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Why do some forks and frames have brake rotor size limits?
On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 9:56:02 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 4:59:49 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote: On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 3:40:36 PM UTC-7, AMuzi wrote: On 10/28/2017 4:27 PM, jbeattie wrote: On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 12:08:44 PM UTC-7, Sir Ridesalot wrote: On Saturday, October 28, 2017 at 11:09:18 AM UTC-4, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-27 17:11, John B. wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 06:58:27 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-27 01:11, John B. wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:53:11 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-24 17:21, John B. wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:47:12 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-24 07:27, wrote: On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 2:19:48 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:09:20 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:48:29 +0700, John B. wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:51:15 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:02:08 +0700, John B. wrote: But re disc brake cooling F1 car brakes appear to work with the discs red hot. In the 1,000 degree (F) range. And they use Carbon Fiber discs too :-) And everyone knows that CF is better. "Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Fiber, and other Carbon Based Materials" http://www.christinedemerchant.com/carbon_characteristics_heat_conductivity.html "So...Is Carbon Fiber a good heat conductor? As usual the answer is "it depends." The short answer is NO not when regular carbon fiber is made up in regular epoxy and expected to conduct heat across the thickness. IF a highly carbonized pan fiber with graphite or diamond added, is measured for heat transmission in the length of the fiber it is very good and can rival and exceed copper." On the other hand, they seem to work pretty well :-) See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JcHAEmIYM for a visual indication of heat dissipation. :-) Impressive. I'll assume it's a carbon-carbon rotor, since all F1 cars seem to using them. Undoubtedly so. But if the advantage of "carbon" bikes can be extolled that a carbon-carbon frame must have twice the bragging rights :-) http://www.racecar-engineering.com/technology-explained/f1-2014-explained-brake-systems/ (4 pages) "A typical road car uses a cast iron brake disc with an organic brake pad. In an F1 car, though, the same material is used for both disc and pad, and this material is known as carbon-carbon - a significantly different material to the carbon-fibre composites used in the rest of the car" In other words, the F1 brakes are NOT made from CF. Some detail on Formula 1 brakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6XTdlKElw Fun destroying brakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslGsXMgmqg The brake starting at 4:45 sure looks like CF but I'm not sure. Maybe twin disk brakes would be easier? http://nuovafaor.it//public/prodotto/75/nccrop/DOPPIO_FRENO_CROSS_ENDURO.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pvwj-WWlKkg/maxresdefault.jpg https://gzmyu4ma9b-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Gatorbrake-dual-hydraulic-front-disc-brakes-carbon-rotors01.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cDfAFWrGR6Q/VHKPsm-f6YI/AAAAAAAAX10/2FCyj87xs0g/s640/14%2520-%25201.jpg https://www.minibikecraze.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/bs0978.jpg https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=56268 Given the coefficient of friction between a 1.25" wide rubber tire (32mm) and a wet road probably dragging the feet will work. :-) Joerg's experience is with full suspension MTB's. These things are incredibly heavy and long wheelbased. He has his judgement of disks and it is no doubt quite accurate for his experience and riding. I have disks on a much lighter and shorter wheelbased bike.. I know the failings up close and personal. I simply cannot imagine WHY a person would want a more complicated system than that offered by the Campy Skeleton brakes. The reason can be summed up in one word: Rain :-) But last Sunday I started out my "weekend" ride in the rain. It had been raining nearly all night and the roads had a lot of water on them - note we have been having floods here in Bangkok lately - but it appeared that the rain was ending so off I went. Unfortunately my weather forecasting facility wasn't working very well and I rode 20 Km of a 30 Km ride in light rain and flooded roads in many places. I was splashing through water in some places and cars were splashing through (and