Chris - while there are other rim brake manufacturers (Paul, Tektro, etc.) who are still making rim brakes, I think one of the concerns - and it has been batted back and forth on this blog as well as by Grant on his own Blug - is that if rim brakes disappear entirely (which I doubt) and cyclists are forced to use disc brakes, they won't be able to do so without a front fork change. AND, as Grant has pointed out, not all forks are built substantially enough to work safely with disc brakes. One of the issues discussed had to do with which side of the bike's fork the disc caliper is located.
Just this past week a cyclist in my area had a front wheel "fall off" while riding on a path and he sustained serious head, face, and other injuries. I'm waiting to find out the details, but I wouldn't be surprised if the bike had a left-side disc brake mount and he hadn't tightened the QR sufficiently, and it worked its way loose during hard braking. On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 12:35:44 PM UTC-5 Christopher Cote wrote: > There is no practical reason at all that you couldn't run a disc-brake hub > with a rim-brake rim. Maybe you can make a valid objection for aesthetic > reasons, but it's hardly a reason for concern, IMHO. > > Chris > > > On Friday, May 21, 2021 at 11:01:36 AM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: > >> Per Grant's blog: >> >> *Shimano is going to stop making middle-to-upper end non-disc brake hubs >> soon, road and mountain. * >> >> Thank God there is always Phil Wood. And no doubt vast quantities of old >> Shimano rim-brake hubs buried in garages worldwide. >> >> >> -- >> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Patrick Moore >> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >> > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/7dcb105a-b3cd-4ef7-a2e8-7087e5f9c9a3n%40googlegroups.com.
