Rim brakes in mountainous regions

Rapha Nadal wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Rapha Nadal wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

cyclisto wrote:

Once during touring, I descended a 1000m of steep downhill under heavy rain with rim brakes. When I reached the flats my brifters were stopping at my drop bars as there was excessive brake pad wear. I would definitely feel safer with disks but should you stick to rim brakes, don’t forget to take enough replacement brake pads!

In August I serviced/supported my friends who did the RAID Alpine, this involved climbing over 58,000ft in 6 days and even more descending, a lot of it high speed with loads of chicanes, off the col de L’iseran it was snowing on the way up and over the top, sleeted then rain for the rest of the way. 3000ft down, they all had rim brakes and only one of them fubar’d their brakes (on another day) but wasn’t due to burning all the way through them.

Let’s file this under the “never happened” stories section.

You’re so full of shit, so you’re saying I’m lying and that my friends are lying and either didn’t do the raid alpine or you’re saying they went through loads of brake pads and I didn’t notice once whilst packing their bikes, wheeling them into various conference rooms, out-houses and whilst helping to make sure they were up to spec each day. I’d even suggested in our pre-tour discussions to bring spare pads in case they were needed.

But yeah, you must have being there too so that you can assure us of your fantasy that it “never happened”

The pic below on the 12th August also never happened.

Do one twat!

In all fairness, you’re so obsessed with your own blinkered & narrow minded view of the world that it’s highly likely that you missed the worn out brake blocks. You fucking fifth rate troll.

Hahaha, it was YOU who called me out as a liar you fucking slimey pile of shit, and then I slammed the door shut on you.

But c’mon big man, if you want to get it on sowe can discuss the niceites of you calling me a liar, i’ll fucking crush you like a grape loud mothed twat!

I’m on the CUK forum, you can message me there and let’s get this sorted, any time, any place. But you won’t because you’re loud mothed cowardly cunt troll who accuses people of lying without a scrap of evidence then gets all keyboard warrior when outed as talking shite.

I’ll be waiting for you twat!

Rapha Nadal wrote:

Rapha Nadal wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

Rapha Nadal wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

cyclisto wrote:

Once during touring, I descended a 1000m of steep downhill under heavy rain with rim brakes. When I reached the flats my brifters were stopping at my drop bars as there was excessive brake pad wear. I would definitely feel safer with disks but should you stick to rim brakes, don’t forget to take enough replacement brake pads!

In August I serviced/supported my friends who did the RAID Alpine, this involved climbing over 58,000ft in 6 days and even more descending, a lot of it high speed with loads of chicanes, off the col de L’iseran it was snowing on the way up and over the top, sleeted then rain for the rest of the way. 3000ft down, they all had rim brakes and only one of them fubar’d their brakes (on another day) but wasn’t due to burning all the way through them.

Let’s file this under the “never happened” stories section.

You’re so full of shit, so you’re saying I’m lying and that my friends are lying and either didn’t do the raid alpine or you’re saying they went through loads of brake pads and I didn’t notice once whilst packing their bikes, wheeling them into various conference rooms, out-houses and whilst helping to make sure they were up to spec each day. I’d even suggested in our pre-tour discussions to bring spare pads in case they were needed.

But yeah, you must have being there too so that you can assure us of your fantasy that it “never happened”

The pic below on the 12th August also never happened.

Do one twat!

In all fairness, you’re so obsessed with your own blinkered & narrow minded view of the world that it’s highly likely that you missed the worn out brake blocks. You fucking fifth rate troll.

Someone’s not been out for a ride….

To me it sound perfectly feasible that people have got through the Alps without needing to change their blocks. I’ve spent long weekends over there and never used up all my blocks or even had to replace them shortly after. You do know different types of block wear differently ? And laden down bikes would be harsher than ligheer road bikes ? And braking techniques help too.

