I hit a car
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HJ
Cycling in Scotland
- Location
- Auld Reekie
Matthames
Über Member
- Location
- East Sussex
I did something similar once, but the bike I was using had 12 horses bolted onto the frame. I quickly found out that some panels on the Citroen AX are made from plastic. Which for me was quite fortunate, but rather unfortunate for the guy as I had just written off his motor. It still managed to cause a significant amount of damage to one of my knees, if that had been a metal car then the story would of been very different. Seeing Magnatom's video kind of brought it all back although the road conditions were different. In my case my road conditions were perfect, just that I was going too fast (Filtering heavy traffic at 40mph is always a bad idea).
hackbike 666
Guest
HJ said:
Not me.Although I have never used disc brakes I would have thought they were better than rim brakes.
BentMikey
Rider of Seolferwulf
- Location
- South London
HJ said:
Nothing to do with the brakes IMO, just failure to anticipate.
Touche said:
But if you have sharpened anticipation skills AND discs, so much the better. There have been times that I've been looking ahead, anticipating blah blah, then pulled the brakes and literally nothing happens for a few seconds. Now you could say "You should anticipate nothing happening for a few seconds with wet rim brakes" but if that was the case, I would ride at 3 or 4 mph and maybe not go out in the wet at all.
Rim brakes are crap in the wet.
thomas
the tank engine
- Location
- Woking/Norwich
dodgy said:
The amount of times I've stopped to see if some little rascal has undone my brakes....nope, just wet!
smeg
New Member
- Location
- Isle of Wight
Rim brakes are fine in the wet if they're set up properly with decent blocks and the wheels are true.dodgy said:
The chap hasn't phoned me back.
As well as giving him my details yesterday, the driver gave me his business card. I e-mailed him yesterday to make sure he definitely had my correct mobile number. So he definitely has my contact details.
Oh well.
I'm surprised at the lack of abuse so far on my youtube video...apart from one CC member of course....
As well as giving him my details yesterday, the driver gave me his business card. I e-mailed him yesterday to make sure he definitely had my correct mobile number. So he definitely has my contact details.
Oh well.
I'm surprised at the lack of abuse so far on my youtube video...apart from one CC member of course....
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
magnatom said:The chap hasn't phoned me back.
As well as giving him my details yesterday, the driver gave me his business card. I e-mailed him yesterday to make sure he definitely had my correct mobile number. So he definitely has my contact details.
Oh well.
I'm surprised at the lack of abuse so far on my youtube video...apart from one CC member of course....
Ahhh... but just wait until I can get on YouTube at home tonight!
goo_mason
Champion barbed-wire hurdler
- Location
- Leith, Edinburgh
dodgy said:
I agree.
Koolstop Salmons certainly help, especially if you brake lightly every now and again to scrub the rims and remove excess water, but rim brakes are NOTHING like as good as the disc brakes on my old MTB. No need to worry about stopping in the wet with those babies!
I've just bought a new bike, I had a really tough decision. My opinion of rim brakes are so poor, especially for a bike that would be predominantly used in the bad weather, that I was looking at options for a road bike with discs. Unfortunately, though there are a few brave manufacturers taking their first tentative steps in this area, the choice is pretty limited. I called Fatbirds (purveyor of titanium exotica) and they said one of the challenges of disc brakes on road bikes is the comparitively weak/flexible forks, meaning that wheel judder is a real problem.
goo_mason said:
I agree but then with disc brakes you may have much better performance in the wet but the weak spot then is the tire itself transfering that braking force into the road and bringing you to a halt.
I have discs and they are good in the wet but I find I need to alter my braking style to account for the wet road and lack of tire grip in being able to brake sharpish. I can lock them up in no matter what weather but im still not going to stop if the tire is skidding along the road as it can do very easily. I use Spez all condition armidillos aswell.
Obviously with a MTB this is no problem because of the knobbly tires but with road bike tires its something to bear in mind.