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Manufacturers return to rim brakes

What do we reckon the chances are that manufacturers like Shimano will start making rim brake groupsets across the range again? I'm not sure who started it, the frame or groupset manufacturers, but the move to disc brakes by default is bad. There's no reason why they can't start to move back again when they see people still wanting the simplicity and reliability of rim brakes. Same for narrow tyres. I ride with 23 mm tyres all year round because they're simply faster. Shame to see the death of the proper road bike as every bike slowly turns into a gravel bike. We even saw this when gravel bike races started being won on 'road' bikes... Give the consumer more choice! Now that this has been featured on Twitter I would like to add that disc brakes are a psy op.

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