ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
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If your levers require loads of hand force to brake effectively, doesn't that mean you're using the wrong levers and should change to ones with a different pull ratio?It isn't about the brakes ability to lock the wheel, it is about control. The more powerful brakes can be applied without much hand force, making it easier regulate your braking.
Anyone who has driven a car with drum brakes will remember that you can easily lock the wheels - the trouble being that the pedal required so much force that you often did so. I cannot remember the last time I made the tyres squeal with discs.
Caliper brakes require more effort than discs, with which you can apply full power with two fingers. The cable operated discs on my 18kg recumbent trike gave more controllable stopping power than the rim brakes on my current 9kg upright, which feel weedy in comparison.If your levers require loads of hand force to brake effectively, doesn't that mean you're using the wrong levers and should change to ones with a different pull ratio?
I still think it's a matter of levers or setup not brake type.Caliper brakes require more effort than discs, with which you can apply full power with two fingers. The cable operated discs on my 18kg recumbent trike gave more controllable stopping power than the rim brakes on my current 9kg upright, which feel weedy in comparison.
I still think it's a matter of levers or setup not brake type.
Oops, I thought this was a new thread. I had already made that point in this one last year!
The esteemed brucey in a certain other place, who knows a ton about bikes and mechanicak things reckons that the case for discs is no way as clear cut as some think. Of course in a dastardly plot to try to force us to discs the braking surface of many quality rims is being shaved away not by pads but by the manufacturers.
There is one other important cost saving with disc brakes. Its pothole impacts, where the dents to rims will render a rim braked wheel junk at least the rim(plus rebuild cost). Disc brake rims can be dented and mis shapened and will still work forever.
Er, actually...I have run disc brakes for years and all my bikes have them now. Never has being fastidious about contamination of the pads come into it. What for? It only takes one wet, dusty or mucky ride to introduce foreign objects into the mix. And even then it makes no difference to performance. They are amazingly forgiving and easy to run.
Well, that appeal to authority certainly convinced me(!)You can think that however experience tells me you are incorrect.
Moderators can you change my username to Big Jessie?10 pages of this and that. Lets cut the crap. If you use disc brakes on a road bike you're a big jessie. Glad to clear that up.
But then we know Brucey is against anything invented after the boer war.