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Peter Clinch
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David Damerell wrote:
> This is not necessarily true. If the brake could be put completely on with
> the touch of a feather, it would be impossible to make a controlled
> emergency stop; if the brake required your absolute maximum hand strength
> to put on, it would also be impossible. Therefore it is nonsense to say
> that less (or more) force always makes it easier.
>
> Somewhere between those two points is a spot or region where it is
> easiest, but to say that that's a spot not a region and that that spot
> happens to be the amount of force required by the brakes you have _and_
> that that will be true for any user is pure guesswork.
But rather less guesswork if they happen to have considerable experience
of multiple brake systems. How much time have you actually spent using
hydraulic brake systems?
> Bog ordinary cantilevers. You don't need hydraulic discs to make a
> controller emergency stop at high speeds.
No, but that doesn't mean to say it wouldn't be easier. Again I ask,
how much time have you actually spent using hydraulic brake systems?
Pete.
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Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
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> This is not necessarily true. If the brake could be put completely on with
> the touch of a feather, it would be impossible to make a controlled
> emergency stop; if the brake required your absolute maximum hand strength
> to put on, it would also be impossible. Therefore it is nonsense to say
> that less (or more) force always makes it easier.
>
> Somewhere between those two points is a spot or region where it is
> easiest, but to say that that's a spot not a region and that that spot
> happens to be the amount of force required by the brakes you have _and_
> that that will be true for any user is pure guesswork.
But rather less guesswork if they happen to have considerable experience
of multiple brake systems. How much time have you actually spent using
hydraulic brake systems?
> Bog ordinary cantilevers. You don't need hydraulic discs to make a
> controller emergency stop at high speeds.
No, but that doesn't mean to say it wouldn't be easier. Again I ask,
how much time have you actually spent using hydraulic brake systems?
Pete.
--
Peter Clinch Medical Physics IT Officer
Tel 44 1382 660111 ext. 33637 Univ. of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital
Fax 44 1382 640177 Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK
net [email protected] http://www.dundee.ac.uk/~pjclinch/