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The screaming was deafening!!! From all the peanut gallery..discs, discs, discs!!!!Gotta put the reservoir someplace and they will work great. Much better than spam's etap and hydros..that's right-ain't none..
They answer no question, solve no problem for the vast majority of 'enthusiats'. If ya ride everyday, with deep carbon rims, in the rain..sure..but for the average punt on his 25 mile sunday ride in the sunshine..yeegads...[/quote]
No team rode with discs in Milan San Remo.[/quote]
Of course not, none on Strada Bianchi(lots of dirt) either. Why some(mostly US) think they gotta have that disc brake 'GRoad bike, is beyond me. And most won't have them even at P-R or Flanders. I know a lot of the Campag, NA guys, they talk to real, genuine, pros all the time. They ask, 'what needs to be improved on bike kit?', these guys never say 'brakes'...
For right above, "for the slight advantage disc brakes would give"..heavier, less 'aero', more expensive...what advantage, on this, 50 degree, dry day, race?[/quote]
There are photos of Stephen Roche and Paul Kimmage on Stickybottle.com racing a cyclocross race in Dublin Ireland on normal racing bikes, standard caliper brakes.
Sometimes people can get to wound up on the smallest of details.
the bike industry is being stupid and greedy.[/quote]
Except that the bike industry is nothing to do with racing. Racing is just the shop window for some of the sectors of bike sales, that is all.
Technology progresses, but it is not really driven by the needs of racers. It is driven by the need to innovate. Some innovations are valuable, some less so. As Busted knuckle says, for your average Sunday fairweather rider disc brakes are pretty irrelevant. They are nice, but certainly not very useful, let alone essential.
If however, you ride in all weathers, discs work. Plus they don't grind your rims down, and so open up the possibility of investing in rims that last.[/quote]
Win on Sunday, sell on Monday. If they guy who just won P-R had discs, you'd see it the next day. Thankfully he didn't but some guy got sliced by a rotor in a crash..sliced to the bone, sliced. Won't be the last time. 'GRoad' bikes, gotta have discs while pros shrug their collective shoulders.