>>1718691>"good brakes aren't jewellery"Adequate brakes aren't, excessive brakes are.
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>>1718685 does well with cable operated drum brakes, even though it's expected to stop a 80000w engine and a 220lb bike, from a 50 mph down a hill with a passenger etc.
But it's the norm to have sintered hydraulic disc brakes on pushbikes where a rider might wheeze out 300w. Or 1000w with electric assistance. Are hydraulic discs better brakes? Well... they feel better, and are a higher spec, but overkill isn't better. Blowing out the cost, adding points of leakage and failure, and increasing the maintenance complexity of a system is not 'better' - it's making a basic bicycle into a white elephant of a thing. High performance out of context, not socially useful.
Is a ferrari better than a toyota yaris? Sure, on a racetrack. But all of its super engine, soft tires, carbon brakes would be an expensive and useless burden for 99% of people on earth. Which is why children aspire to own them, and have posters of ferraris, but adults tend to avoid fragile & extreme headache machines.
