Lovacott
Über Member
Horses for courses.Even the cheapest no name V brakes seem to work well. Probably the biggest unrecognised improvement in bike brakes of the last few decades. The drawback being, that as fitted usually to MTBs the extra power helps to grind the environment into the rims, which doesn't help with rim longevity. Hence the move to discs on anything but a basic model nowadays. On a general purpose hybrid or round town type MTB, not such a problem, and a good brake.
On muddy back roads, you can't beat discs but they cost a bit to maintain.
On proper roads, you are better off with rim brakes.
For stopping power, I can't notice any difference between the rim brakes on my road bike and the discs on the MTB?
That said, my judgement is slightly skewed because I never take the road bike out in the wet.
That's the joy of having more than one bike (as of today, my bike count is three and the missus is talking divorce).