So I'm buying a new road bike as a reward for finishing my medical residency in June, or as I like to call it, the 24th grade. I'm going to be ordering a Breadwinner Cycles Lolo custom steel road frame and will build it up with SRAM Etap. I'm having a real hard time deciding on ordering a rim brake or disc brake frame. Here are my thoughts.
-I never intentionally ride in the rain. If the weather is crappy, I'm on the Kickr.
-I live in the South, so riding conditions aren't ever really that treacherous (i.e. snow, ice, etc.)
-I like to work on my own bikes and I like the simplicity of rim brakes.
-I have never felt that rim brake stopping power was inadequate, even riding in the mountains of North Carolina on vacation.
So it appears that I should buy a rim brake frame. BUT, I feel that the industry is heading toward disc brakes and I don't want to buy a "forever" frame with technology that will be near obsolete anytime soon. That would be literally the only reason I would buy a disc frame.
Anybody have any thoughts?
-I never intentionally ride in the rain. If the weather is crappy, I'm on the Kickr.
-I live in the South, so riding conditions aren't ever really that treacherous (i.e. snow, ice, etc.)
-I like to work on my own bikes and I like the simplicity of rim brakes.
-I have never felt that rim brake stopping power was inadequate, even riding in the mountains of North Carolina on vacation.
So it appears that I should buy a rim brake frame. BUT, I feel that the industry is heading toward disc brakes and I don't want to buy a "forever" frame with technology that will be near obsolete anytime soon. That would be literally the only reason I would buy a disc frame.
Anybody have any thoughts?