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Originally Posted by combustiblefuel
Disc brakes are the standard for off road rides. You can get away with mechanical discs for light trail riding. Hydro's are for medium/ hardcore trails. If your riding roads to commute mechanical discs/u brakes/ v brakes are just fine. After all when's the last time you saw a top of the line road bikes with discs?
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Ahem....
http://colnago.com/c59-disc-3/?lang=en
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Originally Posted by hulkrogan
Maybe not top of the line race bikes yet, but some pretty high end stuff:
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Oh there are definitely top of the line race bikes with them (not totally legal yet, mind you).
Colnago frame, full electronic Campy gruppo, and fancy wheels, and more carbon than a coal mine, and you get top of the line pretty quickly.
I've seen a couple builds in the shop I train out of that were >$16k.
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