> Is it just me or is this thread getting ridiculously cranky? Ah, yes, it's December...the usual winter surliness.
Hope no one feels I am being cranky about this. I think we can take it for granted in some bad weather scenarios disc brakes have advantages over rim. We also have to take for granted that even the best built disc brake at this point in time is going to have to have extra steel at critical points of the bike that will impact ride and feel. The rider has to compromise between consistent stopping regardless the road conditions or overall road feel. SRAM is trying to come up with disc brakes for road bikes that obviate the compromise. My operating theory anyway is the recall demonstrates SRAM's effort may be more difficult than they think. Not sure if it is impossible. But I do not think we are there yet. As for me, given where I live and ride, road feel - thus rim brakes - take precedent. I'm willing to suffer a couple of inconvenient rides per year in order to get the best possible road feel. If I lived and rode somewhere those bad rides were 20 times a year or more, I might well have a different mindset. On Wednesday, December 18, 2013 2:34:43 PM UTC-6, Addison wrote: > > Is it just me or is this thread getting ridiculously cranky? Ah, yes, > it's December...the usual winter surliness. > > Smile and go for a ride if you can! That's what I'm about to do... > > Regards, > > > Addison Wilhite, M.A. > > Academy of Arts, Careers and > Technology<http://www.washoecountyschools.org/aact/> > > > *“Blazing the Trail to College and Career Success”* > > Educator: Professional Portfolio <http://addisonwilhite.blogspot.com/> > > Blogger: Reno Rambler <http://reno-rambler.blogspot.com/> > > Bicycle Advocate: Regional Transportation Commission, Bicycle Pedestrian > Advisory Committee<http://www.rtcwashoe.com/public-transportation-22-124.html> > > > > On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 12:27 PM, Steve Palincsar > <pali...@his.com<javascript:> > > wrote: > >> On 12/18/2013 03:16 PM, Bill Lindsay wrote: >> >>> My friend Bobby said earlier (and I quote): "if I were embarking on a >>> multi-day tour away from civilization, I'd have a lightweight, compact kit >>> with me that would get me through any potential jam with my brakes" >>> >>> Would you like him to describe the contents of this kit? I'll wager >>> that DOT brake fluid is one of the items. Correspondingly, I bet you and >>> Jan would carry a brake cable in your kit, since brake cables also do not >>> grow on trees (so to speak). >>> >> >> Tell you what else, shift cables do not grow on trees either. And when >> you have front and rear panniers on your bike and you're riding in rural >> West Virginia when your shift cable breaks, you will quickly discover, as I >> did, that in a town without a bike shop there isn't anything you can find >> in a hardware store that will work as a substitute. And believe you me, >> picture hanging wire just won't do: I know. I tried. >> >> >> -- >> 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-bun...@googlegroups.com <javascript:>. >> To post to this group, send email to >> rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com<javascript:> >> . >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > > -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
