"Benjamin Lewis" wrote in message
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Anonymous "expert" snipes again:

On Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:33:52 -0800, Benjamin Lewis wrote:

- loose surfaces don't lend themselves well to hard front braking.
(I
suppose this holds for most mountain biking though.)
- you can't brake as hard going downhill before lifting your rear
wheel
(maybe this isn't true; that's just my immediate intuition).

Sorry, but you're way out.

Well, I'm sorry too, but just telling me I'm wrong without attempting
to
explain why is hardly likely to convince me.

Sorry, I hadn't realise we were trying to convince you of anything. I
figured a certain amount of humility on your part would prevail when
discussing a subject, of which you have little/no experience, with a
group that has it by the bucketload.

Give me a break. Even if I knew you, considered you an expert, and
respected your opinions, if you disagreed with me I would expect you to
tell me why. Just saying "sorry, you're wrong" is useful to nobody.

As it is, you're just an anonymous poster on usenet. I never even
insisted
my first intuitions were correct, I just said, in effect, "this is what I
would have expected, for these reasons". If you want me to blindly
believe
*your* statements, just because you claim to be from "a group with lots of
experience", you've got a long wait ahead of you.

The only person yet to have offered a reasonable explanation why
instantaneous braking forces can be higher on DH runs is Jobst Brandt,
elsewhere in this thread.


Ah, yes, Jobst Brandt, that paragon of off-road downhilling.

Greg