Bike Stopping distances?

Bob wrote:
Looking for a chart with bike stopping distances. Perhaps there's
something out there where they compared brake types, pads, tires,
etc - maybe even under wet and dry conditions?

Thanks,

Hey Bob... here's the easy chart. No numbers, no doubt, no calculations...
just unadulterated collective experience.

Chart key:
Good enough means that stopping distance prevents you from hitting a car or
tree. Anything else means that stopping distance doesn't prevent you from
hitting the car or tree.

V-brakes - good enough
Dual-pivots - good enough
Centerpulls - good enough
Cantilevers - good enough
Single-pivots - ehh
U-brakes - bleah

Some specific Shimano brake pads - screech *bam!* rim blowout
Most others - good enough

Road tires - good enough unless turning
MTB tires - good enough unless turning
Crappy colored-tread tires - like riding glass on glass

Wet - good enough
Dry - good enough
Gravel - get up off the saddle
Sand - uh oh
Pond/River/Ocean - bail out quick

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Phil, Squid-in-Training

On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 01:15:01 -0400, "Phil, Squid-in-Training"
wrote:

Wet - good enough
Dry - good enough
Gravel - get up off the saddle
Sand - uh oh
Pond/River/Ocean - bail out quick

Add:

Leaves: Expect to slide...lots.

"Wet" can have variable results; the first dampening of a road that
has been dry for a while may produce a lubricant film that renders al
other considerations moot.
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here on planet xenon, the relationship of reality to braking is
relatively unstable even on good days.
on the better days, garbbing a handleful of brake lever rounding a
hedge at 20 mph into an unseen stream of cycling duhduhjduh tourists
will NOW stop the frame, tilt everything up on the front wheel and
almost throw me endo onto the street.
on a abd day...
its into the hedge or canal, dragging both feet.
i come to the conclusions: 1) humidity is a prime factor and following
that 2) the effective adjustment as hoped for by the brake system's
designer is very narrow that is to say within eyeball specs only 10
percent of eyeball is actually what the designer had in mind

that leaves you with the humidity off course on planet xenon moist of
the time.
like you can tune it, dewdew, and 20 minutes later its snafuville
again!!

wrote:
here on planet xenon,

That explains a lot.

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Phil, Squid-in-Training