Venge Vias disc, first photos?

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noBlakes wrote:Looks like discs. That, or hydro rim brakes in the fork and chainstays

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no brake track on Rovals

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I am surprised that disc brakes are on the Vias. Given the aero penalties of then. Maybe they hide them better?

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han1337 wrote:There is no rotor.


Both pics seems.........too coincidentalt about what they leave out......

In the instagram pic.......Looking at the front hub and what I can see of the left side spokes coming from it (obviously not everything), my eye suggests that there is not a disk...so perhaps as some have suggested a hydro rim brake (internal to the fork and chainstays)......which would fit into the scheme of a VERY aero bike with no aero compromises (e.g. disk brakes).

But then seeing the receipt for delivery of a Venge (but doesn't say Venge Vias) disc bike (seemingly 2017 ?)....... :noidea:

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Maybe it's got drum brakes :lol:

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Awesome! They found a way to make it even heavier. \o/

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Beverly wrote:Maybe it's got drum brakes :lol:


Since the brakes sucked big time, they just removed the brakes... it's even faster now!


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Hydraulic rims brakes would make way more sense to me than discs. I don't see how they could possibly, with a straight face, start throwing discs on their most aero road offering. After all, didn't they coin the phrase "#AeroIsEverything"? Not if they throw discs on it it isn't. Not that they couldn't do it, but they'd sure have some 'splainin to do. Kind of like SRAM's old marketing campaign when they had the "mechanical advantage". Will be interesting to watch how Specialized recovers from the debacle known as vias and spins the resulting "new and improved".
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I can definitely see them bringing out a disc model soon since the peloton is probably going to transition entirely in the coming years. Getting ahead of the game in terms of reducing the aero impact of disc brakes would make sense.

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I'm still not of the mind that discs are going to stick, at least not in the ranks of the pro peleton. #DiscsArentEverything
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their argument will be that the small aero penalty is offset by increased descending ability.

win(d) tunnel saying disc brakes have only ~25% of the drag of shoe covers.
Very few here seem to be losing there shit over people not using aero shoe covers (which have no performance benefit)

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jeffy wrote:their argument will be that the small aero penalty is offset by increased descending ability.
Ha, yes, but "offsets" don't count in the world of marginal gains. They'll have a real head scratcher on their hands in the marketing meeting if they go that route.
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jeffy wrote:win(d) tunnel saying disc brakes have only ~25% of the drag of shoe covers.

Do you have a link to this data?

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Definitely disc.

If you up the contrast, you can see that the Roval decals on the wheels go all the way up to the edge of the rim, which I doubt would be the case with rim brakes (hydraulic or otherwise)

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Here's another photo. You can see a DT Specialized RWS skewer poking out of the left hand drop out. So it's discs not rim brakes as there'd be no need for a bolt through axle on a rim brake operated bike.
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