Good points, I think bikers gotten along just fine with rim brakes before disc brakes came along. And I also think that since then, the options for the kinds of terrain that can be ridden on a bike have really opened up.
You can easily bike on sand, snow, rock gardens pretty easily. Of course some of these routes and terrain have been traversed by rim brakes, but aren't we here because the idea of biking comfortably appeals to us? Sometimes that comfort can come in disc brakes, whether really wide tires dictates, or whether we feel it has predictable stopping power regardless of weather / terrain conditions. Sometimes it can come in the form of suspension forks. I regularly took my canti brake VO Camargue out the local mtb trails which are very rooty and rocky, and while it was fun the first couple of times, I stopped going as it became less and less so. My first run-in with disc brakes were about 10 years ago, and I was not impressed. However, when I test rode a Crust Evasion with Paul Klampers, I was very impressed. On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 2:38:50 PM UTC-4, Garth wrote: > > While I understand the surface appeal of swapping out wheels for > wildly different tires, I wonder though, what about the handling with such > varying sets ? For example, I ask myself...... would I want to ride my > Bomba with really fat tires and road tires ? No. And would I want to > ride really fat tires on my road bike ? No. I say this because bike > frames are designed with a certain handling and feel within a relatively > small range of tire widths. This includes not just the dimensions of the > frame itself but also the type, shape and gauge of steel. Then you have > handlebars and how controlling the bike will feel with vastly different > tires. > > I get "the sell" of a chameleon do-it-all like bike, but myself I don't > spend alot of time thinking about my bikes when I'm not riding, nor do I > want to. When I want to ride I just want to ride, the less tinkering the > better. Even swapping wheels means I still need another set of wheels, > same as on another whole bike. I live with 2 different bikes and like that > I have distinctly different bikes ready to go at-hand. > > For the while minimal-ism thing, would not one bike and one bike alone > be "minimal" ? Adding another set of wheels make it minimal +1 ..... oh > well . what's a little fudging in a "standard" that cannot be ever be met ? > Ahahahahaha ! > > > Different strokes for different folks of course, and so no one can be > more/less right/wrong than anyone else ! > > > ( this Google groups formatting when trying to compose a message is uh > ..... wonky at best !) > > > > > On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 at 1:17:43 PM UTC-4, Jeff wrote: >> >> >> ... >> They didn't swap wheelsets with different diameters and wildly different >> width tires in a matter of seconds, or at all, with caliper, canti or >> v-brakes. >> >> The ability to swap wheel sizes and tire widths in ways that was not >> previously available to me was not my original focus in moving to disc >> brakes, but, it has become a great feature, when selecting the right bike >> frame, to be able to maintain fewer complete bikes with an extra wheelset >> or two, to be able to satisfy a wider range of riding situations. >> >> >> >> > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
