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Hi yawl,

 

I am building up a bike and have never used discs in a meaningful way. I love my V's and suspect that to change to discs may not be worthwhile given cost, weight, etc.

 

I'm really struggling to identify decently priced good quality new frames that have v-brake capability (bosses). 

 

What are the pros and cons of changing to disc? And WTF with the almost zero availability of v-brakes frames in SA?
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Hi yawl' date='

 

I am building up a bike and have never used discs in a meaningful way. I love my V's and suspect that to change to discs may not be worthwhile given cost, weight, etc.

 

I'm really struggling to identify decently priced good quality new frames that have v-brake capability (bosses). 

 

What are the pros and cons of changing to disc? And WTF with the almost zero availability of v-brakes frames in SA?
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Specialized HT frames has bosses for V-brakes.
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Discs may be better in most situations.

But lose a pad on a ride and ask the same question.

 

Stop buying crap and it will not lose. I will let anybody test my bottom of the range Juicy 3s and they will think it is top of the range stuff.

 

Any brake set, disc or none, will be better then anything else if set up correctly. I think a badly setup disc system is worst then a badly setup rim system.

 

The thing that makes discs great is that the braking surface is moved away from the rim which is the part that goes through the water and mud.

 
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A friend have one come off the plate. The rest of the ride was a sound fest and he had to replace the disc because it was trashed.

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V's great until it gets wet.

 

Low Racer' date=' Check out CRC and then go to DT Swiss, they have lovely rigid carbon forks. 
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You do get the PRO rigid carbons locally aswell.
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I dont often post, but I have a little bad experience with the disks. See I weight nearly 90 Kg and it just seems that these thing have a hard time stopping me. Angry

I had absolutely super stoppers with the "V" brakes. Clap

It is sadly one of those un-reversable upgrades I made. Now I am just living with it and hating it at the same time.Unhappy
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....and they are heavier

 

Not anymore

 

 

 

 

 

Discs may be better in most situations.

But lose a pad on a ride and ask the same question.

 

Lost a V-brake pad years ago....on both Vs and discs it's highly unlikely to happen' date=' but sh*t goes wrong from time to time whichever you choose.

 

Based on the fact you complain about the noise on that ride, I would venture to guess that your buddy was using his brakes as usual after losing a pad...? He should've attempted to stay of the that brake and the disc would in all likelyhood have been fine. On two seperate occasions I rode a total of +-20km on the metal pads on my discs....both were fine afterwards.

 

Just my experience

 

 

 

I dont often post, but I have a little bad experience with

the disks. See I weight nearly 90 Kg and it just seems that these thing

have a hard time stopping me. Angry

I had absolutely super stoppers with the "V" brakes. Clap

It is sadly one of those un-reversable upgrades I made. Now I am just living with it and hating it at the same time.Unhappy

 

What brakes? What bike? 90kg is not heavy....they should be able to handle that no problem I would think?

 

 

 

 

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Stopping power is better with discs

But that aside, the fact that you can break a spoke, bend a wheel and keep breaks is great on a MTB.

Also if thee is lotsa mud, then there is less for the mud to clog if there are no brakes on the rim

After doing Sani 3 years ago in the mud, no-one would want rim breaks again
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I have mixed feeling about disks, used to absolutely love them, but...after riding a v-brake bike for sometime, I am not so sure about disk brakes anymore. Yes in mud they work WAAAAAY better, but how often do you ride in serious mud? for the racer, v-brakes are lighter, waaay cheaper so the savings can be used somewhere else on the bike, and the v-brakes stop me just as quickly if not quicker that the disks (juicy 5's btw used to ride on hayes same thing.)  Then offcourse if you buckle your wheel with v-brakes they have less power cause of less contact if the buckle is bad enough you might have to  open the brakes to even ride the bike, disks don't have that problem. That said XC events are so tame here that I don't see how your going to buckle a wheel unless you crash hard, and then you have other problems anyway. If I where to build up a light xc hardtail I would go for v-brakes, if I where to built a light fs bike for say the epic...mmmm disks never know when and how much mud you will get, play bike, disks for when you buckle a wheel etc.

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I dont often post' date=' but I have a little bad experience with the disks. See I weight nearly 90 Kg and it just seems that these thing have a hard time stopping me. Angry

I had absolutely super stoppers with the "V" brakes. Clap

It is sadly one of those un-reversable upgrades I made. Now I am just living with it and hating it at the same time.Unhappy
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Do you use hydraulic or cable operated disc brakes?

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