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My thoughts echo your own.
I'm also fettling the tandem this week - come mid-July we're taking it up and down the alps around France and Italy. I was looking into getting a disc fork made up for easy improved stopping, but ran out of time and motivation so instead am pursuing a dynamo front wheel as a useful upgrade (just not useful for stopping...). The bike's been making some annoying creaking over the last few rides, so time for new chains all round and a bit of disassembly/grease/reassembly. It also needs a new headset fitting as we've split the lower cup on the old one. Thankfully got one in the cupboard, somewhere...
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Downhillers still manage to cook 203mm discs though.
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My tandem has a gigantic 203mm rotor on the rear, plus Avid V-brakes on front+rear. It's been built years and years ago by knowledgeable people on a tandem-specific shop. However, I always found a bit strange that the dual rear brake is set up as rim=drag and disc=regular.
I'd have thought that the benefit of Hope's massive rotor is how well it copes with heat, making it ideal for drag break duties. Also it'd take heat away from rims, which can only be a good thing. Or am I missing something?
I'm doing some work on it this week, could take the chance to invert setup if knowledgeable people on here advice so.