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In news:timmcn-8EE116.15004204062003@gemini.visi.com, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> typed:
>
> James Annan, Jobst Brandt and Chris Juden- to name three- are not "clueless and inexperienced
> morons."

Jobst AFAIK doesn't ride mountain bikes, Chris does but I've found some of his comments in the CTC
magazine "curious", James I don't know about.

> When it's muddy, I don't ride on the trails because it's destructive and leads to trail erosion
> and closures. Riding in the mud may be fun, but it's selfish.
>

If I followed that advice I would rarely get out off-road ;-(

> Disk brakes *do* exert an ejection force on the axle because the design necessarily makes it so.
> Simple as that. If you want to experiment, turn your bike upside down, loosen the QR, spin your
> wheel in the appropriate direction, and hit the brake. The axle will pop out of the dropout either
> partially or completely. That *is* the design flaw and it's not a hypothesis, unless you think
> that Newtonian laws of physics and pi are also hypotheses.
>

I guess you could say, take out all the wheel bolts on a car and drive down the road. The wheels
fall off. Is that a design flaw? No because the wheel bolts prevent them from falling off. It is not
uncommon that things would come apart in use without the fasteners. So whether its a design flaw or
not depends on the design of the fastening system.

Tony

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Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message
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<snip>

> Modern bicycle disk brakes are a real improvement in one situation only: mud.

What total, utter and complete 'codswallop' (as my gran would have said). Modern hydraulic disk
brakes (not talking about the nasty stuff here) out-perform modern cable rim brakes (again,
referring to good quality pieces of engineering) in every desirable way _period_.

I live in the UK, have ridden in wet, dry, clean and muddy using both rim brakes (centre pull and
side pull road callipers, MTB canti's, MTB V's) and hydraulic disc (Hope Mini) at different times.
The hydraulic disk out-performs any of the rim brakes in any and all conditions.

Overall stopping power is greater and requires less physical effort, controlling the delivery of
that stopping power is easier than with (especially) the V's - there's just no question about their
superior performance.

Wake up and smell the bacon.

Shaun aRe

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"David Damerell" <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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>
> How _exactly_ can you have more stopping power than enough to lift the back wheel?
>

Modulation. V-brakes are too grabby so you can't go confidently as close to the limit as you can
with discs. Personally I think the hydraulics are the key factor though as in the dry my Magura rim
brakes are everybit as good as my Hope discs

>
> Yes, hauling away on brake levers is pretty hard work - not like that pedalling stuff, that
> anyone can do.
> --

You have clearly never ridden a long technical downhill on a bike or you would not be saying that

Tony

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Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

In newsravdvoespbe2ijkfuo6jfna565l87fdfr@4ax.com, Jasper Janssen <jasper@jjanssen.org> typed:
> On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 18:32:22 +0100, "Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:
>
>> There are very few circumstances that would push a front wheel forward out of a dropout
>
> How about braking on the rear wheel?
>

The ejection forces in such circumstances are less than you would get from gravity if you lifted the
front of your vertical dropout bike. If you are that concerned about the ability of your QR to
retain your wheel under those conditions stop riding now!

Tony

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Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer

Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

In news:req*e3dUp@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk, David Damerell
<damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> typed:
>
> Sure I haven't. Or maybe I have? Who knows? It's still got to be a damn sight less work for the
> fingers to work the brakes than for the legs to push you _up_ the hill in the first place.

You are just demonstrating further that my first response was right. Just for fun, sit on the couch
and squeeze a tennis ball hard for five minutes. See that's so much easier than doing something real
like pedalling uphill. Perhaps if you had ridden mountain bikes downhill with different braking
system your "theoretical" views on their performance would have more credibility

Tony

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Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer

Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

In news:timmcn-264DF6.17584806062003@gemini.visi.com, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> typed:
>
> Or you could consider the reality of physics. It's harder to pedal a bike uphill than to squeeze
> the brake levers coming down hill. Or does sitting on the couch squeezing your tennis ball elevate
> your heart rate and make you short of breath? ;-)
>

Bet I can ride a bike up hill for longer than you can keep a tennis ball squeezed.

Tony

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Finally, it is accepted as self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer

Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

"Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:

>In news:timmcn-264DF6.17584806062003@gemini.visi.com, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> typed:
>>
>> Or you could consider the reality of physics. It's harder to pedal a bike uphill than to squeeze
>> the brake levers coming down hill. Or does sitting on the couch squeezing your tennis ball
>> elevate your heart rate and make you short of breath? ;-)
>
>Bet I can ride a bike up hill for longer than you can keep a tennis ball squeezed.

