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Dec 2015
8:20am, 6 Dec 2015
78,612 posts
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GregP
If I was going to ride on gravel I'd use a mountain bike or a 'cross bike. I wouldn't immediately think I needed a new bike. Sorry.
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Dec 2015
9:06am, 6 Dec 2015
18,548 posts
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Stepford Wife
Exactly. And this is one of the many things what winds me up about the whole thing. Buy a bike, or more than one if you choose, and go and ride it. Some things it will be better at than others but as long as you are enjoying yourself I really don't give a shit what you call it.
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Dec 2015
10:22am, 6 Dec 2015
4,350 posts
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Dai Bank
I,ve ridden my old Kona CX bike more this year than any other bike I own. My son,s Boardman CX has cable discs and riding that occasionally has been good and naturally far better braking than the CX50/70 catis on my Kona. Not sure about discs on a road bike but for trail/gravel forest road riding I am a convert, as much a change as v-brakes to discs was on mtbs all those years ago. Know that I would not tackle difficult singletrack on either CX bike as I would on my mtbs, that would be asking too much of my limited skills.
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Dec 2015
10:50am, 6 Dec 2015
16,138 posts
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GlennR
Out of purely technical curiosity, isn't there a risk that discs will lock up rather than stop the bike? Even on my basic road bike I'm more worried about locking up the front end than I am about stopping in time.
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Dec 2015
12:18pm, 6 Dec 2015
78,614 posts
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GregP
I'm wary of disk brakes mainly because I've had nothing but trouble with the ones on my MTB (we all know the story - it involves Avid Juicy 3s) - but alas my real problem is aesthetic. They are, alas, UAF.
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Dec 2015
2:23pm, 6 Dec 2015
18,549 posts
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Stepford Wife
Can't wait to get discs on all of my bikes. And tubeless. All arguments about the risk of locking up etc we went though in the 90s with mountain bikes. All of the disc brakes for road bikes are currently pretty high end and have lovely modulation and feel, so not locking up is pretty straightforward.
Greppers. AVOID Avids. Juicy 3s were shite when they came out. Now they are all old and perished they are even worse. Currently Shimano are the best value, best performing disc brakes out there. Teatro are sadly under-rated.
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Dec 2015
7:34pm, 6 Dec 2015
57,521 posts
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Gobi
Used my CX bike in the Alps Steppy
Over heated the breaks big style - I did not feel the joy of discs
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Dec 2015
8:21pm, 6 Dec 2015
10,324 posts
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AngusClydesdale
I was an early adopter of hydraulic discs on MTB, mostly on account of being a fat Bastardos, so have thoroughly reliable Magura early stock. Never ever locked up unintentionally.
Tubeless are my latest revelation. Something about the decade of small children moved me from "early adopter" to "way behind the drag curve" (not just pedal bikes either!).
The great joy is seeing the light at the end of the tunnel. On the back of a great trip to the wilds of Glen Feshie, littlest is getting a cool MTB for her Christmas having survived the ritual initiation of steer this filthy heavy Hellfrauds shitehawk through the bondu without dying fatally to death. She is her mother's daughter. 
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Dec 2015
8:57am, 7 Dec 2015
18,550 posts
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Stepford Wife
Braking far too much then, Gobi But, slightly more seriously, if you are generating that much heat through braking I would far rather that be at a rotor and in fluid than at a rim edge near a tyre. That's the other thing I really don't understand - tubs. Let's move on from the 1950s.
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Dec 2015
3:27pm, 7 Dec 2015
57,524 posts
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Gobi
I have a 14 min descent of alpe d'huez steppy.
Safe to say I am confident in my ability to break smart and yet down the Alpe on discs was a very disconcerting experience.
I want to say discs are great and on my cx or mtb they rock but from 50mph heavy down the Alpe they do not inspire confidence
I love my tubs (tubeless rules on the mtb)
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