At this point, saying ‘save the rim brake’ is in itself a tired cliché, conjuring images either of puritanical road cyclists bouncing about on their skinny 23mm tyres or die-hard single-speeders bouncing about on their skinny 23mm tyres. Stickers adorn tatty commuter bikes or city lampposts, and many of us shake our heads and sigh.
‘Are they so unenlightened?’ we ask ourselves, as the contaminated pads of our hydraulic callipers squeeze onto misaligned disc rotors, bringing us noisily (but quickly) to a halt. ‘Are they still