@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
@feld@cycling@mastobikes@tk i've had v-brakes on all my childhood bikes until i was 14 or so and they always sucked, when you down the bike in the bushes and the link caught on something you'd have to put them back together correctly before riding and god beware you didn't check every time, having disk brakes was a huge upgrade, i never had to do any real maintenance on my disk brakes for over a decade and then swapped the bowden-link-actuated calipers for cheap hydraulic ones. sticking to rim brakes is a gimmick, they suck, like carburetted engines or writing with typewriters.