If you like the new bike and it makes you want to ride more, that should be a win!
A lot of folks here telling you to keep your old bike and upgrade to V-brakes, and that's fine. Bear in mind that discs have a weight penalty since the frame needs to be built up for thru axles and reinforced for the disc mounts, they'll also be a bit tougher to set up (compared to v-brakes at least). Vs will be light and an easy setup, but you get rim wear (esp on gravel) and braking performance impacted by wheels getting out of true.
I think it comes down to what kind of wear-items you want to deal with, and whether a new bike will inspire you to ride more. You mention you've had your bike for a while, so it's not like you're impulsively buying.
By all accounts Shimano R7020 (105-level hydro) shift and brake very well and for a price point below Rival if you want to consider that. Niner (lots of braze-ons), Orbea, and Giant (very sleek) all have nice aluminum options too.
Quote:
Originally Posted by benb
There were tons of bikes with Cantis years ago. On the internet Cantis are still the best brakes, in the real world they are incredibly fiddly and the market decided they needed to die. Almost everyone in the real world has bad memories of Canti brakes in the 80s and 90s that didn't stop worth a damn and could never seem to be adjusted right.
I am a good mechanic IMO but the Cantis that came on my All City were indeed the most fiddly brakes I've ever owned. Even worse than the ones I had in the late 80s and 90s. The CX9s I have are also fiddly but it's easy to learn the recipe for how to keep them working well. It's just that just like Cantis you have to constantly adjust them as the pads wear to keep them working, constantly changing the main cable tension and then adjusting the spring tension to keep the brake centered. Nothing like a modern road rim brake where you just have to tighten a barrel adjuster as the pad wears and it works flawlessly the whole time.
|