Brandane
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You get like the people you hang about on a cycle forum with. God help me!Of the contributors here, I wouldn't have put you down as a Luddite.
You get like the people you hang about on a cycle forum with. God help me!Of the contributors here, I wouldn't have put you down as a Luddite.
It's a shame Mavic aren't making ceramic rims in road sizes any more. Rims don't wear out. Nor do you get covered in black alloy gunk when handling the wheel.
Anyone mix them up? Having read this thread, I might just put the Norco disc fork on the Scott...
Yup, pricey, but they last way more than twice as long (presuming you don't ding them). Sadly the Grizzly is not the rim for my bike.God damn I hate that stuff. Didn't realise ceramic rims stopped it. Don't Rigida still make some?
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Looks like they do - the Rigida Grizzly (19mm internal width). Pricey though at £70; I usually only spend about £30 on a rim.
Anyone mix them up? Having read this thread, I might just put the Norco disc fork on the Scott...
Were his brakes making that noise at the beginning of the ride?Case in point, today I've been out for a ride with a couple of mates. The roads were filthy in places and the unrelenting grinding from one of lads bike every time he used his rim brakes was horrible to listen to, compounded by him struggling to slow down which led to him being very cautious on descents, while my discs just worked, virtually silently, time after time.
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I made the mistake of putting mudguards on my best bike for the recent winter. I not only wore out a set of brake blocks in about 10 weeks of occasional riding, I also wore halfway through the rims of my best wheels too!
I probably will not be buying another road bike in the near future but if/when I finally do, it will have disk brakes.
Then why did you specifically mention your carbon?You could say that for any wheel that has rim that wears on use.....not just carbon
Were his brakes making that noise at the beginning of the ride?
No, the grinding under braking started within a couple of miles of us setting off though.