Living through different times

[Vapin' Joe]

I can understand driverless cars, despite the odd inevitable failure once the system is perfected eliminating the possibility of driver error would drastically reduce road accidents. But electronic brakes on a bike have no advantage at all over cable or hydraulic systems. They would still need to be applied manually and make no improvement at all to a bikes ability to stop or the speed at which they can be applied. All they do is add a dangerous complication to replace something that already works as it should.

So this garden shed project is very clever and interesting, but completely dead in the water as a commercial concept.

 

[classic33]

How about someone else operating your brakes.

https://tomcatuk.org/product/occupational-and-lifestyle-aids/smart-brake-system/

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

How about someone else operating your brakes.

https://tomcatuk.org/product/occupational-and-lifestyle-aids/smart-brake-system/

Couples on tandems could outsource the brakes to their wife on the back

which reminds me
why does the woman of a standard couple always ride on the back
she is normally shorter so can;t easily see forward over him - I have seen this quite a few times

 

[Shearwater Missile]

Wireless brakes

I must have them - when are they out ?

At the same time as cordless braces.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Just to play devil's advocate. There's no backup for a snapped cable either.

A spare cable?

 

[silva]

Couples on tandems could outsource the brakes to their wife on the back

which reminds me
why does the woman of a standard couple always ride on the back
she is normally shorter so can;t easily see forward over him - I have seen this quite a few times

Couple on 2 bikes does that too.
2 couples together, 2 men ride ahead, 2 women follow.
.
In army drills they also put the tallest men at the front and the shortest at the back.

It's to avoid Trouble:

 

[C R]

A spare cable?

So you can also carry a spare battery.

 

[roley poley]

we are living through different times as i can now easily take pictures on my phone of the job in hand for its reassembly with ease ...also look up a vid on youtube of someone who has been there before me for guidance (park tool for example) rather than the how to do it books that i still have oily thumbed and well loved

 

[Katana]

Electric brakes? They could be linked to your mapping device. A bit of AI would decide when to apply them.
What could possibly go wrong

😂

 

[C R]

Snap!


View: https://www.reddit.com/r/Justridingalong/comments/1scab5a/guy_came_into_the_shop_just_in_time_hahaha/?utm_source=embedv2&utm_medium=post_embed&utm_content=post_title

 

[Oldhippy]

Clearly not checking regularly I'd say.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Clearly not checking regularly I'd say.

Yep, that cable would have been showing its deterioration for some time.

 

[C R]

Yep, that cable would have been showing its deterioration for some time.

I'm not sure, it looks more like a deliberate cut than a cable break. My money is on this being staged.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I'm not sure, it looks more like a deliberate cut than a cable break. My money is on this being staged.

Doesn't look real to me. Its broken on a straight stretch and all the broken strands are the same length. Either it has been sabotaged or it's a set-up for clicks. Most likely the latter.

 

[Oldhippy]

Bit sad that someone would do that. It is rapidly becoming a world that gets stranger every day.