Brucey wrote:reohn2 wrote:
NOTE:- my answers are in bold type within the quoted post.
well let's just say your experiences differ from mine, and that of other folks too. As an example of how far off beam you are on most of the above here are some examples of something you were probably most dismissive of;
Because this post,in particularly these photos,irk so much and give such a false picture of discs I've decided I'll give it one last shot.
If discs pose such a threat to health why aren't disc rotors,chainrings,brake levers even,guarded?
I'll give you a clue,it's because the threat of injury is so small as to be insignificant
There are many other everyday potential injurious and unguarded implements such as chainsaws,axes,kitchen knives,gas cookers,etc,etc,that are far worse than disc brakes!
The point is that anyone can prove anything to be a danger to the public by grabbing a few horror stories off the web,in this case you're grasping at straws to prove a point so obscure as to be practically none existent.
People do this all the time to try and prove cycling as a whole to be so dangerous as to need a helmet and other protective equipment to nip out to the shops for a paper!
I can further justify every single point I made originally, but honestly, I don't feel the need to do so; most of them are self-evident or are fairly common knowledge
But you do need to prove it because your claims aren't self-evident or common knowledge to the people who use discs!
Mine and many other people who use disc brakes prove your opinions on discs to be wrong daily.
If other brakes work for you,and your points about drums are valid IMO,that's fine I've no quarrel with that but stop the dragging down of disc brakes by unfounded opinion when others opinions differ from yours.
There's no such thing as a perfect brake, and workarounds exist for many of the drawbacks in various different braking systems. But -as some here seem to want to do- simply to pretend that various drawbacks in disc brakes simply don't exist or don't ever matter is real head in the sand stuff, surely?
cheers
I never claimed there was perfect brake and I don't pretend anything or stick my head in the sand
There are bound to be drawbacks to any system,whatever the system,but I refute most of your percieved drawbacks,I refute them by experience over a decade of use and I gave my reasons for that.
I hope that's clear enough,though I strongly suspect it won't be for you.
I speak from experience of riding a variety of rim brakes and one type of cable disc brake.
I have nothing more to add to this discussion other than to say that I know what works best for me and tire of the anti disc brake nonsense trotted out by others on the forum and will now withdraw.
