Rideon77 wrote:
Bullshit. I live in a hot, humid, wet state with big ass hills. We have been riding rim brakes......oh yea....forever. Helpful maybe, blessing doubtful. What disc brakes really do is allow different design for the rims themselves, hooked, hookless, etc. Besides if your braking a lot you're doing it wrong.
Disc brakes usually also allow one to run wider tires for training, where I ride the roads suck and now that I'm riding 32C tires on my road bike it's really hard to go back to my Speed Concept with 25C on the training wheels. It's not just comfort, it's a feeling of being safe and secure on rough pavement with wider tires. If I could run 28s or 30s for training rides I'd ride the SC a lot more but now it's getting way less use than it used to. Plus with more and more folks are switching to disc on their road bikes you can swap wheels between bikes. Hydraulic lines give better feel and modulation. Disks don't have a big advantage when it's dry but they are certainly better when it's wet and really way better in the rain if you have carbon wheels.