Originally Posted by
Jaywalk3r
Exactly one of us should
get right on that.
"The fastest that you can stop any bike of normal wheelbase is to apply the front brake so hard that the rear wheel is just about to lift off the ground. In this situation, the rear wheel cannot contribute to stopping power, since it has no traction." - Sheldon Brown
Someone's never heard of overheating brakes and how you should cycle between the front and the rear to avoid it, especially with disk brakes..., especially on a loaded bike. Perhaps if you cycled your brakes you wouldn't have to worry about the front ones failing? Or, you know, not have to worry about overheating them at all...
But no, go ahead, just drag the front brakes down the huge hill with your loaded bike. We'll see you at the bottom, fortunately we'll be the ones still rolling.
And how much is your rear lifting off of the ground with the bike being loaded?
Exactly how long have you been riding? Cause a rear brake makes a hell of a difference in most riding I do.