>>986854>>986729In general I've been pretty thrilled that "touring" values have become a meme. It means useful stuff like carrying capacity, durability, comfort, practicality, and sustainable speed (drop bars, gears, but not full aero autism) have become traits that cyclists seek out
With that said, some people take it too far with these unrealistic scenarios like "what if I'm 1100 miles west of Ulaanbataar and both of my hydros take on water, better gimp myself for no reason so that a yak herdsman can repair my bike with a rock and some tools made of yak horn"
I say this as someone who uses mech discs. I only got them because at the time there were no reasonably priced brifter disc systems. I mean you go out probably with what, 2 or 3 CO2 cartridges at best? You carrying a spare chain? A bunch of spare spokes? No? Then fuck off with your bizarro scenarios where a very specific and unlikely type of crash causes a very specific unlikely type of brake failure and somehow having one functioning brake will completely prevent you from getting home.
