On Friday, May 8, 2015 at 8:09:46 AM UTC-7, Steve Cole wrote: > Has anyone heard any rumors about a future Riv being introduced with disc > brakes? >
My money is on disc brakes appearing as a "drag brake" for the Rivendell tandem, if that ever becomes reality. On singles, it's hard to see anyone needing more than well-spec'ed and adjusted rim (disc) brakes, especially with the "no extreme biking" clause. And especially with disc brakes requiring their own set of design parameters that aren't entirely compatible with at least Rivendellian aesthetics (e.g., stiffened up fork blades and differently-oriented opening of the front dropouts). Perhaps I'll sing a different tune if I lived somewhere that gets more rain (I'm a year-round bike commuter in the SF bay area), and my rims get chewed up regularly. However, even when it did rain here during winter years ago, an appropriate choice of brake pads and quick sprays at the wheels when I got home appeared to have helped. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
