Long story short, I was riding home from work on my 2011 Cannondale caad x when I got hit by a car on Monday evening, resulting in a broken arm and minor bruising. Bike’s fine 🙂
It was wet at the time and I recon if my (crappy cantilever) brakes were better, I might have been able to avoid the accident so now I’m thinking of either upgrading the caad x to disc on the front or selling it and buying something newer.
To upgrade I’d need a new fork and a disc brake so I’m thinking ~£250 for a Lynskey Endurance Disc Fork and a BB7 calliper & disc & cables etc.
Or I could sell the bike (for ~£400?) and put some cash towards a new bike.
Something like a caad x rival http://www.evanscycles.com/products/cannondale/caadx-rival-22-disc-2015-cyclocross-bike-ec071031
or a cube race disc pro http://www.hargrovescycles.co.uk/cube-cross-race-disc-pro-2015-cyclocross-bike.html
or even a Rose http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/bike/rose-pro-dx-cross-3000-hydraulic/aid:770985
Would I notice any real difference for the extra £1000?
Or should I sell my Specialized Epic too and by a good hardtail for commuting and weekend fun… decisions decisions….

go disc all round, definitely. Ideally hydraulic if you have the funds.

in fact everyone should be selling their rim brakes bikes now, if they have any (financial) sense, before they drop like a stone in value, like 26ers have.

Come 2017 they’ll be like hens teeth – disc all the way, especially with 105 HyRd coming out in a couple of months.

in fact everyone should be selling their rim brakes bikes now, if they have any (financial) sense, before they drop like a stone in value, like 26ers have.

Financial sense is why I will be sticking to rim calipers on my road bike for now I think, buying shiny new disc braked road bikes while they are the latest and most expensive must have MAMIL toy? Financial genius. If that’s really the prevailing mind set I reckon there will be some proper bargains about for luddites like me…

Keep Them clean and they work, Let them get covered in shite and don’t clean them and they don’,and ultimately brakes are only ever as effective as the tyre they’re stopping it that has bugger all grip the greatest brakes on earth won’t really matter…