Road Bike Rim Or Disc Brakes

Rim brakes look cleaner and classic to me.

Road bike rim or disc brakes. Disc brakes weigh more when road cyclists are often doing everything they can to make their bike as light as possible for speed reasons the addition of discs brakes will add weight to a bike. Disc brakes especially hydraulic disc brake systems are generally heavier than rim brakes. That doesn t mean that if you run rim brakes you re going to crash into the first corner you come across in the rain well you might but it isn t because of your brakes. Like any other external component disc brakes affect aerodynamics.

Disc brakes will offer you better braking in the rain that rim brakes. It might just be in my head but my rim brake bike just feels snappier and quicker than the disc brake bike. Folks doing longer distance rides including touring or even week long events like ride the rockies or ragbrai often have to deal with variations in weather. 3 disc brakes affect aerodynamics.

You can help your rim brake performance in the wet. So glad it came with disc brakes hydraulic as the stopping power with me on the bike plus an extra 70 80 lbs was much better than it would have been with rim brakes. I switched to a road bike with disc brakes 18 months ago and i won t ever go back to rim brakes if you think rim brakes can stop you as fast as disc brakes either your disc brakes aren t set up properly or you re not riding fast enough to notice the difference.