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pad rub at the drop of a spoke.
Sounds like you've just ridden shit or badly set up discs, hydraulics are pretty much fit and forget. If you're just doing roady/fixie shit then a good rim brake is plenty good enough, just not as good.
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Sounds like you've just ridden shit or badly set up discs, hydraulics
are pretty much fit and forget. If you're just doing roady/fixie shit
then a good rim brake is plenty good enough, just not as good.No, I don't have any bikes with discs. Worked on plenty as a mechanic though, during their introduction to road bikes. Some of what I witnessed would've been down to teething issues, but the rest just goes with discs.
Some folks will never experience a single issue for sure, but when you do get an issue it can be a proper PITA, unlike with rim brakes where just about any drama is a piece of piss to sort, if dramas with rim brakes were even a thing.
Kimmo
Not into discs at all, despite their advantages. Do not like. Don't like squeals, sensitivity to contamination, hydraulic hassles or constant cable adjustment (although hybrid is a great compromise on that score), pad rub at the drop of a hat, otherwise unnecessary and asymmetric frameset reinforcement, front wheel dish and minimum 24h, fugly rotors and hydro levers.
That's a longer list of cons than consumable rims, limited wet braking and possibly inferior modulation, although those are admittedly bigger cons. I like the purity, but not an absolutist since I'm down with Di2.
And yeah, not interested in QRs, but allen head or anti theft skewers are a lovely way to secure a wheel (even though I do feel it's a bit light-on).