Steel Touring Bike With Disc Brakes

Disc brakes really shine in adverse weather conditions as they re unaffected by water and dirt.

Steel touring bike with disc brakes.

This steel touring bike has generous tyre clearance 700x50c cable disc brakes and braze ons everywhere. I m speaking from practical experience here and not hypothetically by the way. And as usual there s no clear cut answer. This is a bike intended to take you anywhere it s feasible to ride a laden bike with fat knobby 2 0in 29er mountain bike tyres a low ratio double chainset hydraulic disc brakes and sram mountain bike derailleurs with sram s s700 brake shift levers.

It offers a rather high climbing gear of 25 gear inches but with a crankset change you can easily achieve lower climbing gears. There s plenty of debate over whether v brakes or disc brakes are better for touring. Find the marin four corners for us 1039. V brakes can slow a loaded touring bike in dry conditions very well as can hydraulic rim brakes.

With its chunky aluminium frame hydraulic disc brakes and thru axles the mountain bike inspired trek 920 frameset really stands out in the touring bike category. It has an old school mountain bike aesthetic right down to the wtb mountain drop bars but a geometry built for touring mechanical disc brakes and enough tire clearance to accommodate 29x2 0. Our robust line of steel touring bikes has a range of escape vehicles in both the on road and off road flavors. The disc trucker is a pure bred drop bar touring bike.

The marin four corners has been getting better and cheaper by the year. So the reason i don t like disc brakes for bike touring is that when you get off the beaten track maintenance and spares become a major issue. Cantilever brakes don t quite stack up to the other rim brake options with regards to performance. However the stanforth skyelander is a steel frame touring bike designed for mainly road use.

V brakes for our purposes are a generic and misused term for the several varieties of caliper brakes that work by pinching the bicycle wheel s rim between two brake blocks to create friction and slow the bike. Trek 520 disc touring bike 1 300 1 679 constructed from trek s chromoly steel the frame has been designed around disc brakes and fitted with a rack and fenders mounts.