Maybe Grant is frustrated with the lack of questioning and reflection when it comes to the type of brakes needed for riding. You can't just slap disc tabs on Riv bikes and call it a day, you have to design a bike entirely around discs, new drop outs for curved fork blades, thicker fork blades, reinforcement at the stays, etc. He already doesn't like lawyer tabs.
I think Grant designs what type of bike he wants first and designing around that. I remember about him refusing to put canti posts for awhile on AHH because the seatstays he chose were not designed to withhold the brake forces of cantis. Of course this is all speculation, but Grant does advocate for accessibility of riding and getting more people to ride bikes - not just bike enthusiasts. And he may view rim brakes capable for a vast majority of riding a vast majority of people do, but the disc brake enthusiasts along with bike industry marketing are luring people/customers to think disc brakes are a necessity. I've read a few comments on some websites/forums like: "beautiful, but wish it were disc brake...", which may seem dismissive or not showing acknowledgment that Grant designed the bike for a specific purpose. I bet he probably gets a number of people call or walk in who are looking into biking more "seriously" and are looking for disc brake bikes as a pre-requisite. This is all speculation because I am not Grant, nor do i reside in his mind. But trying to picture what it would be like to own a business selling great bikes and advocating more people on bikes, only to be dismissed over disc brakes. Even Rivendell's "stout" frames are pretty lively over something like a Surley Straggler. On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 1:24:32 PM UTC-4, John Phillips wrote: > > It almost sounds to me like Grant is arguing with himself inside his own > noggin over adding disc brakes to his line up. Or was this started by > customers? > > As I was reading, I thought to myself, "Ok, my Hunqapillar is a touring > bike rated to carrying a load up to 360lbs, we (Riv & I) live in the East > bay hills & near the Sierras, Grant advocates fenders for riding in all > weather, so...why not build a touring bike with disc brakes?" > > Are customers or would-be customers pestering Grant over his choice of > brakes? > > John (Happy w/ my Cant's) Phillips > > On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 7:19:47 AM UTC-7, Will wrote: >> >> Might be nice to push back to GP and encourage more of these posts. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
