HardKnox wrote:
I am familiar. It was horrible.
If you're volunteering to put your hand in a trispoke spinning at 35mph to show me how much different it is, I'll buy you a pair. Video posted to this thread, please. Is the forum familiar with this from three days ago?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRM3bFXlyNk -- maybe discs would have helped.
You realize that the crash was caused by rider error, right? Had very little, if anything to do with braking issues. And again, I am not arguing against the idea of discs on the road necessarily.
Another strawman. See previous post.
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If you look hard enough, you can find an example of any component having a catastrophic failure or contributing to a bad injury. But I'm having trouble finding widespread reports of severe burns, chopped-off fingers or career-ending injuries from bicycle disc brakes, which have been used widely in MTB for over a decade.
More strawmen. We are not talking about a "catastrophic failure". We are talking about the potential of injury as a result of normal product use. If you aren't aware of people burning themselves with disc rotors from MTB, I would suggest you aren't paying close enough attention.
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MAIN POINT: I believe that the relative risk is hugely overstated. Another poster in this thread nicely summarized the empirical evidence --- that there is little likelihood of all rotors being hot at the time of a multi-rider crash. In fact, a major benefit of disks is that they dissipate heat relatively quickly.
perhaps.....that is what the trial period is for (among other reasons). I don't see what the problem is with raising potential issues ahead of time. (side note - the other poster's summary is NOT empirical evidence. Logical, perhaps....empirical, no.)
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*Also, "necessary" is ALL relative because this is a hobby. Helmets weren't deemed necessary until the early 2000s, and now there are people on this very forum who will tell you that they SITLL aren't necessary. That's what I'm trying to point out -- the fact that we are all discussing/disagreeing over something selfish and expensive and totally unnecessary to life.
Still building strawmen....and helmets have been necessary since the 80's. But you cannot have a bicycle without some form of a stem system or a saddle. Nor can you race without a helmet. You can both have a bike and race without discs.
Again, I am not against road discs necessarily, but I do think they aren't really that necessary either. Gravel / Cross bikes? Sure, absolutely. Do the benefits of a disc system extend to a "oure" road or TT bike? Sure. Do those advantages outweight the negatives? Yet to be proved.
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