Why You Should NEVER Take Disk Brakes For Granted! 🫵🧑‍🏫

Why You Should NEVER Take Disk Brakes For Granted! 🫵🧑‍🏫
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[lexington]

Yeah have to love wet cantilever brakes, you pull them all the way and it's more of a slight suggestion to slow down versus actually stopping the bike 🙂.

[jaredkershaw]

So true, but don’t forget or mechanical brakes as well

[SimonBauer]

my uncle rode mtb back in the no disk brakes era too, and he once rode in the alps, it was wet, the brakes barely worked, he went down a mountain, lucky that the brakes not gave out before he realized that the brakes where shit, and got off.

[RalphBrooker-gniv]

I remember but wasn’t attracted by a Magura hydraulic rim-brake. Magura were massive back then for advance, thinking-outside-the-box developments.

I’ve got tiny XTR stoppers on lighter f/s bike. But Avid Code on my heavier one. Avid Codes are best stoppers I’ve ever used, bar none. Avoid Shimano pads like the plague.

[graybollocks]

They will indeed work no matter what. Except after the slightest breath of any lubricant or fluid necessary to keep a bike running. Then it’s chocolate teapot time.

[Velo]

Sure beats the old days of using rim brakes. Man those things were pathetic when they got wet.

[Timooooooooooooooo]

I love disc brakes, but I don't understand why they work so much better than rim brakes. What is it that they can do on the discs that isn't possible on the rim? Does it just dry quicker from the generated heat because the area is smaller?

Can somebody explain?

[SteadyPetesFPVquadracing]

ONE tiny drop of any oil and its not working anymore.

[Mtblife_A]

My discbrake is sh!t and there hydraulic squeaky screams and inconsistent asf

[_Safety_Third_]

Just wait until abs becomes mainstream on mountain bikes:

[Bristolsketchpad]

Day one 1 of asking for a mountain bike

[dominicomucci]

Dude showing his.age thinking v brakes stopped working in the rain 😂

Those nad boys worked through mud they are awesome.

Still got an old school trek with v brakes. Awesome bike.

[Thedoug]

Yeah, they work when wet, but they squeal like a scalded rat.