Hi, Guest
07-14-2005, 03:42 AM
disc brakes are nice, but they're not an absolute 'must have' for the riding 90% of the population does...
in vancouver, bike shops are constantly busy rebuilding people's disc brake calipers and pistons... you NEVER see that outside the westcoast... the brakes are hardly used to their full potential here.
But they are trick, and for dirt jumpers and the like, a much welcomed convenience (a bent wheel rides smoother with a disc brake than with canti's or v-brakes).
my suggestion is, ride until you're breaking things, then replace them with better parts... you'll know for sure when you NEED disc brakes, and then you can go and spend the money on them.
in vancouver, bike shops are constantly busy rebuilding people's disc brake calipers and pistons... you NEVER see that outside the westcoast... the brakes are hardly used to their full potential here.
But they are trick, and for dirt jumpers and the like, a much welcomed convenience (a bent wheel rides smoother with a disc brake than with canti's or v-brakes).
my suggestion is, ride until you're breaking things, then replace them with better parts... you'll know for sure when you NEED disc brakes, and then you can go and spend the money on them.
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