Sultan_Penang wrote:

Sultan_Penang wrote:

Miller wrote:

Do you have a good handle on the quality of roads you’ll be riding on? I wonder if a full-on race bike is the best choice of machine. I may be displaying my ignorance here but I wouldn’t be expecting continuous asphalt in those regions. I’d be looking at a gravel bike, myself.

I wouldn’t worry about disk brake maintenance, once set up they’re very reliable. 

 

 

The places where I want to go are connected with asphalt. My experience with Indonesia is that roads can be often new and smooth, but also old and bumpy with potholes. I will put on 28mm tires. A gravel bike might be a better option, but I like fast, multi-day, minimalist road bike trips. Also, I am not sure if I want to buy a second bike, and I don’t want to sell my TCR. 

So why are you asking about disc brakes ?

Rapha Nadal wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

cyclisto wrote:

Once during touring, I descended a 1000m of steep downhill under heavy rain with rim brakes. When I reached the flats my brifters were stopping at my drop bars as there was excessive brake pad wear. I would definitely feel safer with disks but should you stick to rim brakes, don’t forget to take enough replacement brake pads!

In August I serviced/supported my friends who did the RAID Alpine, this involved climbing over 58,000ft in 6 days and even more descending, a lot of it high speed with loads of chicanes, off the col de L’iseran it was snowing on the way up and over the top, sleeted then rain for the rest of the way. 3000ft down, they all had rim brakes and only one of them fubar’d their brakes (on another day) but wasn’t due to burning all the way through them.

Let’s file this under the “never happened” stories section.

You’re so full of shit, so you’re saying I’m lying and that my friends are lying and either didn’t do the raid alpine or you’re saying they went through loads of brake pads and I didn’t notice once whilst packing their bikes, wheeling them into various conference rooms, out-houses and whilst helping to make sure they were up to spec each day. I’d even suggested in our pre-tour discussions to bring spare pads in case they were needed.

But yeah, you must have being there too so that you can assure us of your fantasy that it “never happened”

The pic below on the 12th August also never happened.

Do one twat!

28 mm tires should be fine

28 mm tires should be fine for a bit of gravel. You will want to change your cornering technique a little on that surface – better to take the turn as upright as you can, and lean the bike over as little as possible.

Take care and enjoy your trip.

Be sure to take plenty of

Be sure to take plenty of puncture repair stuff and you’ll be fine and have a great time. Maybe pop a note back here afterwards to tell everyone how you got on.

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

BehindTheBikesheds wrote:

cyclisto wrote:

Once during touring, I descended a 1000m of steep downhill under heavy rain with rim brakes. When I reached the flats my brifters were stopping at my drop bars as there was excessive brake pad wear. I would definitely feel safer with disks but should you stick to rim brakes, don’t forget to take enough replacement brake pads!

In August I serviced/supported my friends who did the RAID Alpine, this involved climbing over 58,000ft in 6 days and even more descending, a lot of it high speed with loads of chicanes, off the col de L’iseran it was snowing on the way up and over the top, sleeted then rain for the rest of the way. 3000ft down, they all had rim brakes and only one of them fubar’d their brakes (on another day) but wasn’t due to burning all the way through them.

Let’s file this under the “never happened” stories section.

cyclisto wrote:

cyclisto wrote:

Once during touring, I descended a 1000m of steep downhill under heavy rain with rim brakes. When I reached the flats my brifters were stopping at my drop bars as there was excessive brake pad wear. I would definitely feel safer with disks but should you stick to rim brakes, don’t forget to take enough replacement brake pads!

In August I serviced/supported my friends who did the RAID Alpine, this involved climbing over 58,000ft in 6 days and even more descending, a lot of it high speed with loads of chicanes, off the col de L’iseran it was snowing on the way up and over the top, sleeted then rain for the rest of the way. 3000ft down, they all had rim brakes and only one of them fubar’d their brakes (on another day) but wasn’t due to burning all the way through them.