Quote by Swampy:
"do you remember Pros falling off their bikes like Lemmings on a regular basis?"
Why yes...yes I do! My memory still works...apparently better than your brakes.
Although this 'lemming' would break your nose with a sneer for insinuating he was a lemming...right after breaking his own...in a fall...like a lemming. He was a badger, after all. And Honey badger don't stop. Honey badger don't care.
"Sure they have more "tire" for grip but that's not the discussion here."
Uh...actually, it is. The weakest link in any bicycle braking system, be it a coaster brake, rim brake or drum/disc is where the rubber meets the road. And that 3/4 of a second we call 'reaction time'. And weight transfer.
In 42 seasons and starting out when I was young, invincible, unafraid of anything outside of a paternal lawsuit...I did some pretty wild and crazoid things on a bike. I never went to the amberlamps or hospital over not having enough woah ho power on the machine. And that's coming from a guy that raced a season on craptastic Mafac "Racer" centerpulls manufactured from France's finest sponge rubber.
"do you remember Pros falling off their bikes like Lemmings on a regular basis?"
Why yes...yes I do! My memory still works...apparently better than your brakes.
Although this 'lemming' would break your nose with a sneer for insinuating he was a lemming...right after breaking his own...in a fall...like a lemming. He was a badger, after all. And Honey badger don't stop. Honey badger don't care.
"Sure they have more "tire" for grip but that's not the discussion here."
Uh...actually, it is. The weakest link in any bicycle braking system, be it a coaster brake, rim brake or drum/disc is where the rubber meets the road. And that 3/4 of a second we call 'reaction time'. And weight transfer.
In 42 seasons and starting out when I was young, invincible, unafraid of anything outside of a paternal lawsuit...I did some pretty wild and crazoid things on a bike. I never went to the amberlamps or hospital over not having enough woah ho power on the machine. And that's coming from a guy that raced a season on craptastic Mafac "Racer" centerpulls manufactured from France's finest sponge rubber.
Apart from that I don't recall him crashing too much. The peloton as a whole could make it around corners in the rain too - until you got the likes of Vanderaaden, Kelly and Bontempi trading elbows and punches mid sprint. It rained on a flat stage in the Giro and again riders fell off. In the second group of the break no less - ain't like they were struggling for a clear view of the road. Say it ain't so. I said the discussion wasn't about tire grip - despite the obvious fact that you need tires to grip under braking otherwise you skid and things get bit hairy... It seems to be implied around these parts that disk brakes will be incapable of stopping a bicycle effectively. Yeah right... ayeYo, Nice diatribe - but the last time I drove a 125cc kart (a rotaxmax challenge kart) I don't recall having to apply the brakes hard to make them work. Either I have the ankle flex power of Zeus or the required forces needed to actuate those brakes weren't all that large - and when you're on an autocross course in a kart it's a free for all with regards to speed but when you need to stop you need to do so in a hurry. Single pot? Screw that! MTB's have four pot systems although stoppers like the Formula RO are only two pot and will haul you to a stop damned fast. Don't recall needed vacuum assist or hand strength of 50 men to two finger operate the front brake on the old Fzr1000 either... I didn't develop bulging muscles like Popeye in my leg for rear braking Wait... A world class trails rider saying his Hope disk brakes on his Colnago have more power and modulation than rim brakes? What was that again? More POWER? http://youtu.be/wGIAuV8Qbek
