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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 60960" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p>Disk brakes have many attributes to recommend them (lower force on brake lever, progressive feel, fade resistance, etc.), and I certainly understand why someone might want to convert front drums for circumstances like you describe. However, the "need" to convert the rear drum is less obvious to me.</p><p></p><p>Not that anyone wants to lock up a wheel, but a properly set up rear drum easily should be capable of that. Given this, the attributes of a disk in that location become much less obvious. Yes, a rear disk would be "better" in some sense (as would an electric starter, heated hand grips, electronic traction control, ...), but given the amount of work required to make this conversion it's not clear to me that the additional "betterness" would be merited. One could even argue that with all the rider's attention on making sure not to lock up the front wheel with its disk in a split-second emergency situation, being able to tromp on the back brake hard without worrying about locking it up would be a benefit in reducing overall stopping distance.</p><p></p><p>Hey, it's your bike so I'm not saying you shouldn't do this. I'm just asking the question whether the effort to do the conversion of the rear brake would result in an improvement in actual operation when the major concern is minimum stopping distance in emergency situations (rather than fade resistance).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 60960, member: 2806"] Disk brakes have many attributes to recommend them (lower force on brake lever, progressive feel, fade resistance, etc.), and I certainly understand why someone might want to convert front drums for circumstances like you describe. However, the "need" to convert the rear drum is less obvious to me. Not that anyone wants to lock up a wheel, but a properly set up rear drum easily should be capable of that. Given this, the attributes of a disk in that location become much less obvious. Yes, a rear disk would be "better" in some sense (as would an electric starter, heated hand grips, electronic traction control, ...), but given the amount of work required to make this conversion it's not clear to me that the additional "betterness" would be merited. One could even argue that with all the rider's attention on making sure not to lock up the front wheel with its disk in a split-second emergency situation, being able to tromp on the back brake hard without worrying about locking it up would be a benefit in reducing overall stopping distance. Hey, it's your bike so I'm not saying you shouldn't do this. I'm just asking the question whether the effort to do the conversion of the rear brake would result in an improvement in actual operation when the major concern is minimum stopping distance in emergency situations (rather than fade resistance). [/QUOTE]
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