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OK, I admit ignorance on this (a dangerous thing to do on RBR...).
VeloNews live Vuelta coverage says, Stage 9: "4:35 p.m. Up front, the lead group has dropped Cardenas on the descent ... he is being extra cautious on the wet road, apparently reasoning that you can't win if you finish in the ambulance. Our man on the scene, Charles Pelkey, notes that he's using carbon rims, which may be a factor." Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Al |
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On 09/12/2004 08:40 AM, in article
, "Al James" wrote: OK, I admit ignorance on this (a dangerous thing to do on RBR...). VeloNews live Vuelta coverage says, Stage 9: "4:35 p.m. Up front, the lead group has dropped Cardenas on the descent ... he is being extra cautious on the wet road, apparently reasoning that you can't win if you finish in the ambulance. Our man on the scene, Charles Pelkey, notes that he's using carbon rims, which may be a factor." Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Slippery rims that brake pads don't grip as well. -- Steven L. Sheffield stevens at veloworks dot com veloworks at worldnet dot ay tea tee dot net bellum pax est libertas servitus est ignoratio vis est ess ay ell tea ell ay kay ee sea eye tee why you ti ay aitch aitch tee tea pea colon [for word] slash [four ward] slash double-you double-yew double-ewe dot veloworks dot com [four word] slash |
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Al James wrote: OK, I admit ignorance on this (a dangerous thing to do on RBR...). VeloNews live Vuelta coverage says, Stage 9: "4:35 p.m. Up front, the lead group has dropped Cardenas on the descent ... he is being extra cautious on the wet road, apparently reasoning that you can't win if you finish in the ambulance. Our man on the scene, Charles Pelkey, notes that he's using carbon rims, which may be a factor." Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Al Less braking on them when wet. -- tanx, Howard "Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." Albert Einstein remove YOUR SHOES to reply, ok? |
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"Steven L. Sheffield" wrote in
: On 09/12/2004 08:40 AM, in article , "Al James" wrote: Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Slippery rims that brake pads don't grip as well. Thank you. Wow, I didn't know carbon had that problem. |
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Al James wrote:
Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Slippery rims that brake pads don't grip as well. Thank you. Wow, I didn't know carbon had that problem. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm....earthlink.net Be sure to click the Alto Velo link within that message. |
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"Robert Chung" wrote in
: Al James wrote: Why would carbon handle less well in the wet than metal rims? Slippery rims that brake pads don't grip as well. Thank you. Wow, I didn't know carbon had that problem. http://groups.google.com/groups?selm...003%40newsread 2.prod.itd.earthlink.net Be sure to click the Alto Velo link within that message. Yowch! Thanks for the graphic demonstration of carbon rim's braking problem... Surprised mfr's don't have a fix for this. You'd think bonding a metal race would be doable. |
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Al James wrote in message . com...
Yowch! Thanks for the graphic demonstration of carbon rim's braking problem... Surprised mfr's don't have a fix for this. You'd think bonding a metal race would be doable. I have no experience with carbon rims other than following and watching the "grabbiness" of braking of riders in front of me with carbon rims but in carbon rims' defense it appears that Bill says in that thread he was not using the correct pads. Zipp and Hed make structural carbon wheels with AL rims but Zipp insists on users buying the Zipp pads still. |
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