Coaster Brake Failure
 

https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket

Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+
years old?
--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

Coaster Brake Failure
 

AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket

Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+
years old?

They must have improved it.

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On 2019-02-25 07:29, Ralph Barone wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket

Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+
years old?

They must have improved it.


In German there is the inofficial word "verschlimmbessern". It sums up
the action of "Here we have a working design but let's optimize it
anyhow" and then it all goes to pots. A very common scenario in software
design.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On 2/25/2019 9:16 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket


Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+ years old?

Yes, I'd have liked some technical detail. Although I realize that's not
the point of the article.

I will say, a three speed with coaster brake is a fairly complicated
bucket of parts. I still don't know what was wrong with the Shimano one
that I had to disassemble multiple times because of its second gear
skipping. It's working now, but I don't feel confident about it.

OTOH, there's not much to the brake part of the device.

--
- Frank Krygowski

Coaster Brake Failure
 

Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-25 07:29, Ralph Barone wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket

Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+
years old?

They must have improved it.


In German there is the inofficial word "verschlimmbessern". It sums up
the action of "Here we have a working design but let's optimize it
anyhow" and then it all goes to pots. A very common scenario in software
design.


In Yiddish, it's "farpotchket", which loosely translates to "broken during
the act of fixing it".

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 8:39:17 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski wrote:
On 2/25/2019 9:16 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket


Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+ years old?

Yes, I'd have liked some technical detail. Although I realize that's not
the point of the article.

I will say, a three speed with coaster brake is a fairly complicated
bucket of parts. I still don't know what was wrong with the Shimano one
that I had to disassemble multiple times because of its second gear
skipping. It's working now, but I don't feel confident about it.

OTOH, there's not much to the brake part of the device.

Bad grease. https://www.sram.com/sites/all/theme...FINAL_1.19.pdf


-- Jay Beattie.

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 8:06:33 AM UTC-8, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-25 07:29, Ralph Barone wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket

Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+
years old?

They must have improved it.


In German there is the inofficial word "verschlimmbessern". It sums up
the action of "Here we have a working design but let's optimize it
anyhow" and then it all goes to pots. A very common scenario in software
design.

--
Regards, Joerg

http://www.analogconsultants.com/

You hit the nail right on the head. For projects that required very fast response from microprocessors I used to use assembly language. Because of that people started to use assembly language in many projects. The trouble is that assembly language is extremely tedious to program. So they would "improve" it by building libraries of assembly language subroutines. Then in order to use these you didn't know exactly what you had to do so you would save all of the registers and branch to the subroutine, save any necessary data from that and then return and retrieve all of the registers and data to use.

This was what higher level languages did but they usually did it more efficiently by only saving the necessary registers and not saving the returned data but simply passing it back.

This put C and C++ into the position that these higher level languages were actually both more memory efficient but also faster in operation.

This is what happens when people improve things that they don't understand.

Though I'm sure that those who don't know anything about this will have plenty of comments about it.

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On 2/25/19 3:16 PM, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket



Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+ years old?

It's fake news. We all know that the old days were *far* superior to
modern rim/disc brakes.

Honestly, greasing brakes!

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On 2/25/19 5:06 PM, Joerg wrote:
On 2019-02-25 07:29, Ralph Barone wrote:
AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket



Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+ years
old?

They must have improved it.


In German there is the inofficial word "verschlimmbessern". It sums
up the action of "Here we have a working design but let's optimize it
anyhow" and then it all goes to pots. A very common scenario in
software design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp_D8r-2hwk

Coaster Brake Failure
 

On 2/25/19 8:12 PM, jbeattie wrote:
On Monday, February 25, 2019 at 8:39:17 AM UTC-8, Frank Krygowski
wrote:
On 2/25/2019 9:16 AM, AMuzi wrote:
https://www.bicycleretailer.com/reca...nd-aftermarket




Mysterious. How the hell did that happen in a design 100+ years old?

Yes, I'd have liked some technical detail. Although I realize
that's not the point of the article.

I will say, a three speed with coaster brake is a fairly
complicated bucket of parts. I still don't know what was wrong with
the Shimano one that I had to disassemble multiple times because of
its second gear skipping. It's working now, but I don't feel
confident about it.

OTOH, there's not much to the brake part of the device.

Bad grease.
https://www.sram.com/sites/all/theme...FINAL_1.19.pdf

The prosecution rests its' case.