Originally Posted by Helmet Head
But, you'll never be able to out-brake him. You have reaction time working against you, plus bikes take more distance to stop than do most motor vehicles.
True that bike brakes don't perform as well as car or truck brakes. But reaction times for a cyclist will be quicker for a very strange reason: the nerve impulses have a much shorter distance to travel from the brain to a cyclist's hands, as compared to the distance from the brain to a driver's feet. This will result in measurably shorter RT for the cyclist to "hit the brakes."
Of course I wouldn't want to bet my life on it!
