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Electric/hydraulic brakes
Shimano have filed a patent. Force transducer in the lever coupled to a
hydraulic pump & brake caliper. -- JS |
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On Friday, May 28, 2021 at 12:16:31 AM UTC+1, James wrote:
Shimano have filed a patent. Force transducer in the lever coupled to a hydraulic pump & brake caliper. -- JS .. Makes one wonder what a bike-sized Citroen-style power brake compression chamber would weigh. I loved my Citroen SM, basically a Maserati designed by Citroen's most futuristic thinkers but it was so fragile that at one stage I had three, one to drive till it broke again, one in perfect order on standby, and one being fixed after it broke at a specialist fortunately only about fifteen miles from Cambridge; it was the carelessly shortened engine that broke, never the brakes or other proven Citroen bits straight off the DS.. I had a couple of DS too, one when they were new in South Africa which I liberated from the production budget of a film I directed while still a student, one as a near-Classic in Australia, where it proved itself tough as nails. You could have a softly suspended bike with superior brakes, glide across the bumps and the potholes and tramlines... Andre Jute Esoteric |
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James wrote:
Shimano have filed a patent. Force transducer in the lever coupled to a hydraulic pump & brake caliper. That’ll be a hoot when your battery goes flat during a ride, although if every bike ever made from this point onwards is an e-bike, it’ll be less of an issue. |
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On Fri, 28 May 2021 01:04:50 +0000 (UTC), Ralph Barone
wrote: James wrote: Shimano have filed a patent. Force transducer in the lever coupled to a hydraulic pump & brake caliper. That’ll be a hoot when your battery goes flat during a ride, although if every bike ever made from this point onwards is an e-bike, it’ll be less of an issue. Nope, just mount a small internal combustion engine down there above the BB and you can keep the battery charged :-) -- Cheers, John B. |
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