I really appreciate Grant sharing his thoughts on various subjects. To me, suggesting that Riv should put disc brakes on a bike is very similar to asking them to add a suspension fork to a Hunq.
Riv bikes strike me as more of an atisan created bicycle that has been refined through many years of trial and error. As opposed to design through computer aided engineering techniques. I very seriously doubt that Grant has engaged an engineer to do a finite element analysis model for one of his bikes. If you want a steel bike with disc brakes there are plenty of them available. If you want a lugged steel frame with canti's and a quill stem, there are very few options. It is not a question of one right answer, but more about do what you like. I like canti's and side pull's. Two things I don't like about discs: I end up hauling a lot of bikes around and frequently taking off front wheels. I think it is much easier to take off a front wheel on a QR canti bike than a disc thru axle and I have to pry the pads apart if I bump the brake lever while the wheel is out. And it is going to get harder to find nice wheels for rim brakes in the future because the rim manufacturers as discs become more prevalent. Best, Scott On Friday, May 13, 2016 at 8:19:47 AM UTC-6, 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.