splashing me) in others. Of course, Sunday is much lighter traffic then on work days but still, Bangkok is rated as one of the cities with the most chaotic traffic in the world, and I did have to stop suddenly several time, on flooded roads with wet wheels and brakes. My brakes worked just as they do in the dry. Back brake stops me somewhat slowly and front brake stops rather suddenly, both brakes together provides best stopping. No long wait after grabbing a brake lever although I did think of you with your stopping problems and I have the feeling that the brake lever pressure might be a tiny bit more to stop in the rain but if it was it was so little that it couldn't be quantified. But of course I am using quality brake pads. Why it costs me US$12.12 a wheel just for pads alone.... but they do last a year or more. It seems Californian rain and Thai rain aren't the same. When it rains heavily and I have to do a surprise emergency stop after not having used the brakes for a while there is 1-2sec of nada, absolutely nothing. It makes no difference whatsoever whether I use $17 high-falutin Koolstop rain-rated pads or $4 Clarks pads. The experience of other riders around here and in this NG is similar. Which, to be honest, I find a little mystifying as I've had pretty constant success with conventional brakes. Frankly, I can't believe this is solely because I'm somehow so uniquely skilled or that y'all are all in the awkward squad I do see a number of people here and many who are not here who seem to have ridden for years using conventional brakes without complaint and some of the blogs I read don't even talk about brakes. Dave Moulton, for example. An old fellow, used to race bikes, came to the U.S. in about 1979 and built frames commercially for years, now retired, has one entry in his blog about brakes - "centering side pull brakes". Another blog from the long distance side of the bicycleing world, The Blayleys, who are into Audex's and who apparently each ride in the neighborhood of 10,000 miles annually, mentions Vee brakes in reference to a Tandem while a photo of them on a tandem on their web page shows disc brakes. On the other hand, when she discusses a "good brevet bike she simply says that the "brakes must clear the fenders and probably long reach caliper brakes will suffice". In short, it seems that brakes just don't seem to be a hot subject in much of the cycling fraternity. To a large part that is because most cyclist will not ride in driving rain. Some do and those know exactly how that delay with rim brakes feels. Occasionally it is called "free fall" because that's how it feels like. Well, the Blayleys state that the husband, John, has ridden 10 - 17 thousand miles a year for the past 25 years and the wife, Pamela, has ridden from 10 - 14 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years, or another way to put it might be that together they have ridden from 20 - 30 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years. Somehow I suspect that they may have encountered rain in that period. And grandpa has driven his cars without safety belts yet survived ... For people who do not shy away from unpaved roads or use a lot of singletrack and ride in the rain there is a much more extreme issue: Wet mud. You may have never encountered it but I have many times. You reach in and, after a second or two of nothing, the rim brakes come on but let off an awful grinding noise. You can literally hear the rim being tortured but because of a rapidly approaching curve you can't let go. As I have mentioned before the rims on my old MTB are only 1000mi old but the front rim is almost shot from all that. Deep grooves. I stand by my opinion that rim brakes are fair weather brakes. Then they are fine but not when the going gets tough. Like this kind of weather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mX_EKybzK4Y I might comment that I've ridden coaster brakes, drum brakes, rod pull brakes, cantilever brakes, side pull single pivot caliper brakes, double pivot caliper, Vee brakes and for one short ride a cable disc brake. and at the time I rode them I found all the brakes to give acceptable service. Well with one exception, rim brakes and chrome plated steel rims were sometimes a bit iffy :-) Yes, those were the worst. It got a little better with aluminum rims but not a lot. In the world of automotive such a brake "system" would not stand the slightest change of being legal. Finally after many decades the bicycle industry woke up and adopted what the automotive guys had all along, disc brakes. Why should I accept an inferior brake system on a new bike when there is a much better one? Well, when I worked on airplanes I remember that the F-4 had multi plate disc brakes which provided a tremendous amount of stopping power in a very small package. Some tandems have that as well, and of course motorcycles: Two discs