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And all the pros win TDF, Vuelta, Giro and what not on disk break bikes, how is that possible – and, they win in times never seen before. For sure they must dope up to the eyebrows to make up for the disk break disadvantage. You are just picking little niches where you think your beloved rim breaks from the past are maybe faster.
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What does the word “clapped” mean?
Thank you man 🫡
For me the only drawback of rim brakes are they eventually wear out the wheel rims. But disc brake rim walls tend to be lighter and less robust, so they eventually fail under general stress and impacts anyway.
Maybe you don't need any brakes for a hill climb race 😆
any way to get a pink kask protone?
In an old slovenian documentary tadej breaks it down: if you want better braking in the wet, go disc, but if you are seeking that performance gains and are looking for time to gain on climbs, go rim for performance. Looking forward to tadej riding the new rb c68 on summit finishes next year
Durian I was the there sunday and mostly rim brake bikes Harry Hudson best junior and a overall champion soon.Hatty Mac just doesn't give a fck animal rider. Illi Gardner trains in the hills next to where I live in Cardiff south Wales she's incredible rider takes all the Qoms.
Don't forget about the camera that Harry Mac had on the front of his bike and still won!
I was there on Sunday and all the main hitters seemed to have a rim brake bike. Great to see. Lots of AliExpress parts in there too…
"Fuck the UCI" and "Feed me beer", that's my kind of guy 🤣
Ya but how many cyclists are hill climb specialists?? Less than 1%.
It’s a 2008 Cervelo RS mate, there’s a run down of the bike on a thread I saw yesterday.
Wouldn't they run with no brakes if they were allowed to do it? They run with rim brakes because they're lighter, right? On a hill climb you're not actually using them.
Riding Rim brakes at the other end of the field as well. Bike weighs 5.6kgs and would go well under a good Climber.
Mac is a decade younger than feather , feathers on the way out, nothing to do with the bike purely down to age of Mac and ability
Rim.brakes rule .they use fixed wheel sometimes which have one front brake rim
And good work, Harley, for telling us about this, great to see a rider playing for the love of the game on a bike from the used marketplace. When better you know faster you go. 😀
Bet feather could hear those discs go sching sching all the way up the hill that little bit of drag of the discs hitting the pad probably made the difference.
Love my older bikes, they're still light by today's standards….. stay well Harley.
Natasha is hot 10/10, but her IQ seems 0/10, you got yourself a doll.
Yes yes and oooooh yes, here by me they mix aswell and RBC came out first in sa
SALUTE
I bet there is some steep hills round your pad .
Worth arranging a hill climb competition
You've got the following
Cycling weekly was essential reading upto the 90's
Cycling weakly now is the 'comic'
The ultimate in more "go" than "show."
I can't quantify the advantage of rim brake on Zwift
What's the weight difference, there's 2 seconds in it, is that the rim brake advantage
The bloke who came second was on a euro 21,000..wtf.
The use case for disc brakes is foul weather riding when you're not going fast in any case and you don't want to expose your rim bike to rapid wear from the elements, although truth be told I'll probably just swap out the carbon pads on my cyclocross bike with cantilevered rim brakes for alloy pads and throw on in the alloy cross wheels to deal with riding in winter muck.
i had to look up "clapped out"
This is perhaps the best demonstration of the superiority of rim brakes in elite racing I've ever seen. Feather's race weight is normally around 63 kg, so he averaged about 9.6 w/kg (607 watts), whereas Macfarlane averaged 8.8 w/kg (69 kg and 610 watts). Time for Feather to dust off his Hi-Mod. Congrats to Macfarlane for keeping it real and not selling out.
Ran the numbers and Andrew could have saved ~1.3 seconds from weight by switching over to his rim brake super six. to win Andrew would need a ~4.4kg bike which would be easy and (relatively) cheap to accomplish with rim brakes.