Steve Austin
The Marmalade Kid
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Why? Extra cost, extra weight, non-progressive braking....cheadle hulme said:I'd love hydros on my road bike.
april74 said:Samuel Johnson's quote on women preachers springs to mind.
Normal road brakes are good enough for Tour de Fance riders and for me.
ASC1951 said:Why? Extra cost, extra weight, non-progressive braking....
I have them - Campag dual pivots. I don't need to stop on a sixpence and mine need adjusting a lot less than any hydraulic disks I have come across. Stopping on a sixpence also allows the peloton to go over your head, which is another reason why Tour riders don't use them.Steve Austin said:If you want brakes that rarely need adjusting, do not get affected by weather and always stop on a sixpence, then hydraulic discs are the answer.
Not with mountings like that, we won't. That set-up was for a cyclo-crosser. Roadies need to be able to apply gentle braking while cornering at speed - unlike MTBers, who in the immortal words of Lyndon Johnson, often can't fart and chew gum at the same time.in the near future we will be running hydraulic discs on road bikes.
Tynan said:my previous hybrid had discs, all they can do is lock the wheel surely?
that's not at all hard on my road bike with regular brakes, granted there's a lag in the wet