up front. But not stacks of discs. One supposes that will be next big improvement in bicycle brakes.. Or perhaps a drag chute for those long downhill's to keep the rims from melting? I've thought about it :-) -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ Oh ****! I've ridden many hundreds of miles off road in dry and wet sand, mud, heavy rain, rutted roads/trails and did so on an MTB with cantilever brakes and NEVER had trouble stopping either when I needed to or when I wanted too. I've ridden on ice and in 4 inches+ deep snowand also never had trouble stopping. Perhaps you ride too fast for the conditions/sight lines or you don't keep your brakes adjusted properly. Really? I have trouble standing up on ice. There is a point at which you don't want super-strong brakes. -- Jay Beattie. Yeah me too. Snow is one thing - I'm used to that- but ice is quite another. Depending on the recent weather, a frozen slick patch of ice under snow will dump me right on my ass. We mere humans would have some trouble with Jobst's famous tour down a frozen Swiss river. I live at a whopping 400 feet (about) elevation. The garage in my building is probably 0 feet. That minor elevation change sometimes means the difference between ice and no ice -- so I walk outside in the morning and say f*** this! And then I jump in the car and half-way to work, creeping along in traffic, there is no ice -- and then I regret not riding. So, in order to avoid that regret, I have done some pretty stupid sh** spinning around on ice or hoofing it in my SPDs to get out of my neighborhood and then being freaked out riding over the slick bridges and viaducts into town. I met up with another guy on a bike who was fish-tailing down the road on one of those mornings, and we looked at each other and shook our heads -- "we're a couple of idiots." So, now I'm working on not feeling regret or guilt if I drive. And don't get me going about the dopes who jump into their Malibus with no-season/no-tread tires and crash on the ice and/or snow. I'll slap on the snow tires in November. I really miss studs, but I'm doing penance with studless. What sort of clothes do you wear to ride to work? And do you change at work or what? A local job in a very convenient location is probably within riding distance but the position (at HALF of what it should be paying) will probably need neat attire. I wear cycling clothes, change at work and rotate my work-clothes through the laundry in the lobby of my building. I've always commuted by bike and never worked more than 12 miles from home. There have been periods when I lived within a few miles of work, and I wore my work pants and kept shirts, ties and shoes at work -- which I did mostly in California because it hardly ever rained. -- Jay Beattie. |
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Why do some forks and frames have brake rotor size limits?
On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 2:02:17 PM UTC-7, jbeattie wrote:
On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 9:56:02 AM UTC-7, wrote: What sort of clothes do you wear to ride to work? And do you change at work or what? A local job in a very convenient location is probably within riding distance but the position (at HALF of what it should be paying) will probably need neat attire. I wear cycling clothes, change at work and rotate my work-clothes through the laundry in the lobby of my building. I've always commuted by bike and never worked more than 12 miles from home. There have been periods when I lived within a few miles of work, and I wore my work pants and kept shirts, ties and shoes at work -- which I did mostly in California because it hardly ever rained. Thanks for the advice Jay. |
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On 10/29/2017 12:02 PM, wrote:
On Friday, October 27, 2017 at 6:04:58 PM UTC-7, Frank Krygowski wrote: On 10/27/2017 8:42 PM, John B. wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 08:06:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote: On Friday, October 27, 2017 at 1:24:49 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Thu, 26 Oct 2017 13:37:00 -0400, Radey Shouman wrote: Joerg writes: On 2017-10-24 17:21, John B. wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:47:12 -0700, Joerg wrote: [ ... ] The reason can be summed up in one word: Rain :-) But last Sunday I started out my "weekend" ride in the rain. It had been raining nearly all night and the roads had a lot of water on them - note we have been having floods here in Bangkok lately - but it appeared that the rain was ending so off I went. Unfortunately my weather forecasting facility wasn't working very well and I rode 20 Km of a 30 Km ride in light rain and flooded roads in many places. I was splashing through water in some places and cars were splashing through (and splashing me) in others. Of course, Sunday is much lighter