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By the time you have read through to this post, disk brakes will be obselete too
Actually, they were obsolete decades ago, people just didn't realize that it was possible to make brakes that worked properly regardless of the weather.
Not everyone needs or wants them (my obscure point proves that) yet they won’t really have any choice. How much that matters varies by person.
Not really, you used your experience riding "mostly offroad" in an area that's "flat, no pedestrians, no roundabouts, no traffic lights, very few junctions etc" as an example, but generally brakeless hipsters are just a live experiment in Darwinism and riding in an area completely devoid of normal road hazards sort of makes your anecdote kind of irrelevant...
But do get a front brake buddy, a rim caliper would be good enough 😉
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By the time you have read through to this post, disk brakes will be obselete too
I'm ahead of the trend.
Drum brakes... 🙂
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+1 point for drum brakes
+1 point for fat front (only)
+1 point for alt-bars
+1 point for no derailleurs
-Eleventymillion points for a frame bag that doesn't fit properly! 😉
Those uneven gaps and clashing of triangles really upsets me....I'm going to go ride my bike to calm down.
You either have to a racer, someone on a serious budget, or maybe someone who does steady rides in Norfolk to buy a (new) rim brake bike these days.
I ride in hills, don't race, and had a pretty good budget, but I still went rim for a new carbon road bike last year. Same money bought me better frame and better wheels than would have done with discs. Living in Oz I don't expect to ride it in the rain much, I admit, but even then my commuter with 105 rim brakes has never failed me in the rain, even towing 40 kgs of toddlers and trailer.
Apologies if this has been done, but it seems to me the engineering penalty for calliper compatibility on a road bike is far less, ie just a hole through the bridge and fork crown rather than posts, no suspension to worry about etc. I feel like road bikes tend to have a longer service life than mtbs too, plus they’re a more conservative bunch! I’d go discs if I was buying a new one, but I’m not worried about the support of my calliper braked 2011 road bike like I am my 2010 26” wheeled, straight head tube Mtb!
Not really,
Yes really. Not everybody needs or wants disc brakes, yet if the only bikes available have disc brakes then they have no choice.
... yet if...
So, not really then...
Bikes without disc brakes are quite widely available...
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Bikes without disc brakes are quite widely available…
Bikes with 26" wheels were quite widely available a few years ago, so yes really.