Tiger_Mike
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Lots of interesting points made. What I've gleaned from this is there isn't a super compelling performance reason to choose one over the other. Wet performance isn't all that important to me....I don't plan on riding in downpours, and when I did get caught in one I found that rain striking my face at anything above 10 mph was really unpleasant, and the wet braking performance with my rim brakes was adequate. The reason I posed the question originally is that I'm undecided if the P38 is going to replace my commuter bike or my "go fast" bike. Micah at Easy Street suggested it could do both roles if I was willing to swap out wheels. Disc brakes would definitely simplify changing between the wide rim, heavy duty fat tire commuter wheel set and the skinny speed set. That convenience comes at a pretty high cost though...going to discs means I can't use any of my existing wheels, and the disc brakes are more expensive, especially if I go with the high end ones Vicki likes. It becomes a bit of a triple whammy if I start out with a frame set and build exactly what I want. Next to buying a used one, an "off the rack" bike is certainly the next affordable. I dunno what I'm going to do yet, but it sure is nice to have first world problems like this!
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