British Cycling allow the use of disc brakes in road racing
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https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/about/article/20...
Inevitable I suppose. Especially since I bought a rim braked road bike this year.
Steve
Inevitable I suppose. Especially since I bought a rim braked road bike this year.
Steve
Didn't the UCI say yes, then there was an accident and they changed their mind?
I bought a new 'nice' bike in July of last year. Went with a fairly decent frame and groupset, but its still rim brakes. Doesn't bother me that much.
I will eventually build another 'second' bike and that will be equipped with discs and guards for winter use. Discs are great for winter use.
I bought a new 'nice' bike in July of last year. Went with a fairly decent frame and groupset, but its still rim brakes. Doesn't bother me that much.
I will eventually build another 'second' bike and that will be equipped with discs and guards for winter use. Discs are great for winter use.
Having seen the UCI say discs were still going to be on trial for 2018 and based on BC's previous line that they would follow the UCI's lead I decided to upgrade my old aluminium road bike instead of using my fancy carbon item that has discs. So I was a little irked yesterday when I saw this announcement. Then I remembered I'm going to be racing cat 4 so chances of a bike smashing crash are a little higher than average. So a cheaper ali bike isn't such a bad thing. Overall pleased for the long term though. Hopefully in a couple of years we can stop talking about it altogether.
I'm building up a winter bike at the moment and opted to go for discs. Even today in reasonably good conditions my rim brakes were a bit iffy, so I can see the benefit of discs through the winter when the roads are especially wet and crappy. But when I (hopefully) build up a new summer/race bike in the spring I'll be sticking to rim brakes
Chrisgr31 said:
Kawasicki said:
People can't seem to accept that rim brakes have certain advantages over disc brakes and vice versa.
]and what are they? And the vice versa?https://www.crazyguyonabike.com/doc/page/?page_id=...
Kawasicki said:
A good few of the disc disadvantages are complete Bull st though, pulling front wheel out of forks WTF, only if you don't bother doing the QR up then quite frankly you deserve to eat pavement.The only possible negatives that I'd say only apply to tight racing are the increased weight engineered in to deal with the increased (stronger better) braking force they supply, that includes maybe higher spoke count due to less dishing etc (everyone wants a lighter bike to accelerate more easily) & ability to slow much more suddenly in a tight racing pack potentially causing a pile up. I don't believe for a moment they represent a cutting injury - has anyone seen the tiny size of road discs and position they occupy, virtually impossible to contact.
There is no question that hydraulic disc brakes stop bikes better in any conditions than rims people that claim otherwise are talking out of their arse.
irocfan said:
I'll prefice this by stating that I know NOTHING about bikes so I really need it explaining to me why (what would seem to be) a better/safer braking system would appear to not be welcomed.
The India disk brake theory: introduce one car with better brakes and there will be a cascading car crash when everyone else behind fails to stop.Gassing Station | Pedal Powered | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff