On Thu, 05 Dec 2002 14:16:50 GMT, Mark Hickey <
[email protected]> wrote:
>James M. Lane <
[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>Given our history, my kicking your ass all over this ng, why the hell would you want to prevent me
>>from embarassing myself? Seems that you would relished that happening. Sorta trying to be my
>>friend, are you? Protecting me? Right. Just more of your covering your ass ********.
>
>Maybe he was trying to protect you from yourself...
>
>When Sheldon, in response to your claim that the dynamics of front wheel braking change
>dramatically if you shift your butt back, wrote:
>
>>>I don't believe this. On an upright bike of normal geometry, with the saddle adjusted for
>>>reasonable leg extension, I do not believe that even somebody with as big a butt as mine can get
>>>the center-of-gravity far enough back to shift the front brake from pitchover mode to skid mode
>>>for dry pavement.
>
>Then you suggested:
>
>>Yo, Sheldon,
>>
>>You are the great tester of these matters and I certainly am not. So, don;t tell us what you
>>BELIEVE; tell is what your find in your testing.
>
>Greg knows you're wrong, and Sheldon knows you're wrong... but they're both too smart and have too
>much experience to try to lock up a front wheel on pavement. Maybe he's worried that you'll try
>your little experiment on your own?
>
>Naaaah, maybe not.
>
>Mark Hickey Habanero Cycles
http://www.cynetfl.com/habanero/ Home of the $695 ti frame
Hi, Mark,
Regardless of the exchange between Sheldon and myself in another ng, the comments I have made here
about my booting greg all over this ng back about three years ago still stand. Shaun aRe's
ingnorance of what happened nothwithstanding.
As I said over there, this braking stuff seems counterintuitive. Further, Sheldon did moderate some
of what he was saying, not in response to my posts, but to others, did he not?
As far as experiment, I intend to do the parking lot thing suggested and see how it works out for
me. On a mtb going down a trail, I'll still stick with my rear brake. It is the road part that
intrigues me now.
Now, if you and the other troll please, let's keep what goes on in one place there and not in both,
or do you also want to troll here for what happened there like greg is?
jim