my main worries are the rim breaks—not sure if o should pull the trigger on this one for my first serious road bike
by dawsonabd
my main worries are the rim breaks—not sure if o should pull the trigger on this one for my first serious road bike
by dawsonabd
6 Comments
It’s trash get an mtb
Older lol. That’s great bike, but it’s very aggressive fit, plus group pictured is pretty low end. You can’t even for 28c in the rear on wide rim.
Unless you live in mountains or heavy or ride in wet weather rim brakes are not a problem.
Na, I’d honestly pass on it. Rim breaks with the 105 drive train is a good set up, I have it on my Trek from a similar era, but I only paid 350 for it. While rim breaks are fine they do drive down the price ALOT for modern road bikes so personally id shoot for maybe 400 tops. Specialized makes an amazing bike so see if you can land it but don’t massively over pay for it. Have fun riding homie 🤙
Rim brakes are fine unless you are in an area with a European amounts of height variance.
Could make the argument that either are better. You can easily throw your self over the bars with both but the rim brakes require a lot more force to do so. Or it’s easier to apply more exact pressure with disks. Depends how you look at it.
Rim brakes put less heat into your rim. For the average person it’s non issue. Especially starting out. Also if you crash and wreck a wheel, a rim brake wheelset will be a whole lot cheaper than a disk brake wheelset.
I can’t say how good a deal that is. For rim brake 105 you could probably do better than 1k.
I would pay 800 or less
People like the frame. Kinda cultish. to me it always seemed like it would beat you up with that giant downtube