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Originally Posted by carelesschucca
Ach let's be honest the main reason most cyclists don't like disc brakes is down to one thing...
Aesthetics!!!
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True. there's that too.
I was put off though by test riding lots of early disc road bikes and cross bikes I'd worked on and they were real heavy feeling pigs to ride, despite being fairly light bikes.
Also, plenty of the early disc calipers seemed to be worse for braking than a lot of rim brakes! Even on some mountain bikes you get the disc front / vee brake rear combo and the vee brake worked better than the disc! Mainly mechanical granted, and road hydraulics have got pretty amazing in the last few years, without having to have all sorts of bits dangling off the bike in weird places like you did just a few years back.
I agree about the backwardness of cycling sometimes. That can be part of the charm of it though. Retro bikes can be lovely to look at. So long as it's someone else riding it!