Fabian Cancellara has said he will not switch to disc brakes in his final season, despite new UCI rules sparking a de facto approval for disc brakes in professional peloton in 2016.
Cancellara is a traditionalist and fearful of losing a major Classic due to a technical problem or innovation. He is one of a handful of riders who still use mechanical gears and has no intention of changing his equipment in 2016, despite Trek Segafredo being sponsored by Shimano and Trek having disc-brake-equipped bikes on sale to the public.
A Trek Madone on show at the Segafredo press conference was fitted with direct-mount pivot brakes. Cancellara is convinced that the bike has all the stopping power he needs, despite enjoying winter rides on a disc-brake-equipped Trek Boone cyclo-cross bike in the forest near his home in Switzerland.
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Cancellara is one of the first riders to speak about the introduction of disc brakes in 2016.
"I'm not going to change things in my final year. I don't see it as a change that will help me go faster or make me go slower," Cancellara told journalists at the Trek Segafredo event in Treviso.
"We're not expecting to use them in the Classics. It's a technical and a personal decision. I'm the only rider who still uses manual (mechanical) Shimano gears. That's my choice.
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