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quand vous l'obtenez à la fourchette dans la prise de route – Berra I
Brandt's most excellent discourse weighs heavily on me, an average rider, an average commuter, and
whoa an average commuter for god help me, I am average and no longer aspire to 9/10th's speed down
the road having done that and in general survived to tell the tale. Besides! As with most of my
friends, my eyesight and reflexes left with old age, wisdom crept in, and I got tired of the
expletive deleted 300lb cycle falling on me than scraping me off the pave so to hell with it.
Penicillin! Brandt on the other hand extols SPEED!!! GOD SPEED!! Hey jb, itsa nice day. Slow down
dude!! Well, maybe JB chose an engineering point to start off with, MAX SPEED, and then qualified
the MAX SPEED CONCLUSIONS with some waffle-ling about real world road surfaces, rain, oil, the
unbearable(ever hit a bear? Expel…) and off course the average unmentionable's inadequacy at
countersteering while casually, that is SLOW DUDE!! (READ RETARDDEAD) at only 75% MAX SPEED, weaving
down the road lika fu… broomstick for expl.!! Well, that's America. MAX MAX MAX. Maybe he's
incubating future riders of the peloton thru the window of opportunity. Cool! Cooler to convert the
discourse and weight those real world subjective data conditions as most important and leave the
racing as a separate category rather than the main category ah but that isn't gonna sell racing
geometry is it? See BM ‘s yearly bike review two years past when the economy wasa really cooking on
spec dough. Gee, I sound like Ralph Nadir. The average reader can quickly(ooppps) see the thread of
MAX running thru the entire six pages lika subversive subliminal element while the ever varying road
surface languishes with brief mention. "Oh, you ran over some coon slick at 9/10th's and broke your
arm in three places? It'll heal, don't let it bother you, think MAXSPEED MAXSPEED and you'll be back
screaming over the coon slick with a new Colnago in 6-7 months.No problema!" This BS(mine) is off
course an exercise in following the logic of the discourse(JB's) to its fallacious absurdity and
disregarding the fact that real world conditions were mentioned as qualifiers to the MAX SPEED
ETHIC. Engineer/cyclist. Primo. And don't forget, lives in CA where the gnomes come out at nite and
scrape the coon slick offen the streets.
The problem, briefly noted in passing, delineated by the lab testing equipment and further defined
by charley smith who said "bodies in motion tend to stay in motion" and then began designing brake
systems that brake the vehicles rear first for arrow stability before the unsprung weight heaves
itself forward to the front wheels *****-nilly depending on the walenda vector then applies the
front with more force than the rear. Lookit the little holes if you don't believe me. No, not the
ones in your backyard! Those are from horny space aliens. Now, a word from a sleepy trucker just in
over the snow from Bismark.See any cyclists out there, Curtiss?" Nope, but I hit a big coon" "I wuz
sleepy" "But we kept the rear in the back thank the Lord ABS." AND A WORD FROM A TOURING FRAME
DESIGNER!! And off course JB counts several touring frame designers as friends or conversational
acquaintance and has digested those opinions into the cited discourse on braking. Does chainstay
length and rear rack weight alter the credo max breaking front wheel braking to the point of rear
wheel lift-off as the way to brake? Does the chainstay/baggage factor increase the need for coon
slick factor awareness? Only Bruce Gordon knows for sure. But seriously, there's appoint here where
the frontbrake only-max speed no longer makes sense(and we passed it several hundred words ago)
Riders could be grouped into categories of: slow(ooopps) or casual, touring/commuter, sport
touring/commuter, sport, sport/mitty, sport/racing, racing, competitive racing. Who gets to balance
front and rear brakes? Who needs MAX BRAKING MAX SPEED?? Who hid my hub adapter? It was said that GP
motorcyclists made excellent GP FI drivers, in the rain, as the bikers exquisite sense of balance
gave an pronounced advantage over the car throwers. FINALLY, (and don't send me nasty emails that
whining that you can't read this or it doesn't make sense-if you can't read it don't read it-go out
and MAX BRAKE MAX SPEED under a bus) there's this question-if a bike, gear and rider weight is X and
two tire contact patches are Y(math, dig it we quantify here) X/Y=1 with 1 as say 200lbs from 20 mph
to 0 mph in 50 feet then how does braking improve when X/.5Y=2 not to mention the
insidiuous,sometimes monumental granitic forces of imbalance foisted on the unwary as the "rear tire
lifts off". Rocket science!!! "the rear tire lifts off!" Does the peloton do this? Where do we
stand? Outsight! How much faster can front wheel only be from rear first then front. That's almost
both at once now with modulation for the surface traveled while decelerating. And whater the Odds?
quand vous l'obtenez à la fourchette dans la prise de route – Berra I
