No rear brakes to save weight?
06-11-16, 05:15 PM
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most of your stopping should be with rear brake. Too much pressure on front only could throw you over the front. ouch!!!
06-11-16, 05:39 PM
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Front brake only is okay on a FG bike, but stupid on a bike with a freewheel/freehub.
Rear brake only is ineffective and stupid.
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06-11-16, 09:16 PM
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06-12-16, 06:13 AM
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06-12-16, 07:13 AM
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I’ve had brake lever cable capture failure. Glad I had a back-up.
06-12-16, 10:00 AM
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The spinach is fine no snark necessary. No, you dont expose tread because a front tire on pavement does not skid. You cannot get your weight far enough aft to stop going over the bars. This is a rehash of a recent thread where one of our own confessed tossing his wife over him and the bars on a tandem when the front tire stopped turning. Yes it does irk me to see this misinformation repeated but then this is BF where every novice poster has an opinion.
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The spinach is fine no snark necessary. No, you dont expose tread because a front tire on pavement does not skid. You cannot get your weight far enough aft to stop going over the bars. This is a rehash of a recent thread where one of our own confessed tossing his wife over him and the bars on a tandem when the front tire stopped turning. Yes it does irk me to see this misinformation repeated but then this is BF where every novice poster has an opinion.
06-12-16, 11:06 AM
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In a panic stop, shift your weight back to increase overall braking capacity. Yes, you have to feather the rear, but you also double the contact patch. I would think that shifting back in a panic stop would be reflexive for experienced riders.
On a sketchy descent (low traction) using the rear brake keeps you from locking the front and skidding sideways and eating pavement.
You will only lock your front brake on flat, dry, pavement, if you seize it in a panic grip and don't relax as the bike slows. if some folks have learned some technique to lock up their front brakes at speed ... good job. Maybe try a different technique. Never happened to me, and I have had plenty of chances.
Off-road, it is easy to lock up a front brake---and fall over sideways. Again, one learns to crash or one learns to brake properly. Your choice.
The guy who claims he launched his stoker on a tandem is lying. Simple as that. Fell over sideways? Sure. No way any front tire on any surface can hold against the force of a human being at the end of a five-foot lever. Creative writing is a skill, and story-telling (usually involving considerable exaggeration) has been a feature of human society since before history. Physics, on the other hand, pretty much doesn't change with the times---or the telling.
On a sketchy descent (low traction) using the rear brake keeps you from locking the front and skidding sideways and eating pavement.
You will only lock your front brake on flat, dry, pavement, if you seize it in a panic grip and don't relax as the bike slows. if some folks have learned some technique to lock up their front brakes at speed ... good job. Maybe try a different technique. Never happened to me, and I have had plenty of chances.
Off-road, it is easy to lock up a front brake---and fall over sideways. Again, one learns to crash or one learns to brake properly. Your choice.
The guy who claims he launched his stoker on a tandem is lying. Simple as that. Fell over sideways? Sure. No way any front tire on any surface can hold against the force of a human being at the end of a five-foot lever. Creative writing is a skill, and story-telling (usually involving considerable exaggeration) has been a feature of human society since before history. Physics, on the other hand, pretty much doesn't change with the times---or the telling.
06-12-16, 02:36 PM
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I use the rear all the time for general slowing. I don't want the rear pads, calipers and rim to feel ignored.
I just don't tell them that the front brake gets the important braking.
I just don't tell them that the front brake gets the important braking.
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