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>Can someone finally explain to me why rim brakes fags are so fucking in love with those?
Something i really like about bicycles is that you can see everything about how they operate. Bicycles with exposed segmented cable runs are honest machines which display their working on the surface and when you pull the lever you see the cable move and you see everything happen.

Whereas hydraulic disc brakes, internal routing and electronic shifting hide everything. Quality is shown and lack of it is hidden. It's the same with house construction, a shoddy house will have trim and flashing covering every join, no cuts are clean because you won't see them.

The disdain for disk is also about where it comes from. It's from mtbs. So road cycling as a pure activity gatekeeps itself with technology. In general, the shift to wider tire clearance, wider gearing, and better braking, is good.

Also a lot of the hate for disc comes from people who have actually worked on cheap disc bikes and old disc bikes. This idea that discs are problemless is absurd and just shows you haven't really worked on many bikes. Even fancy and new bikes can have problems but holy shit the bullshit on old/crap ones is next level. Rim brakes can have problems but they are simpler.

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