What with? I didn’t have a worm with me, if it had been a tubeless tyre, I’d have had to take it off to patch it, which would have lost the sealant, then I’d have had to run it with a tube, which would have been a messy job either way.
Rim brakes will hag round, but in the same way that DT shifters have, on low end bikes or old classics.
Nip into your local motor accessory shop and see how many budget mountain bikes are fitted with disc brakes. Discs are not a new invention, they are universal fitments on cars and motorcycles and are accepted as the norm. Among casual cyclists who just want basic transport there will be no opposition to disc brakes, they will instead be seen as a plus - indeed they already are.
Very much this, indeed as Discs become more associated with high end bikes, it will be seen as necessary to have them on the cheapest bikes. Only they won't work very well, rather like the brakes they currently fit.
Add the word ‘yet’.
Of course rim brakes would, cheap stamped steel bends and breaks no matter where it is placed. My experience of using cheap BSOs has been that the brakes universally don't work out of the box. Even a lot of fettling fails to get them to work.
Another good point. The sorts of rider who want discs on their road bike, tend to be exactly the sorts of rider who will right royally knacker them in short order.
I’m not talking theoretically here, I speak from experience. A discer road bike with thru axles and tubeless tyres is a nightmare waiting to happen. I had levers and a spare tube, but with another 45 miles to do when the tyre got holed, I’d rather not have had to use them, good job too as it transpired, because the ( non slime ) replacement tube, would have died on the consequent punctures, and then I’d have had to walk the bike to a train station.
