Originally Posted by
Sixty Fiver
I always thought that maximum braking on a bicycle was rough;y .66 g's but TAOC states that a very skilled cyclist can generate as much as .8 g's in a stop without having the rear wheel lift off the ground... this type of braking is nearly equal to very high end sports cars with 4 wheel disc brakes.
Yup... they are the same for all practical purposes. The limit of a bicycle on dry pavement is an endo... I've done this a couple of times. Then it becomes a question of the friction coefficient of skin on pavement... which is pretty high, unfortunately...