Rim brakes are not dead, in fact, they are officially BACK. We’ll be looking at the new C68, and discussing WHY Colnago are keeping rim brakes alive.
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29 Comments
Do you think other brands will follow in Colnago's footsteps and bring out new bike models with rim brakes?
Like everything else in the bike industry… this is a marketing gimmic as it is aimed at the older cyclist who has a disposable income where this is pocket money!!
I wouldn't trade my C59 for a new C68. Traditional frame set, rim brakes. Love the lugged frame sets.
I never swapped to disc. From first hand witnessing on the Col du Aspin with a friend with disc brakes I can confirm that disc brakes glow hotter and start slipping faster than rim brakes on long descents. Smaller braking surface. Basic physics… .. I use Campag mechanical Record and skeleton rim brakes with hand built Pianni wheels. I travel abroad with a spare gear and brake cable and a few spokes and I can fix almost everything myself. Every time I meet someone with the full modern 'Pro' setup: internal cabling, disc brakes, electronic shifters, carbon bars, carbon wheels, carbon spokes etc they are always complaining about some issue. I like to ride not fettle.
Have your rim brakes, fine. Have you ever tried to descend several miles of 4-6% downhill in the pouring rain? If you say you do not ride in the rain, then I must assume you do not ride much because you will encounter a unplanned downpour sooner or later. Disk brakes are a safety feature.
Hmm, shall I go with something technically superior, safer and future-proof, or something obsolete and harder to find parts for? 🤔
There is the Pinarello F12 rim brake aswell.
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I don’t want rim brakes never again
Welcome Alex, come back soon.
I've noticed a lot of the comments are not performance oriented cyclists and just want to yell about how their 80s touring rig is still current. Arguing center pull vs side pull, etc. That argument died in the 80s I am certain of it. Others are talking about using a gas station to fill their Schrader valve tubes.
That is not what this discussion is about. This is about road race bikes, or bikes that could be purposed for that if the owner was so inclined. Generally the lightest, most aero, etc. Most if not all carbon. All Presta, no Schrader. Tubes at all not likely.
I personally am glad you guys are here and have a voice, but your rim brakes are not going anywhere.
I applaud Colnago for offering its customers the choice.
Kudos to Colnago.
Hopefully they also backward engineered beneficial flex back into the fork now that they don't have to be as stiff as concrete poles to resist the horrible flex induced by a brake mounted at the weakest part of the fork off-center of the wheel.
Rim brake bikes will come back with the price point of disc brake bikes of today.
Wow the bike industry is so innovative 😅
I totally disagree with gcn here, the big gruppo manu.s – they'll never stop doing rim brake stuff, now that Colnago have done rim-bike, I also feel other/s will follow too, been a while since I've seen s.1 with discs..
Caption competition.
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The greatest hurdle to overcome is the performance of disc brakes compared to rim. Your recreational consumer will pick disc every time from a safety position. Aside from trivial complaints there are really no downsides to disc brakes. The masses WANT disc brakes. It’s honestly just the purists that wish to keep rim. Novelty / custom built bikes can continue to make them, but I see no reason for mass production bike companies to bring the rim brake back.
I live in the midwest usa and road riding here puts very little demand on the brakes – some rides I may actually leave my house and ride back country roads and not touch the brakes for hours. Even when I used to race a lot of crits I never felt like I needed more braking or more modulation. My MTBs all have disc and that makes a world of difference in a totally different type of riding.
Have a look at these and please do a review of these rim brakes: https://youtu.be/3P4IIWsaS5I?si=d2RP3BDnXzsesBZP
All I can say is I’m going through disc pads like the clappers so I would switch back.
Hello. Rim brakes never went away. An aero bike designed properly for rim brakes will always be lighter and more aero than a disc brake bike. Additionally, mechanical shifting is still preferred by many riders because of the reliability and not having to deal with charging batteries. Yes, cable routing is a hassle. So what. And tubeless can just quietly go away for road bikes. Hookless will go away once the lawsuits start adding up.
8:28 100%,things that we can actually service like cone/cup hubs?
Solid video! I cannot imagine better braking than my current DA 9000 rim brakes. Never have I felt the need to improve my braking. I also have this feeling those I see on disc brake bikes must be new to cycling and I keep my distance.
Colnago luxury rim brake is a joke. Heavy, expensive, and designed so that it won't work with most frames. Obvious the profit margin must be so great that they don't need to sell more than a handful.
And.as for the other new tech you mentioned show – electronic shifting, internal cables, and disc brakes – the older tech is cheaper, to manufacture, easier for the home mechanic, and performs just fine.. I'm not interested in a bike that needs to be ridden with a team car along side me. I need a bike that I can work on when I have a problem on a country road in October when it's 50 degrees F and 20 minutes before sunset.
Here in Toronto Canada, we have our famous and now endangered Science Centre. I went there as a kid many times. There were wonderful interactive play areas to teach us physics and things like velocity, force, leverage, etc.
One device I remember clearly is the spinning disc and the spinning cylinder. You grabbed the spinning disc, a smooth metal frisbee sized mass, and it was easy to stop it. When you grabbed the spinning smooth metal spray can sized cylinder, it was harder to stop it. Because a wheel is easier to stop closer to the edge than the hub. So rim brakes make more sense. There's already a rim. Just grab it. As opposed to adding a plate of metal, adding a special mount on the frame, adding a caliper to grab the add-on disc, then talk about hydraulics and other unnecessary folds and turns on the act of stopping…
This Summer on a long bike trip, I needed to deploy the foot brake. So glad I had sensible tough traction soles on my shoes and not slick hard plastic racing soles. More modern is not more sensible, not always, and in my opinion not often.
How about doing some pieces on the un- necessary aspects of bikes these days?
Right now you're discussing specific leg- shaving razors…
I rest my case.
£12k for a bike. Bonkers!!!!!!
Caption competition – "Spain the first country to reintroduce the famous milk race."
still prefer rim brakes…less expensive to replace parts and don't make horrendous squealing noise when wet! agghh!!
4:32 Are people interested in a premium brand rim brake road bike? Ask all the people who snapped up the slower shifting manual Porsche 911 R with the top spec RS engine for an ungodly sum.