Disc brakes on road bikes

[Ming the Merciless]

Anyone still using rod brakes?

 

[ktmbiker58]

Anyone still using rod brakes?

Would you believe I was recently looking at a Gazelle Dutch bike from the 90s and it had rod brakes to hub brakes!!!! The rear brake linkage was a work of art with 2 bell cranks

 

[Punkawallah]

Like it or not, disc brakes are now the standard. It is cheaper for mfg to buy one type of brake due to economies of scale. Since the majority of cyclist approve of disc brakes, that is what everyone is going to get.

No. I really am not.

 

[Punkawallah]

Anyone still using rod brakes?

I was gifted serviced and rode a Rudge Whitworth Gentleman’s Roadster (1936) a few years ago. Does that count?
Turns had to be plotted in your diary, and the brakes were not the best, but survivable.

 

[Banjo]

I am not able to repeatedly change gear with brifters ,my Jamis touring bike has bar end shifters which I can use and think they are great.
With Disc brakes becoming almost universal I just hope spares for rim brakes (and bar end shifters remain available).