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Vented Discs
On Jun 25, 4:59 pm, Andre Jute wrote:
snip I have seen bicycles that set their brakes on fire stopping after a straight line run on level ground, at Battle Mountain NV. I'll leave that one to the local scoffjaws, who're just engaging motor- drive. These were human powered bikes capable of 80km/h for an hour and sprints in excess of 110 km/h, not assist bikes. I have personally experienced tire failure due to brake heat riding down Big Cottonwood Canyon east of SLC UT. Why don't you tell us how long and steep this ride is, how irresponsibly you rode down there, how the tire failed, how you determined that it was due to brake heat. Note that I never said it is impossible, merely that the circumstances are rare and avoidable. I don't have the info on that ride, and from what I have seen on Google the road has been changed considerably since I did the race with my friends. The tire exploded off the rim when the bead melted and caused the tire to escape the rim. I was riding steel rims with centerpull calipers in the mid 1970s and the tires were rated to 95 PSI. We would ride our bikes to the ski resort at the top of the canyon, recover and then race to Wasatch Boulevard at the bottom of the canyon. There used to be a C-store there and whoever got to the door of the C-store first was the winner, bike had to be upright on the kickstand so you couldn't just ride up to the door you had to stop and park the bike like a normal person who had just exceeded the national speed limit on a 10 speed bicycle. Nobody had tires go down on the runs, just in the parking lot at the C-store, and sometimes they would fail spectacularly, as in flip the bike over and set it back upright on the seat and handlebars. When the tubes were replaced after the blowouts the tire almost every time would not seat the bead because of bead damage. Sometimes the damage was so easily spotted we didn't even try to reinstall it we just bought another tire. Now we crashed a whole bunch of different ways, but we never had a tire let go from the rim on the road. I had some scary moments on that bike with the steel rims in the rain, but never had a problem in the dry. That race down Big Cottonwood Canyon would wear out a new set of pads if you didn't save your brakes by sitting up with your hands on top of the bars before the turns |
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