Rim Brakes

[legrandefromage]

Biggest issue I have found with discs are pad contamination - they seem to only work well for about 5 minutes before something buggers up the pads.

Discs on road bikes still make me laugh out loud though.

 

[clubby]

IMO mtbing is going the wrong way. bigger wheels, heavier bikes. This makes going up hill a nightmare.

But it makes going downhill a whole lot more fun!
Also think that bikes look a lot cleaner with disk brakes, especially with internal routing.
Last good looking rim brake were the wide frog leg canti’s. Never been a good looking v-brake.

Admittedly disks can be a pita to set up, but at least after that they don’t need any attention until the pads need changed.

 

[mdvineng]

Rim wear, wet braking nah! Downhill roads and exploding the tire off the rim with heat nah! Discs for me but I'm not converting the older bikes.

 

[legrandefromage]

Rim wear, wet braking nah! Downhill roads and exploding the tire off the rim with heat nah! Discs for me but I'm not converting the older bikes.

I can still remember the sounds and pad smell of 30+ retrobike riders braking hard on the final decent at one of the last big Peaks ride.

 

[clubby]

I can still remember the smell of 30+ retrobiker's chamois' after braking hard on the final decent at one of the last big Peaks ride.

 

[dyna-ti]

Re: Re:

Rim brakes are fine until its wet or muddy

This.

#it all comes down to adjustment

How many time have we all heard this ?. I have been building and riding for DECADES. I am wholly competent in all mechanical aspects of cycling. As are likely 75% of all the users here and amongst that group many either work in the bike industry,or volunteer in some aspect, usually the building and servicing of pretty tatty 2nd handers.

In the dry yes, add water and forget it.

In fact I cannot think of any other application in any industry where rubber in friction contact with smooth metal can have the friction increased by adding water, or worse slippery clay based mud.
:facepalm: Honestly, anyone proposing that one is just plain old nuts

Ceramic helps a bit, and I went ceramic 517 f&r both XTR and XT V's on XT levers but not a great deal though you do get quite a disconcerting sound of pad on rim, like a shusshhhshshshshs`ing noise, that sounds just like you using wet and dry sandpaper

 

[kyle888]

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you do get quite a disconcerting sound of pad on rim, like a shusshhhshshshshs`ing noise, that sounds just like you using wet and dry sandpaper

And then half of the rim life has been literally worn away!

I too am a competent working on bikes and have built many bikes and fixed/serviced bikes for friends and know how to set up brakes properly.

 

[mattr]

Re: Re:

#it all comes down to adjustment

How many time have we all heard this ?. I have been building and riding for DECADES. I am wholly competent in all mechanical aspects of cycling. As are likely 75% of all the users here and amongst that group many either work in the bike industry,or volunteer in some aspect, usually the building and servicing of pretty tatty 2nd handers.

Yet i still used to get dozens of bikes a year, allegedly serviced in shops or by "wholly competent" cyclists where the brakes barely functioned in the dry....

Though, to be fair, some people (same people, same shops) have brought me disc braked bikes with brakes that barely function in the dry :facepalm:

 

[legrandefromage]

I barely function when dry.

 

[Splatter Paint]

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I thought discs on a road bike would be overkill, then I rode them - awesome. My cheap-o Avid BB5 on my tourer are way better wet than any road bike caliper I've ridden bar modern Dura Ace.

I like the look of XT v-brakes over XT disc. I only ride my rim-brake bikes in the dry now anyway. NOS rims are too expensive to wear out!

SP