). I can only think of the hypnotic power of advertising; and the need of some to conform, as being reasons why someone'd trade their lighter old AL bike in for a heavier Cf bike, and pay a grand or two for the privilege.

Lazyass

I have a 1994 Diamondback Axis TR. Almost all original, True Temper TT Lite steel, full XT 8 speed group and a Manitou 3 fork. Without pedals it weighs 22lbs. I was looking at a '13 Breezer aluminum hardtail a few months ago. Discs, 26 inch wheels, some kind of fork I forgot and an XT group. It weighed 27 lbs. 20 years ago a 27lb hardtail MTB would be a lower end bike probably spec'd out with STX and a cheap fork. Not anymore.

UnfilteredDregs

I'm not missing any point. To say discs somehow adds additional quantifiable risk to the already myriad types of significant injuries randomly sustained in a group wreck is a herring.

Lazyass

A "herring" To say discs somehow adds additional quantifiable risk to the already myriad types of significant injuries randomly sustained in a group wreck is irrefutable. What's really amusing is all the people on here claiming discs aren't much of a danger, they can't cut you, you won't get burned, ect. When actually all of those things do in fact happen. But thanks for getting drama started again. BF rules

RJM

Why wouldn't they? They just have to cut someone up once to be an additional risk.

bt

you talk funny

cale

Tragic. Say, LA, where'd you find the pics? Was it tough to find them? Did you ask around or google it? Are others collecting similar pictures and will there be a sharing site so we can exchange pictures? Inquiring minds want to know.

Squeal like a pig.

UnfilteredDregs

It's about as irrefutable as the en mass amputations caused by chainrings... Thanks for playing.

cale

Which planet do you live on? Certainly not earth. You just blamed a drama after you start posting pics of cut up and burned people. Yeah, doing THAT wasn't too inflammatory!

Okay, back to our regularly scheduled reality. Not you LA, you have to stay back in your world. Getting such good laughs.

UnfilteredDregs

Just think of the lightsaber'esque cauterization as an added safety bonus.

Lazyass

Inflammatory? It's inflammatory to someone who does not want to see or hear about injuries with disc brakes. And only on BF would that be considered "inflammatory" You'll just have to suck it up.

cale

Wheee Wheee It's all I read.

RJM

I've decided I'm going to go and test ride every disk brake'd road bike I can now, that fit me.....I'm going to do a poll and see how many make braking noise.

The brake noise on my mountain bike has gotten to the point where I took it in to a shop so they can screw around with it (the linkage for the rear seems to squeak too). I'm tired of "fixing" it to have the bike start talking to me halfway into a 16 mile trail ride.

Lazyass

After giving it some thought, I want to apologize to those offended for posting insensitive and inflammatory pictures of riders who have been cut and burned from brake rotors. I will no longer post pictures such as the one below

BillyD

Too much drama. Buh bye!