FishFright
More wheels than sense
a broken rim is likely to slow you down
there are disc brakes and disc brakes though. No comparison to a set of decent hydrolics and the crap they put on supermarket BSOs. I was adjusting those for a friends kid and they have less stopping power than the 1980's side pull calipers on my old Pug. Purely an ornamental.gimic for the "disc brakes must be good" brigade.
Would you say they were better or worse than the average rim brake fitted to BSO's ? Where I used to live I helped out the local commuters keep their BSO's working and the brakes were without exception appalling . All rim brakes and i have no experience with DBSO's*
*Disc Brake Shaped Objects