traffic then on work days but still, Bangkok is rated as one of the cities with the most chaotic traffic in the world, and I did have to stop suddenly several time, on flooded roads with wet wheels and brakes. My brakes worked just as they do in the dry. Back brake stops me somewhat slowly and front brake stops rather suddenly, both brakes together provides best stopping. No long wait after grabbing a brake lever although I did think of you with your stopping problems and I have the feeling that the brake lever pressure might be a tiny bit more to stop in the rain but if it was it was so little that it couldn't be quantified. But of course I am using quality brake pads. Why it costs me US$12.12 a wheel just for pads alone.... but they do last a year or more. It seems Californian rain and Thai rain aren't the same. When it rains heavily and I have to do a surprise emergency stop after not having used the brakes for a while there is 1-2sec of nada, absolutely nothing. It makes no difference whatsoever whether I use $17 high-falutin Koolstop rain-rated pads or $4 Clarks pads. The experience of other riders around here and in this NG is similar. I don't understand the difference myself. When it's really raining, meaning there's a continuous film of water on the road and a rooster tail shooting forward off the front tire, I ride like a little old lady, because of the delay in braking. Especially when it's dark, and leaves and other blown down crap cover the road. I suspect that may be the secret. I've never been "doored", perhaps because if I have to ride past a line of parked cars where a door might be opened I either slow down or ride further enough away that a door wouldn't hit me. Here the bike lane can be so narrow that the car door on a two-door totally covers the lane and there's no place to dodge because passing cars will spot that and not let you out. If the choice is to run into a car door or be run over by a car then I think I'd get off and walk. In practice, at least in my experience, the actual choice is between the _risk_ of getting hit by an opening door, and the _risk_ of a motorist deliberately running me over from behind. In my experience, the latter risk is almost zero. Consider, we're almost certainly talking about a place where there are witnesses, because the situation requires people parking, getting out of their cars, opposing traffic that would prevent the guy behind from changing lanes, etc. There just aren't that many psychopaths who would risk prison terms by deliberately running you over, especially because it would slow them down. On the other hand, the person doing the dooring doesn't have to be a psychopath. He just has to be inattentive. There are lots and lots of those people. Now, for corroboration: I have definitely had situations where a door popped open, and I would have been doored if I had been riding within reach. But while I've occasionally (but rarely) had motorists honk or yell when I claim a lane, I've never had one run me over. And let's remember that dooring can be fatal. If the door snags your right handlebar, the bike whips to the right and you are instantaneously thrown to the left, directly into the path of the cars you were so worried about. Where would these witnesses come from? The cars that simply continued driving? I don't know, Tom, but let me repeat: I've had some motorists act displeased when I've ridden at lane center. I've never had one run me over. I've never known another cyclist who had that happen. It doesn't pay to be timid. Man up. -- - Frank Krygowski |
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Why do some forks and frames have brake rotor size limits?
On Sunday, October 29, 2017 at 8:22:35 AM UTC-7, wrote:
On Friday, October 27, 2017 at 5:11:29 PM UTC-7, John B. wrote: Well, the Blayleys state that the husband, John, has ridden 10 - 17 thousand miles a year for the past 25 years and the wife, Pamela, has ridden from 10 - 14 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years, or another way to put it might be that together they have ridden from 20 - 30 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years. Somehow I suspect that they may have encountered rain in that period. For three years while between jobs I road almost continuously including several long distance tours each year. I barely made 10,000 miles per year and usually only cleared that hurdle with a last minute sprint. So unless the Blayley's are on a continuous tour I would question those miles. Nah, there are people who have no family, no weeknight gig in the local community band, no garage beer-brewing operation, no lawn mowing, no house painting, etc., etc. They get on their bikes and grind-out miles. Usually not races -- but some sort of odd-ball endurance event for the marginally socialized. I'm like you, I rode 10K years when I was racing. I mostly lived in an apartment, and my wife was also racing. No kids. Rode every night after work and both days on the weekend. Hung out with other cyclists. After a while, you say f*** that! I'm going skiing! Or I'm doing something that is not riding. I rode with some of these people on a few rides with a local "touring" club including this one guy who was a bicycle zombie -- you couldn't get him to talk. He just had this crazed 200 yard stare down the road . . . grinding, grinding. Okey-dokey. You have yourself a good ride, there! I'd drop back and talk with the disgruntled divorced guys for a while. A lot of these people did staggering miles. But they weren't my cup of tea. -- Jay Beattie. |
