James Annan vaguely muttered something like ...

"A light hand force of 5 lbs was applied to the brake lever every 10
seconds for 3 seconds duration. This caused braking torque to be applied
to the wheel. The drums had 3 equally-spaced cleats (0.5" high the same
as those used on wheel fatigue test T027) to create bumps for the front
wheel to go over

How was the 5 lbs measured ?

As an ex Torque Control Engineer (Desoutter / Georges Renault) I feel the
tests would be more relevant using a range of braking forces from light to
as much as possible, commensurate with the force a human hand can exert ...
and varying the pads, configuration of forks, bumps etc as well as having a
'control' set. Maybe they are running more tests and you have interim
results ?

Did they have a specification to work to for the tests ?


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Paul ...

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