New Road Bikes With Disc Brakes

What began with a trickle about five years ago is now a full on flood.

New road bikes with disc brakes. Updated june 30 2020. A handful of new aero road bikes like the cannondale systemsix and 2019 specialized venge are disc brake only. And that s a minefield. Disc brakes weigh more when road cyclists are often doing everything they can to make their bike as light as possible for speed reasons the addition of discs brakes will add weight to a bike.

Cons of disc brakes. Rotors come as small as 140 millimeters in diameter for road and cyclocross applications all the way up to 205mm for downhill mountain biking. Most road bikes are available in both rim and disc varieties but unless you ve got a stable of the very best road wheels in your garage we d recommend seriously considering discs brakes. Once the reserve of the mountain bike disc brakes have been steadily rising in numbers within the road community.

The most significant new technology for road bikes is disc brakes. Since it was introduced in 2009 giant s defy has consistently been the brand s top selling bike it was also the first road bike to be offered exclusively in disc brakes. Today though road disc brakes are lighter and more compact and they re increasingly prevalent on road bikes. 4 choosing pads is a minefield.

More and more we re seeing race oriented road bikes launching as disc brake only platforms the. Welcome to the latest edition of road cc s buyer s guide to the top disc braked endurance bikes of 2019 in which you ll our pick of 16 of the best comfortable but quick all day road bikes. 8 simple step to bedding in new disc brake pads on a road or mountain bike. When giant unveiled its new range of defy carbon endurance bikes for 2016 not a.

Disc brake rotors. They ve been used on mountain bikes for years but until recently disc brakes were considered too heavy for road bikes.