@feld Well, IMO this article is just biased. My wallet cried every time cork pads bit into the carbon rim. I have a set of aluminium wheels not fit for riding after just 3 winters due to the brake wear… Disc brakes and DB wheels ale less affected by the rain and mud. Never gonna buy rim brake bicycle again… @tk@cycling@mastobikes
@tk@cycling@mastobikes I’ll concede that there are applications where disc brakes-specifically hydraulic- are better than rim brakes. But those situations are, I think, wildly overstated, and usually far outside the use-cases of the vast majority of cyclists. #biketooter
@nothingfuture@tk@cycling@mastobikes I think the opposite is true; that the concerns around disk brakes are mostly of concern to people riding in pelotons - which are I think reasonable, the whole "adding spining pieces of sharp metal to a pile-up is bad" argument is pretty compelling - but that for almost everyone else, disc brakes are purely better.
Hopefully though "these brake is subtly better under these conditions" is an in-extremis question for everyone and all brakes are fine.
@feld Every time I get from a disc brake gravel to carbon rim road bike I feel like I have no brakes. Sure, DB can be noisy when dirty, but never ever had to doubt the stopping power or reliability. But ultimately, for me it’s more important in terms of the parts longevity, especially as expensive as wheels can be. The idea of brake pads chewing on the structural part of wheel just makes me straight scared, especially on steep downhills… @cycling@mastobikes
@feld@cycling@mastobikes@ssamulczyk disc brakes are worse in rain...... compared to drum brakes which are never used on bicycles but are (were) used in motorcycles. Compared to rim brakes they are more lore less the same in theory.
@tk@cycling@mastobikes They also require more skills, tools, and materials to maintain and repair.
Aside from that, a decent rim brake on an aluminium brake track has never failed me before, even in the worst conditions. And it pains me having to listen to the noise of wet or overheating discs on other people's bikes around me.
@feld@cycling@mastobikes@tk the "nobody asked for them" section is so incredibly out of touch. on basic entry level bikes for people who treat bikes as a commodity, disk brakes have been a sign of "modern quality product" for almost two decades now, everyone except ultra nerds wanted them on their bikes
@evelyn@bikes@mastobikes my ebike was stolen from a public place with medium traffic. I was pissed, but I still bought another one, I'm just more careful about when it gets locked up (relatively rarely).
@kudra@bikes@mastobikes
I'm kinda paranoid when/where I leave my #bike. I hardly ever leave my bike since I don't go out 🚴♀️ that much, unlike some who regularly #BikeToWork or to school.
Just really upsetting that the police mentioned in the article didn't care much to help or were limited by the law to do anything even though they already knew who had the stolen #bicycle. ☹️
My bike was stolen in front of a supermarket in the city center, in a place with a lot of pedestrian traffic. When I went to report the incident, I was shocked by the superficiality with which the police treated my situation, in the series let it go, "it happens!"
While a friend of mine had his PC, tablet stolen and presented to the police with all the geolocation coordinates of his devices, they almost reported him for stalking.
I have very long legs and a short torso, so "normal" bicycle frames never fit me very well. I always end up with a lot of seatpost height and a short stem, even though I'm leaned forward comfortably and with plenty of power in my pedal stroke.
I have very long legs and a short torso, so "normal" bicycle frames never fit me very well. I always end up with a lot of seatpost height and a short stem, even though I'm leaned forward comfortably and with plenty of power in my pedal stroke.
After over two decades, Surly moved the Cross-Check frameset from their standard lineup of bikes to the ‘Legacy Lineup’ of their website. Surly confirmed that the bike is no longer in production and is unlikely to come back.
If you haven’t owned this gravel/cyclocross/touring/whatever bike yourself, you likely know someone who has. The Surly Cross-Check was the egalitarian choice in cycling, simultaneously someone’s utilitarian dream bike that was attainable and sold at a fair price.
The end of the Cross-Check marks the bike’s reign as the most bike that ever biked, the go-to way to make a pile of parts you hoarded in the corner of your garage into a functioning bicycle, and the defacto option that a bike nerd could happily ride and recommend to their non-bikey friends all the same.
@tk@cycling@mastobikes@mhoye Aw, dang. I rejoined the cycling world 12 or 13 years ago on a black Cross Check. I loved it unreservedly, and kept it in my garage for years after I rode it regularly— it got displaced by lighter, shinier bikes — mostly out of sentimental reasons.
I finally sold it last year to a math grad student who rides it nearly every day.
@tk@cycling@mastobikes I did my first cyclocross race in college in 1999 when our collegiate cycling team put on a race on campus in the snow in January. I didn’t buy a real cross bike until 2002. Since then, I’ve been doing it every year (except for Covid) and it’s been my most successful racing discipline. I love it!
@chrishuck@tk@cycling@mastobikes
As a Swiss elite cycling racer told me once: cx is one hour of freezing, suffering and going way over your limits. So a perfect winter work out.
Mostly did road racing before the pandemic paused the season so I tried solo TT racing then tried CX which felt like it had the best of all worlds going for it.
First ever CX race was on a custom built 90s Hardrock MTB with drop bars. Fell over 3 times, had fun, and am in my third season of it.