Friday, 16 December 2016

Over to you: Is 2017 the year rim brakes finally become extinct?

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Ahh, disc brakes on road bikes. Has there been a more hotly debated topic on BikeRadar in the last few years?

If you take the comments sections on here and our YouTube channel as a litmus test of what most riles commenters it’s pretty clear that a lot of people have some very strong opinions about disc brakes on bendy bared bikes.

Battled out with the ferocity of a celebrity Twitter feud, it regularly strikes me as quite remarkable just how passionate people get about the subject of what makes you stop on a road bike.

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The arguments are almost always the same. Those firmly in the pro-rotor camp praise the increased power, modulation, clearances and reliability that disc brakes afford.

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