Something occurred to me the other day. A thought. There’s probably a whole new generation of road cyclists that have never ridden anything apart from disc brakes. Disc brake equipped road bikes have been around long enough as the “mainstream” braking option that anyone starting their road cycling journey in the last couple of years…
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Late to the Disc Brake party
Disc brakes on road bikes have been around for a number of years now and have “matured” a lot in that time. Almost every single team in the Professional Peloton is 100% on discs and many manufacturers are no longer producing rim braked bikes. Even the new Shimano 105 Di2 electronic groupset is disc brake only! Rim brakes on high end road bikes are dying and there’s no two ways about it.
Braking on wet carbon: the argument for disc brakes!
I’m still not a fan of the look of disc brakes on a road bike, but after the weekend’s very wet ride on my carbon wheels I can certainly see the reasoning behind them! Let’s just say I would not have wanted to pull up in a hurry. Each corner or road junction was nerve…
Two Wheels with TC 