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Originally Posted by UFO
I don't buy it. Disc brakes even if they can get the weight down, are impractical for road bikes. Mud/dirt/grime isn't an issue road riding vs. mtb, for cyclocross for sure there are benefits same as for an mtb. Road tires are way skinny and contact patch to the ground is minimal. You can have gobs of braking power, but if your tires break traction that braking power is useless and even dangerous
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I have to disagree.
The reliability and maintenance of disks compared to a rim brake far out weighs the negatives of added weight. Of course you can skid with rim brakes (you should be using your front more anyways), but after a decently long decent they get spongy and probably need some adjustment to get them back to the tight lever position you started with. Not to mention riding in foul weather, where any moisture on the rim and they just become a messy sludgy mess. Also having to replace your entire rim after a couple seasons
even if its perfectly true due to the braking surface being worn.
I've put nearly 1000k on my disk brakes as a dd riding down hills everyday with maybe 20% worn off the pads. When using rim brakes I would go through a set of quality pads in little over a month.