>Because that's the sort of speeds you easily end up at if you try to keep up with cars downhill Not many people will do >50kmh even downhill (even with disk b

>Because that's the sort of speeds you easily end up at if you try to keep up with cars downhill Not many people will do >50kmh even downhill (even with disk brakes), and on the few occasions I've done so, I absolutely would not say there are "significant controllability problems". In fact, quite the opposite. [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Z8UgVOuw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN6Z8UgVOuw Nb - these were shot in the days before the 'supertuck' (sitting on the crossbar) was banned.