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  • Would be great in the mud.

    As for why - the team is using disc wheels in ALL their races. They had to adapt their cars and stuff to suit the new bikes so it's an all or nothing change to discs.

  • Strikes me as weird they even tried them there.

    Commercial reasons, no doubt. Whatever their suitability for this race, it's a big showcase.

  • They had to adapt their cars and stuff to suit the new bikes so it's an all or nothing change to discs.

    Ah - I did not know this. Interesting.

  • I disagree about them being in an infant phase, they're new to road but the tech is mature, right?

    I've got R685s and they're leaps and bounds ahead of rim brakes in stopping power, modulation, working exactly the same when piss wet and not wearing down my rims every time I brake.

  • Actually, the article claims Direct Energie but it was Roompot I was thinking of. I'm not sure if DE have been running discs all season. Roompot definitely said in an interview they'd had to adapt their cars and vans and stuff and that each rider was getting 3 bikes for the year and they all had to be disc brakes.

    This makes it sound like DE changed just for P-R:
    http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/another-team-switches-disc-brakes-ahead-paris-roubaix-219892

    One off or just appropriate time to try new bikes?

  • I tried riding on some mechanical discs on a CX bike and was quite disappointed tbh-really hard to modulate, and quite abrubt when they did actually stop. A well set up rim brake is, in my opinion, better than shit discs. Yet I do recognise hydraulic is supposed to be much better, so I'll reserve final judgement but till then, quite happy with rim brakes.

    If it aint breakin' don't fix it kind of thing.

  • <<< This dickhead is putting discs on his latest bike and hippy is always right so discs for everyone, bitches!

  • Swings around roundabouts init. They make sense for punters. Punters want confidence and consistency. Not a whole lot of sense for pros - pros don't perform by slowing and stopping better and they stop fine - in most cases - because they have access to top quality brake calipers, pads and a limitless supply of rims and the mad-skills from riding bikes all day every day.

    It's only where a rim brake is genuinely a bit scary - i.e. wet long mountain descent on carbon rims - that there's a clear case to the pro. It's good that they have access to them though if only for the limited cases where the disc is a clear winner.

  • I think what makes a lot of people skeptical of their true worth is that in the peloton they seem to be imposed from above by manufacturers as opposed to genuinely seen as a desirable improvement from the riders. This and comedy stories of people wearing out three sets of pads at CX races has left me with a lasting 'pinch of salt' feeling when it comes to them-as much as setting up cantis can be a spiky stick to the scrotum sometimes.

    Punter-wise I guess they're seen as an improvement just because apart from the industrial stopping action they're new and flashy and they're less likely to actually tinker with them or replace pads/rotors themselves. I guess the 'rims last foreva' aspect also ties in, though I suspect most folk buy a new bike before that ever happens anyway.

  • I tried riding on some mechanical discs on a CX bike and was quite disappointed tbh-really hard to modulate, and quite abrubt when they did actually stop. A well set up rim brake is, in my opinion, better than shit discs

    Yeah, my experience with mechanical discs too. Much prefer rim to disc for mechanical brakes.

  • xxxx

    da-9000-brake-caliper.jpg

  • https://www.facebook.com/SBSCyclingCentral/videos/10154073243483427/?fref=nf

    Love the contrast in commentary. Eurosport didn't even mention Hayman until he'd won it. :P

    These boys don't see anyone else :)

  • This dickhead is putting discs on his latest bike...

    I'm sure I speak for everyone here, when I say that I genuinely look forward to the impending post-a-geddon.

    [makes diary note to unignore this thread in 8 months]

  • What do you mean? It's already been and gone. I've bought the discs, the rotors, etc. Just need hubs and rims now.

  • Pictures from Paris-Roubaix, if anyone's interested
    https://www.flickr.com/photos/36707747@N07/albums/72157667070252585

  • Great photos - would love to have seen them in colour!

  • They could easily be published.. send them round.

  • Eurosport mentioned Hayman a lot actually before he won it, very early on :p
    Even had a stat graphic on him for how many times he's ridden the race and talked about his odds. I nearly put a bet on, damn.

  • Really good pics

  • Impressed

  • Cancellara's fall at P-R apparently caused by oil from a crashed 'tourist motorbike', according to road.cc

  • cough bullshit cough

    Although I wonder if @skinny has a little confession to make...

  • Classy name-n-shame photo there too, wonder what journalistic discussions were had before publishing

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