[charliedid]

Originally Posted by prototoast

I think this gets to the real challenge that a lot of rim-brake aficionados present to the cycling companies--they want the same products they're already using, and they want them to be cheap, and they wanted them to be marketed as top of the line. Rim brake frames and groupsets are still available and will continue to be available, and compare favorably to what was available in the past. But they're no longer being marketed as top-tier, and some of the rim-brake die-hards seem to lament the loss of status more than anything else.

You said it.