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Richard Goodman
Guest
Have been having a play with a colleagues new bike - hydraulic disk brakes. Very nice, very smooth
progressive feel with no trace of cable friction, excellent stopping power even in the wet. I'm
convinced I need this. I want this. Disk brakes are a Good Thing. It makes sense for ordinary road
bikes: commuters and tourers to have them. _But_: Nobody makes them, to work with drop bars. It
seems you can get drop levers for hydraulic rim brakes - Magura do them, or use cable actuated disks
with ordinary drop levers (Avid do them) - but not hydraulic disk brakes with drop levers. No, oh
no, not possible. Why on earth not? I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants such a thing!
Rich
progressive feel with no trace of cable friction, excellent stopping power even in the wet. I'm
convinced I need this. I want this. Disk brakes are a Good Thing. It makes sense for ordinary road
bikes: commuters and tourers to have them. _But_: Nobody makes them, to work with drop bars. It
seems you can get drop levers for hydraulic rim brakes - Magura do them, or use cable actuated disks
with ordinary drop levers (Avid do them) - but not hydraulic disk brakes with drop levers. No, oh
no, not possible. Why on earth not? I'm sure I'm not the only one who wants such a thing!
Rich