Disc Brakes Archives

So You Haven’t Bought a Bike in 10 Years – Disc Brakes & Thru-Axles

October 29, 2025 at 1:45 pm2 min reading

If your bike is from around 2015, chances are it still stops the old-fashioned way, with rim brakes, and your wheels are secured with quick-release skewers. For a long time, that setup was the gold standard. It’s light, simple, and easy to service. Back then,…

The Best Cycling Industry Innovations of the Past Three Decades

December 1, 2020 at 3:11 pm7 min reading

Outdoor/Mountain

You may well argue that the article is missing some points here and there but these twelve technical innovations strike me as the greatest, at least throughout my entirely amateur cycling career.

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World Championships` Silver Medallist Blames Disc Brakes for a Cut to the Bone

February 13, 2018 at 12:18 pm

Outdoor/Mountain

While disc brakes have been a subject of considerable debate in road peloton, they have been largely used in cyclocross without much controversy since 2010. That might, however, change with Katie Compton`s latest accident which ended her season on a rather bitter note.