disc brakes

[OakLeaf]

that might injure me.

How many times, in a crash, have you got an arm or leg into your spokes? Right. I can see where pro 'crossers might be wary, but it's a pretty unlikely place for body parts to wind up for most riders.

Basically you'll see the biggest advantage when you're stopping a lot of weight (heavy and/or heavily loaded bikes, tandems, heavier riders) and in the wet. That makes sense about carbon wheels too, though all my weight weenie buddies use rim brakes with their carbon wheels.

If you typically have to be alert not to lock up your rim brakes, then it's unlikely you'll see much or any advantage from discs. If you can grab a big handful of nothing happens ... or if you grab a big handful and it slows you gradually ... that's when discs could've helped.


Hydraulic brakes on semi-floating discs are self adjusting. Bleeding the lines is a bit of a pain, but as compared to adjusting canti rim brakes, probably about equal.