C59 lovely bike, but add a couple of saucepan lids!

Nice bike dude.

Without discs, much tidier.

Horrible wheels – rest of ot looks ok.
Paint makes it look cheap.

Is this another ‘real men don’t need disks, drinking water is for softies, back in the day we suffered and were glad of it, gears are for girls, it’s not supposed to be fun, it’s supposed to hurt,’ type post?
😐

The colour scheme is the most offending feature of the first one.
Quite like it actually – always wanted a Sunday best with discs

bugger sussed 😉

Just surprised at the huge effect such a small addition has on the aesthetics.

I agree, looks miles better with discs. 😀

I love this top of the range ‘Dale’ simply beautiful

Yep – I hate those sticky-out bits in front of the fork crown/bridge.

Def better with discs.

Drag yourself out the stoneage.

I’m another one who prefers the look of road bikes with discs – the rim calipers spoil the outline IMO.

I hate pointless marketing dressed up as innovation – hydroforming, anodizing, dropper posts, pointless new standards etc.
But I reckon discs are acually a positive innovation, yer actual, genuine progress.

And they make the frame look cleaner. 🙂

the brake levers on the first are hidieous and for that reason alone it should be banned.

I’m not convinced that the road disc thing has been fully tested; I’ve had brake failure and blued smoking discs from mountain biking using 180 discs, admittedly in the Sierra Nevada in that Spain. I wouldn’t trust little discs on plastic forks at big road bike speeds until they’ve been properly tested…

I have discs on my carbon-forked touring bike. We get down hills relatively quick – especially with the added weight of tent etc. I worry more about heating up rims.

No way would the Big S at least release anything risky.

And remember you are never going to have the combo of slow speeds and steep gradients (which need the most braking power) on a road bike that you do on an mtb.

As per druidh, I did some loaded alpine road riding on BB5s last year, no problems.

I can’t help but feel that the desire for sleek and sexy will result in too small a disc being used, and it will only take one big off when someone runs out of road to set us back to calipers forever.

I’d like to see proper big day out in the mountains testing to reassure me.

I’m also not sure about the combination of skinny sexy carbon forks and lots of heat. My worry is that people assume that mountain bikes do ok so we can use the same tech on road bikes, but the speeds can be far higher and the time spent braking can be so much longer.

I might be being an old woman about it, but test, test, test before getting in there.

Presumably people are using cable discs, but are they getting a proper seeing too, rather than being used for commuting and cross?

I like the look of road discs too, definitely cleaner looking than rim brakes.

That new Dura-Ace chainset looks flipping weird though.

nicer with discs 🙂

beautiful bike spoilt by stupid looking cranks.
and white tyres!?!

the Cannondale is absolutely lovely though. what cranks are those?

+1 much nicer with discs

Can’t wait for the new disc roadies.

That Cannondale c/set is nice.

+1 discs

Porn! Even with all that Campag rubbish on it! 😉

crikey, you’re an old woman.

Consider a few minutes down a technical 1 in 3 descent on an mtb @ 3 mph. No way are you ever going to be building up as much heat on a road bike. OK road discs will be smaller, but not to the extent it will cause problems. IMO.

And as I say, no way would the big companies open themselves up to product liability/death suits in the worlds richest, most litigious country – the same one whose biggest participator sport is cycling.

chainset on the Cannotfail is an own brand Hollowgram SiSL2

Have the valve stems been photoshopped out of the cannondale pic, or is there some crazy new tech going on there.

Or worse, have they not aligned tyres/stems?

Hmmm.

I used 180 discs in that Spain, in those Sierra Nevada mountains, and blued both discs, finishing runs with them smoking and pinging. That was about 500 metres of downhill at about 15-20 mph.

Given that you can unglue a tubular tyre by dragging the brakes on a long road descent, I’ll wait and see for a while I think.

Nevermind the heating/cooling/heating thing on skinny carbon forks..

Not yet proven IMHO.

Bloody orrable them discs, keep em pure and light please.

No need for discs on a roadie.

crikey – Member
Given that you can unglue a tubular tyre by dragging the brakes on a long road descent, I’ll wait and see for a while I think.

Nevermind the heating/cooling/heating thing on skinny carbon forks..

Not yet proven IMHO.

Well given any heat won’t be near the tyre…

How hot do your forks get on your mtb?

Unproven…not even released more like!

No need for discs on a roadie.

No need for gears, pneumatic tyres, manmade fabrics or alloy/carbon components either.

That dale has made me pitch a trouser tent. I’m sure disks on road bikes will be pretty sorted in a couple of years. I can’t say I’m in any rush for them, but once they are established in the mainstream I’m sure i’ll give them a go.

Ooh, lovely, is it time for another disc brakes / road bikes thread again. We haven’t had one for what, a whole month?!

And that Colnago, like all Colnagos, is ugly as sin although I’ll give them some credit for not going for their usual ‘explosion-in-a-paint-factory’ look.

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