Disc brakes and well designed suspension forks are no more prone to obsolescence than rim brakes or rigid forks, for which, also, there are fashions (high-rake? Paul, Compass, centerpulls? -- not in the original Rivendell catalogues). And please explain why disc brakes will last less long than calipers or cantis or those horrible modern V brakes?
Patrick Moore, whose BB7s on his bilaminate custom dirt road bike will be things of beauty forever. The period Rockshock fork on the 1996 Race Lite I owned worked as well in 2016 as it did in 1996; though I personally have no need for suspension forks of any era. And BB7s have been around longer than Compass brakes and, I daresay, some of the Dia Compe calipers. On Sat, Jun 16, 2018 at 8:13 AM, iamkeith <keithhar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Setting aesthetics, appropriateness of riding style and necessary > design/handling compromises aside, I'm surprised nobody has pointed out the > most obvious strike against suspension (not to mention disc brakes): > longevity and built-in obsolescence. > > -- 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.
