Quoting Roger Merriman <
[email protected]>:
>standurd brakes, mostly V brakes with the drum to assist. does also beg
>the question if heat is a problem then why use the rim with the risks
>that come with that. but use a disk where if it gets hot it shouldn't
>cause any problems bar brake fade.
Or the disc warping, the hydraulic fluid boiling, plastic bits catching on
fire... yes, Santana produced all these failure modes in disc brakes.
>does suggest that braking is heat rather than stronger brakes, for the
>tamdems.
Stronger brakes as well. For the same deceleration a tandem brake is
working twice as hard, and a tandem can manage higher decelerations than
any solo.
The real answer is that what people think of as "strong" brakes aren't.
_Any_ sensible design of brake can lift the rear wheel (or skid the front
wheel on a poor surface). For solo bikes there is no difference in brake
strength from one design to another.
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