Shimano: "We have not been able to meet demand for Dura-Ace and Ultegra hydraulics. There is a good chance we will see disc eclipse rim brake in total sales in 2018.â€
SRAM: “For model year 2018 product, discs represented 67 percent of all sales, Zellmann says, compared to 44 percent for model year 2017. (Model years are often a year ahead of the actual calendar. For example, SRAM sold MY2018 brakes during 2017.) Of those MY2018 sales, discs represented a whopping 87 percent of road brakes sold as OE to bike brands, according to SRAM. For aftermarket sales, discs represented 13 percent of road bike sales.”
I just bought and put together a Canyon Aeroad with disc brakes. I also have a fat bike with disc brakes. I don’t really understand the industry push in this direction but I gave up on fighting it and I know my next tri bike purchase a few years from now will end up having disc brakes. I do like the lack of fiddling with brakes though. Not going to lie.
I do like the lack of fiddling with brakes though. Not going to lie.
Oh, there will be fiddling. Trust me, there will be fiddling. So long as you want brakes that don’t pulse or squeak you’ll have to constantly true your rotors. I’m far from some lone voice in the desert on this issue.
I do like the lack of fiddling with brakes though. Not going to lie.
Oh, there will be fiddling. Trust me, there will be fiddling. So long as you want brakes that don’t pulse or squeak you’ll have to constantly true your rotors. I’m far from some lone voice in the desert on this issue.
I know there will be eventual fiddling. I just like that there’s not as much fiddling, yet.
Shimano: "We have not been able to meet demand for Dura-Ace and Ultegra hydraulics.
Yeah… seriously! Have been waiting for the damn Ultegra 8070 shifters for 6 months. Not too keen on dropping $800 on the Dura-Ace model and certainly can’t consider the massive hoods on the old di2/hydro levers.
I have done 20,000 km on disc brakes and I have never had to touch them yet. I do a bit more on my mtb, but you are not exactly smashing through rock gardens on your road bike, how the hell do you bend a road rotor outside a crash ?
Haha not shooting the messenger either way. I’m not exactly surprised about the numbers, since a lot of bike manufactures are pushing disks now.
I don’t really care either way I’m just not running out the door to trade in my bikes for disc brakes when they work completely fine.
This sport does have a lot of people with a lot of sticking money who will do just that and then sell it next year after their 1 Ironman triathlon.
Is the main argument just stopping power? My road bike has rim brakes. My gravel/adventure bike has disc brakes. stopping power has never been an issue. at least with rim brakes I know how to adjust them and they’re pretty simple.
Haha not shooting the messenger either way. I’m not exactly surprised about the numbers, since a lot of bike manufactures are pushing disks now.
I don’t really care either way I’m just not running out the door to trade in my bikes for disc brakes when they work completely fine.
This sport does have a lot of people with a lot of sticking money who will do just that and then sell it next year after their 1 Ironman triathlon.
Two thinks;
Maybe disc with a k (disk) is a good way differentiate between a real disc wheel (the flat fast thing on the back of the bike) and one with silly brakes. Sort of like Crab versus Krab, respectively.
I wonder what percentage of tri bike purchases are for an “I am going to do an Ironman” bucket list item.
There are tons of threads on here of me and Tom A. fighting haha. Better stopping power and the ability to use carbon rims is why the switch is happening. A possible aero advantage but it won’t be much.
There are tons of threads on here of me and Tom A. fighting haha. Better stopping power and the ability to use carbon rims is why the switch is happening. A possible aero advantage but it won’t be much.
okay. I see. I guess for myself just being a typical MOPer these haven’t been issues for me. Carbon rims certainly aren’t the limiting factor for me. I’ve never had stopping power issues with rim brakes that I’m aware of. I suppose if I was riding in more mountainous terrain with very steep descents the stopping power issue would be more relevant. But I don’t care either way. I’ll stick with the bikes I have and when it comes time to buy a new one if it has disc brakes that’s fine.
That’s exactly what you should do! Instead of getting upset about it just buy whatever bike is out when you are ready to upgrade. I still ride my 2011 P2 and I’m waiting for Specialized to release a new Shiv and for Felt, Trek, etc. to release disc brake bikes before I make the jump.
“We are going to stop selling full rim-brake road bikes, and will only sell them as framesets,†says Specialized PR spokesman Sean Estes.
That caught me by surprise considering they just came out with a new Venge six months ago and I know that’s a popular bike. I’ve never been one to care much about weight but my LBS had a custom S-Works build on the floor that weighed ~13lbs in a 54 and I thought to myself “damn that’s cool”.
I don’t mind the trend either. I just won’t trash what I have to adopt quicker. No point. Sure, the next purchase “may” be disc.
I was about to say I thought they tend to push pricier group sets with hydro discs vs. mech discs, but was proved wrong when I bothered to search. Plenty of 105 stuff I see with hydro discs now.
How “swappable” are disc wheels between bikes? Let’s say you have a hydro disc race roadie and a hydro disc CX bike. Weather turns good so you want to throw the roadie wheels on the CX bike for a road ride without breaking out the race roadie in the winter.
Is that as simple as moving over normal rim braked stuff? Or do the disc setups have to be identical? I thought there were different diameter discs and things that could complicate it.
Rotors have to be the same diameter (ie., you can’t easily swap a 140 rotor with a 160 rotor).
I’ve noticed that some rotor appear to be ever so slightly thicker/thinner and that can affect ‘rub’. You might have to adjust the calipers if you’re running different rotors
The actual placement of the rotor on the hub should be consistent between wheels, however, slight lateral deviations may require you to reposition / realign the calipers.
For a wrench-inclined person, this is no big-deal.
I have done 20,000 km on disc brakes and I have never had to touch them yet. I do a bit more on my mtb, but you are not exactly smashing through rock gardens on your road bike, how the hell do you bend a road rotor outside a crash ?
Just bump it in transit or while hanging it up at home or have someone bump it while a group is stopped at a gas station. It doesn’t take much force to throw a throw a rotor out of true.
