[wpm]

I have one bike with rim brakes, my Brompton, which is slow, and small.

I would never buy or build a full size full time bike that doesn’t have at least mechanical discs. It is a no brainer. Full stop. (Heh, get it???)

The four pots on my cargo bike can stop me, another adult, and itself (200kg or so) in what feels like 5 feet from 20mph. They are powerful enough that when I first got it I had to stop myself from pulling the levers so hard, cause I’d skid with barely any effort. Such a bike would be impossible with rims.

There’s being romantic about old bikes and old, simpler tech, but this is just dumb.