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Bike Stopping distances?
Bob wrote:
Looking for a chart with bike stopping distances. Perhaps there's something out there where they compared brake types, pads, tires, etc - maybe even under wet and dry conditions? Thanks, Hey Bob... here's the easy chart. No numbers, no doubt, no calculations... just unadulterated collective experience. Chart key: Good enough means that stopping distance prevents you from hitting a car or tree. Anything else means that stopping distance doesn't prevent you from hitting the car or tree. V-brakes - good enough Dual-pivots - good enough Centerpulls - good enough Cantilevers - good enough Single-pivots - ehh U-brakes - bleah Some specific Shimano brake pads - screech *bam!* rim blowout Most others - good enough Road tires - good enough unless turning MTB tires - good enough unless turning Crappy colored-tread tires - like riding glass on glass Wet - good enough Dry - good enough Gravel - get up off the saddle Sand - uh oh Pond/River/Ocean - bail out quick -- Phil, Squid-in-Training |
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Bike Stopping distances?
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:15:01 -0400, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
wrote: Wet - good enough Dry - good enough Gravel - get up off the saddle Sand - uh oh Pond/River/Ocean - bail out quick Add: Leaves: Expect to slide...lots. "Wet" can have variable results; the first dampening of a road that has been dry for a while may produce a lubricant film that renders al other considerations moot. -- Typoes are a feature, not a bug. Some gardening required to reply via email. Words processed in a facility that contains nuts. |
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Bike Stopping distances?
here on planet xenon, the relationship of reality to braking is
relatively unstable even on good days. on the better days, garbbing a handleful of brake lever rounding a hedge at 20 mph into an unseen stream of cycling duhduhjduh tourists will NOW stop the frame, tilt everything up on the front wheel and almost throw me endo onto the street. on a abd day... its into the hedge or canal, dragging both feet. i come to the conclusions: 1) humidity is a prime factor and following that 2) the effective adjustment as hoped for by the brake system's designer is very narrow that is to say within eyeball specs only 10 percent of eyeball is actually what the designer had in mind that leaves you with the humidity off course on planet xenon moist of the time. like you can tune it, dewdew, and 20 minutes later its snafuville again!! |
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