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You sure it's not a lot to do with hydraulic actuation? I've used hub discs with cables and they've usually been pretty ho-hum. Whereas hydraulics transform them, with the caveats I've mentioned. Provided the pads are correctly installed etc, hydraulic rim brakes are terrific (plus there's not...

These guys weren't 'picking on' anything, simply running through one of the main problems with hub disc brakes for bikes, as they exist. This is the brake component industry, remember, who stand to make a lot of extra money from the rollout of disc brakes - which I agree is largely inevitable if...

It's beyond amusing to read the jealous/nutter/ignoramus style comments, keep them coming, if for no other reason to provide more chuckles in another place! Especially so where those reading know of the tens of thousands of miles I've covered, frequently on heavily-laden wheels. Worth pointing...

The common lowish-set straight handlebar setup is hard on the wrists, elbows and shoulders, an unnatural position to stay in for long. The old-fashioned way was far easier on the body, so it's worth finding some bars which have your palms facing more inwards and which are higher up. If you're...

That's one way of searching the facts - counting pictures which sponsors have approved of. Otoh, I read this, some of which I posted above, "during the first stages, most teams rolled out on bikes with disc brakes (above the finish of Stage 5). Ironically, most of the disc brakes were on aero...

No, but they have to dump much more energy than a portly lady careering down Totnes high street, or some other death-defying descent which nothing less than a disc brake and fork-mounted caliper could deal with. Energy increases with the square of speed, linearly by mass. Someone will...

Vfr, you seem to be focussing on cables vs hydraulics, I tried to make this clear in my last post I'm talking about the advantages of rim brakes over disc. Your opinion that I havent ridden ebikes much (if at all) couldn't be much further from reality if you tried! I tried to make this clear in...

You're very sure of your opinions, vfr! I'm left wondering how you might believe the extra kilos carried by an ebike are so very different from the extra kilos carried in pannier bags, given you're sure I've not very much experience of riding an ebike? I wouldn't suggest that from your...

For most people, most of the time, cheaper disc setups (which is what most are despite a premium name) feel to work as well as cheaper V brakes, better in the wet. If you regularly ride through anything more than a thin layer of mud, discs make sense - they were designed for mountain bikes...

Temperatures on contemporary disc brakes (those with the tiny rotors bolted to the hub, rather than the out-of-fashion massive disc of yore) do rise and fall dramatically which increases problems no end, on top of lob-sidedly stressing forks and several other nasties which end up increasing mass...

Thanks, I've left my details in the PM.

Hi John, I'd like to have a look - are you in York itself? I'll PM you my contact number.