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On Sun, 29 Oct 2017 07:59:34 -0700, Joerg
wrote: On 2017-10-28 17:18, John B. wrote: On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 08:09:28 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-27 17:11, John B. wrote: On Fri, 27 Oct 2017 06:58:27 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-27 01:11, John B. wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2017 07:53:11 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-24 17:21, John B. wrote: On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 11:47:12 -0700, Joerg wrote: On 2017-10-24 07:27, wrote: On Tuesday, October 24, 2017 at 2:19:48 AM UTC-7, John B. wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:09:20 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:48:29 +0700, John B. wrote: On Sun, 22 Oct 2017 20:51:15 -0700, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Mon, 23 Oct 2017 07:02:08 +0700, John B. wrote: But re disc brake cooling F1 car brakes appear to work with the discs red hot. In the 1,000 degree (F) range. And they use Carbon Fiber discs too :-) And everyone knows that CF is better. "Thermal Conductivity of Carbon Fiber, and other Carbon Based Materials" http://www.christinedemerchant.com/carbon_characteristics_heat_conductivity.html "So...Is Carbon Fiber a good heat conductor? As usual the answer is "it depends." The short answer is NO not when regular carbon fiber is made up in regular epoxy and expected to conduct heat across the thickness. IF a highly carbonized pan fiber with graphite or diamond added, is measured for heat transmission in the length of the fiber it is very good and can rival and exceed copper." On the other hand, they seem to work pretty well :-) See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5JcHAEmIYM for a visual indication of heat dissipation. :-) Impressive. I'll assume it's a carbon-carbon rotor, since all F1 cars seem to using them. Undoubtedly so. But if the advantage of "carbon" bikes can be extolled that a carbon-carbon frame must have twice the bragging rights :-) http://www.racecar-engineering.com/technology-explained/f1-2014-explained-brake-systems/ (4 pages) "A typical road car uses a cast iron brake disc with an organic brake pad. In an F1 car, though, the same material is used for both disc and pad, and this material is known as carbon-carbon - a significantly different material to the carbon-fibre composites used in the rest of the car" In other words, the F1 brakes are NOT made from CF. Some detail on Formula 1 brakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev6XTdlKElw Fun destroying brakes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KslGsXMgmqg The brake starting at 4:45 sure looks like CF but I'm not sure. Maybe twin disk brakes would be easier? http://nuovafaor.it//public/prodotto/75/nccrop/DOPPIO_FRENO_CROSS_ENDURO.jpg https://i.ytimg.com/vi/Pvwj-WWlKkg/maxresdefault.jpg https://gzmyu4ma9b-flywheel.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Gatorbrake-dual-hydraulic-front-disc-brakes-carbon-rotors01.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-cDfAFWrGR6Q/VHKPsm-f6YI/AAAAAAAAX10/2FCyj87xs0g/s640/14%2520-%25201.jpg https://www.minibikecraze.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/bs0978.jpg https://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=56268 Given the coefficient of friction between a 1.25" wide rubber tire (32mm) and a wet road probably dragging the feet will work. :-) Joerg's experience is with full suspension MTB's. These things are incredibly heavy and long wheelbased. He has his judgement of disks and it is no doubt quite accurate for his experience and riding. I have disks on a much lighter and shorter wheelbased bike. I know the failings up close and personal. I simply cannot imagine WHY a person would want a more complicated system than that offered by the Campy Skeleton brakes. The reason can be summed up in one word: Rain :-) But last Sunday I started out my "weekend" ride in the rain. It had been raining nearly all night and the roads had a lot of water on them - note we have been having floods here in Bangkok lately - but it appeared that the rain was ending so