On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 12:04:35 PM UTC-7, Steve Palincsar wrote: > On 06/21/2017 02:56 PM, Philip Kim wrote: > > Good points, I think bikers gotten along just fine with rim brakes > > before disc brakes came along. And I also think that since then, the > > options for the kinds of terrain that can be ridden on a bike have > > really opened up. > > > > You can easily bike on sand, snow, rock gardens pretty easily. Of > > course some of these routes and terrain have been traversed by rim > > brakes, but aren't we here because the idea of biking comfortably > > appeals to us? Sometimes that comfort can come in disc brakes, whether > > really wide tires dictates, or whether we feel it has predictable > > stopping power regardless of weather / terrain conditions. Sometimes > > it can come in the form of suspension forks. > > > > I regularly took my canti brake VO Camargue out the local mtb trails > > which are very rooty and rocky, and while it was fun the first couple > > of times, I stopped going as it became less and less so. > > How will disc brakes make riding a rooty rocky MTB trail more comfortable?
In my experience, speed modulation on a dime so you don't hit that obstruction and become uncomfortable in a thicket. ~hugh -- 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.
