Disc brakes on road bikes

[Binky]

Ultegra brakes? There's your problem, then. Should have gone with Weinmann.

The hydraulic disc brakes on my new bike also Ultegra so there is that.

 

[Webbo2]

Ultegra brakes? There's your problem, then. Should have gone with Weinmann.

Do you know that saying “Do something every day that scares you” well try stopping with Weinmann brakes will give you that.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I took the mudguards off my bike a month or so back to make it easier to transport. So this weekend I put them back. And it got me thinking - how do you attach mudguards to a bike without a brake bridge or drilled fork?

A quick search round the interwebs and I have discovered the elephant in the room, the Achilles heel of disc brakes, the fatal flaw: Mudguards for disc brakes are right shonky affairs, held on with of elastic bands, cable ties and chewing gum.

Whereas my guards are held on snugly with proper metal bridges under the brake calipers.

 

[Profpointy]

Do you know that saying “Do something every day that scares you” well try stopping with Weinmann brakes will give you that.

I was hugely envious of my pals with Weinman brakes on their "racers", compared to the Raleigh own brand shyte on my own shopper bike. They could even slow down in the wet!

To be fair with modern improved pads, and even more so after putting alloy rims on, my own later "racer" stopped pretty well with Weinmann centre pulls. Sure my subsequent bike with cantis, or my fixie's Shimano side pulls are better, but properly set up Weinmann's were perfectly OK.

Admittedly with steel rims and 70s rubber pads, they weren't much cop in the wet, but neither would anything else have bee