Do you cover breaks more then you don't?

Page may contain affiliate links. Please see terms for details.

SpokeyDokey

68, & my GP says I will officially be old at 70!
Moderator
Brakes.

FFS.

Hard message to get across - teaching standards slipping and all that.

Not as bad as would've being written as would of, which is an entirely different animal.

Mind you language morphs and the other day I read a post on a car forum where every the was written as d. Mind you, that's pretty good use of the planet's resources as every virtual letter must consume a teeny-weeny amount of power to produce.
 

Ian H

Ancient randonneur
On curvy or straight roads. If you lose the rear wheel in a turn, you've lost it and cannot recover. Emergency braking means braking at maximum deceleration which is limited by the rear wheel lifting. If the rear wheel just-just wants to lift and you apply rear brakes, it will quickly lose traction and move out sideways and you'll lose control. Emergency braking (and hard practiced braking) involves the front wheel only.

In situations where traction is limited it gets a bit more complex but the long and the short of it is front brake to be applied harder than rear.

Little of this accords with my experience.
 

mjr

Comfy armchair to one person & a plank to the next
Emergency braking means braking at maximum deceleration which is limited by the rear wheel lifting. If the rear wheel just-just wants to lift and you apply rear brakes, it will quickly lose traction and move out sideways and you'll lose control. Emergency braking (and hard practiced braking) involves the front wheel only.
Not necessarily. On upright bikes with luggage on the back, the rear wheel is very difficult to lift with the front brake and you really really need the rear wheel braking to help stop you sooner. Of course, I still agree with this:
the long and the short of it is front brake to be applied harder than rear.

Back to the OP: yes, I cover my brakes most of the time and always in built-up areas. When out in the countryside on a simple road without junctions, I sometimes move onto the hooks or the tops on bikes which don't have brakes I can reach from those positions - and I ride far enough out from the verge that I can swerve to avoid most animals that run out (everything from rats to badgers so far).
 
OP
OP
Mr_Kipling

Mr_Kipling

Über Member
Location
Berkshire
Brakes.

FFS.
Oh No..... not another spelling policeman. Do you get a huge kick by correcting people on their spelling on an internet forum?
 

Dan B

Disengaged member
I've had the rear wheel slide out in turns many a time (wet manhole covers, that kind of thing) without anything worse than a bit of a lurch. I've never recovered a front wheel slide
 

derrick

The Glue that binds us together.
Brakes, what ever works for you, I use both most of the time, normally front comes on sooner than the rear, different weather conditions call for different ways of breaking, my brakes are covered if my hands are on the bars.:whistle:
 
Location
Loch side.
I've had the rear wheel slide out in turns many a time (wet manhole covers, that kind of thing) without anything worse than a bit of a lurch. I've never recovered a front wheel slide
Yes, that is quite doable. However, the skid is confined (and caused) by something small and slippery and there is sufficient traction beside it to recover. The scenario I'm talking about is the one where the surface is uniformly slippery or, uniformly abrasive but you have lost traction.

0n a motorcycle it is possible to control a skid in a turn but the same is not possible on a bicycle. Reason is, our narrow tyres. On a wide motorcycle tyre the tyre is wide enough for the wheel to actually carve two radii in the turn. A big one for the outside section of the tyre and a small one for the inside. Motorcyclist can therefore half-skid half-grip (the outside radius is sliding, the inside gripping). That creates a controlled slide. On a bicycle, the slide is sudden and precipitous with no warning (lots of warning on motorbikes) and thus just about zero chance of recovering it. We see this in races all the time - the rear comes out, the bike leans more and more and then falls flat.
 

gavintc

Guru
Location
Southsea
Oh No..... not another spelling policeman. Do you get a huge kick by correcting people on their spelling on an internet forum?
Because the misspelt word completely changes the meaning. I had to check it was not in the racing sub group. It is not difficult to get it right.
 
Top Bottom