Timeline for A bike for city commute - disc brakes, bar-end shifters, tires
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| Feb 4, 2021 at 23:03 | comment | added | CCTO | They are Shimano IM55's front and rear, which as I understand it, use rollers to activate the drum braking surfaces, so for questions of maintenance and weather resistance I think are like other drums. I don't know if they have the "power modulator" but I never had trouble engaging them as forcefully as I ever wanted to. And I have never needed to modulate speed on long downhills, so the lack of a heatsink never became an issue. | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 21:45 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | Are they drums or roller brakes? | |
| Feb 4, 2021 at 19:08 | history | answered | CCTO | CC BY-SA 4.0 |