Maybe now you will be able to get at that sink full of pots !

 

Oi! 14 stone!

I currently have a 160mm rotor up front plus my bike weighs a bit so putting the anchors on a technical downhill run makes them get rather hot. An adaptor and a 180mm rotor should sort that out though.

Aye it will be fine dude, don't worry about it. Trek makes great bikes, my mate recently got a Liquid 10 All mountain bike, is an awesome all rounder.

 

found a good review here
Trek 4300 Disc Reviews - Product Reviews - BIKEmagic

Trek 4300 Disc Review - DirtWorld.com

so not all bad

 

someone actually made a very good point on one of those reviews, if you went for V-brakes and wanted to upgrade to Discs in the future you would have had to replace the wheels. Although you have mechanical discs if you wish to upgrade to hydraulics you won't need to replace the wheels / hubs. So yeah I guess it's a good deal

 

sorry mate, was only teasing

 

i read that and thought the same

 

Forgiven

Some hubs do come disk ready though, just to confuse things. If you did go for rim brakes would be worth checking that the lugs are on the frame & fork so you can upgrade.

Mechanical will be fine but the cables will stretch and the pads will wear which will mean you will have to adjust them fairly regularly. Hydraulics are self adjusting and you get better feel (or modulation) which means that you can brake closer to locking without actually locking up (if you know what I mean). You can also brake with either one or two fingers which leaves the others to hang onto the bars which is handy if your screaming down the valleys of Wales, but not really that necesarry along the side of a canal.

10 years ago we were all on solid frames & forks & rim brakes and all survived, but its a bit like cars. You dont really need 220bhp+ and 4 wheel drive to go shopping at tescos, but when your out on the track, it does give you the capacity to **** up at a much greater speed than you previously thought possible.

If you ever do want to upgrade, you can do it fairly cheaply buying from the clasifieds on the Singletrack site.

Whichever way you go, it's going to be better than the old one which presumably did the job ok?

Cheers
Andy

 

I have to say that with the type of riding i'll be doing... to the chippy and back, up and down a few kerbs.. i think the disc braes will be fine and the 80mm folks the same thats some hard riding in my eyes

 

LOL Andy, I like the imagery.

 

whats mud plugging?

 

Something roadkings never do lest their work of art be marked by dirt !