off I went. Unfortunately my weather forecasting facility wasn't working very well and I rode 20 Km of a 30 Km ride in light rain and flooded roads in many places. I was splashing through water in some places and cars were splashing through (and splashing me) in others. Of course, Sunday is much lighter traffic then on work days but still, Bangkok is rated as one of the cities with the most chaotic traffic in the world, and I did have to stop suddenly several time, on flooded roads with wet wheels and brakes. My brakes worked just as they do in the dry. Back brake stops me somewhat slowly and front brake stops rather suddenly, both brakes together provides best stopping. No long wait after grabbing a brake lever although I did think of you with your stopping problems and I have the feeling that the brake lever pressure might be a tiny bit more to stop in the rain but if it was it was so little that it couldn't be quantified. But of course I am using quality brake pads. Why it costs me US$12.12 a wheel just for pads alone.... but they do last a year or more. It seems Californian rain and Thai rain aren't the same. When it rains heavily and I have to do a surprise emergency stop after not having used the brakes for a while there is 1-2sec of nada, absolutely nothing. It makes no difference whatsoever whether I use $17 high-falutin Koolstop rain-rated pads or $4 Clarks pads. The experience of other riders around here and in this NG is similar. Which, to be honest, I find a little mystifying as I've had pretty constant success with conventional brakes. Frankly, I can't believe this is solely because I'm somehow so uniquely skilled or that y'all are all in the awkward squad I do see a number of people here and many who are not here who seem to have ridden for years using conventional brakes without complaint and some of the blogs I read don't even talk about brakes. Dave Moulton, for example. An old fellow, used to race bikes, came to the U.S. in about 1979 and built frames commercially for years, now retired, has one entry in his blog about brakes - "centering side pull brakes". Another blog from the long distance side of the bicycleing world, The Blayleys, who are into Audex's and who apparently each ride in the neighborhood of 10,000 miles annually, mentions Vee brakes in reference to a Tandem while a photo of them on a tandem on their web page shows disc brakes. On the other hand, when she discusses a "good brevet bike she simply says that the "brakes must clear the fenders and probably long reach caliper brakes will suffice". In short, it seems that brakes just don't seem to be a hot subject in much of the cycling fraternity. To a large part that is because most cyclist will not ride in driving rain. Some do and those know exactly how that delay with rim brakes feels. Occasionally it is called "free fall" because that's how it feels like. Well, the Blayleys state that the husband, John, has ridden 10 - 17 thousand miles a year for the past 25 years and the wife, Pamela, has ridden from 10 - 14 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years, or another way to put it might be that together they have ridden from 20 - 30 thousand miles a year for the past 20 years. Somehow I suspect that they may have encountered rain in that period. And grandpa has driven his cars without safety belts yet survived ... Well, since you mentioned it. My two grandfathers, neither of whom ever had a road accident. One died at 92 and the other at 87. My father never had a road accident although he did get a speeding ticket once, died at 87. My mother had one "accident", a guy ran a red light and tee-boned her car, no speeding tickets, died at 86. All deaths were considered "natural". Do you really believe that safety belts would have benefited them? Counting on luck alone is not smart. The father of a friend's wife died from the consequences of a minor fender bender at an intersection because he didn't wear a belt. That accident was 100% survivable. Or would have been ... So one of your friends died in a traffic accident and four of my ancestors never had an accident at all. Thus safety belts are a good idea? -- Cheers, John B. |
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And if you DO try you have cars behind you honking their horns. I'm pretty sure that the last time someone honked at me, I was in New York -- and we moved here in the first year of the new millennium. In Albany County, New York, honking upon seeing a bicycle on a county road was part of the culture. Some of them forgot, and honked *after* passing. Often, one could inhibit the honk by riding in the middle of the lane, then shifting into the right wheel track after conspicuously turning one's head. Honking didn't happen on city streets. -- Joy Beeson joy beeson at comcast dot net http://wlweather.net/PAGEJOY/ |
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