If you're talking about sqeezing the ball just hard enough to simulate the force needed to slow down
a MTB, my money's on Tim. I haven't ever finished a ride thinking "wow, my arms are wasted", but
plenty of 'em thinking "wow, my legs are wasted". In fact, the closest I've ever come to pumping out
my arms was on a road bike!

Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles http://www.habcycles.com Home of the $695 ti frame

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> Are you talking about the bead slipping on the rim or the bead actually tearing?

Tearing. The bead was made up of two steel wires and the rubber pulled off of them.

--
Phil, Squid-in-Training

Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message
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> Shaun Rimmer <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:
> >Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message
> >>Modern bicycle disk brakes are a real improvement in one situation only: mud.
> >Overall stopping power is greater
>
> How _exactly_ can you have more stopping power than enough to lift the back wheel?

Oh dear, you are rather confused aren't you?

> >and requires less physical effort,
>
> Yes, hauling away on brake levers is pretty hard work - not like that pedalling stuff, that
> anyone can do.

Your sarcasm here merely serves to highlight your ignorance.

I'm really sorry that the facts are not to your liking - maybe you better fabricate some new ones
that please you.

Shaun aRe

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Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@sfu.ca> wrote in message
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> In article <07v3ev8qgi6h4jjj1v5lbj2fpj9rr6jq50@4ax.com>, Mark Hickey <mark@habcycles.com> wrote:
>
> > "Tony Raven" <junk@raven-family.com> wrote:
> >
> > >In news:timmcn-264DF6.17584806062003@gemini.visi.com, Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net>
> > >typed:
> > >>
> > >> Or you could consider the reality of physics. It's harder to pedal a bike uphill than to
> > >> squeeze the brake levers coming down hill. Or does sitting on the couch squeezing your tennis
> > >> ball elevate your heart rate and make you short of breath? ;-)
> > >
> > >Bet I can ride a bike up hill for longer than you can keep a tennis
ball
> > >squeezed.
> >
> > If you're talking about sqeezing the ball just hard enough to simulate the force needed to slow
> > down a MTB, my money's on Tim. I haven't ever finished a ride thinking "wow, my arms are
> > wasted", but plenty of 'em thinking "wow, my legs are wasted". In fact, the closest I've ever
> > come to pumping out my arms was on a road bike!
>
> I actually did finish a descent in a race a few weeks ago where I did so much braking my arms
> hurt, and it was a relief to start pedalling and stop braking. My arms were wasted .

I'd had frequent aching hands and forearms from braking on long/multiple descents before I fitted
the Hope brake, and for my size, I have quite large forearms, and I do have a good strong grip
(that'll be from the rock climbing I guess).

Even trying to keep a small constant/slightly modulated pressure applied with the fingers, at the
angles applicable to braking causes hands to stiffen and ache.

Shaun aRe - 'everyone knows that'...

Re: Missy Giove's QR pops open (long)

Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message
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> In article <bbq1h6$cdogt$1@ID-170198.news.dfncis.de>, "Shaun Rimmer"
> <shaun@newtronic.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> wrote in message
> > news:timmcn-8EE116.15004204062003@gemini.visi.com...
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > Modern bicycle disk brakes are a real improvement in one situation only: mud.
> >
> > What total, utter and complete 'codswallop' (as my gran would have
said).
> > Modern hydraulic disk brakes (not talking about the nasty stuff here) out-perform modern cable
> > rim brakes (again, referring to good quality
pieces
> > of engineering) in every desirable way _period_.
>
> In what way do they perform better?

I told you in the last paragraph, but I will add to that, 'they take a lot less maintenance to keep
at their peak performance than rim brakes'.

> > I live in the UK, have ridden in wet, dry, clean and muddy using both
rim
> > brakes (centre pull and side pull road callipers, MTB canti's, MTB V's)
and
> > hydraulic disc (Hope Mini) at different times. The hydraulic disk out-performs any of the rim
> > brakes in any and all conditions.
>
> In what way do they outperform?

Are you blind man?

> > Overall stopping power is greater and requires less physical effort, controlling the delivery of
> > that stopping power is easier than with (especially) the V's - there's just no question about
> > their superior performance.
>
> Utter tripe (the US version of codswallop, perhaps). Your stopping power is limited by traction
> and has nothing to do with what type of brakes you're using, as long as the brake can lock up
> the wheel.

Locking a wheel when the bike is static or moving slowly is easy. Get that speed up some, then
achieving the same becomes more difficult, as well as obviously less desireable. Good hydro discs
can achieve the same braking force with less lever pressure, and deliver it ina more consistant
(rather than condition dependant) and manageable manner that with rim brakes.

> > Wake up and smell the bacon.
>
> Wake up and stop hallucinating.

I believe you are projecting.

> Or go back to the Dwarf.

Oh dear, that cut me deeply - see you when I get back from victim therapy, heheheheheh....

Shaun aRe