Originally Posted by
StanSeven
That's interesting. Thanks for posting.
They didn't do a test on good roads with wet conditions. That's what I did. The best I got was five feet better with disc. The other times were a couple feet at most. But I was was going 15 mph and they were doing 25
Thing is, sometimes that five feet--or ONE foot--Is the difference between a close call, and severe injury or death.
Happens I have a story regarding this very thing: bombing down a steep hill, some ******* decided to U-turn, with no signal, right in front of me. Say less than 50'. With my disc brakes, I was able to feather the brakes right at the point before they locked. My tires were *literally* squealing. I stopped so close that I had to turn my front wheel to the right so as not to hit it against the side of his car. I was close enough to reach out and pound on his roof with my fist as I yelled curses at him. ONE foot--That little initial second it takes the rim brakes on my other bike to grab--would have resulted in me hitting his car and flying over, and being very badly injured. This one experience convinced me of the complete superiority of disc brakes--between the stopping power and the fast response and ability to finely modulate the deceleration.