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PostPosted: Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:30 pm 
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Anyone have disc brakes on their road bike yet?
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There is a Salsa road bike at the Salk institute with disk brakes. I am very jealous of the guy who has it.

http://salsacycles.com/bikes/vaya/


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abzillah wrote:
There is a Salsa road bike at the Salk institute with disk brakes. I am very jealous of the guy who has it.

http://salsacycles.com/bikes/vaya/


That's a cyclocross bike yo. Disc brakes are making their way into cyclocross and I'd guess that eventually we will see them on full race road bikes since the weight factor with mechanicals should be fairly close if not lighter than the high end road sets now. It only makes sense when you consider the exponentially better stopping power of discs over rim brakes.

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