Tips on braking link

[Tynan]

Been a googling about for bit and bobs and found this a useful read, nothing earth shattering but thorough and well written I though

and get the very final tip, yikes

http://www.bicyclesource.com/tips_for_braking_on_roads

apologies for those been there seen that done it

 

[Steve Austin]

 

[mr Mag00]

i hardly ever use my front brake on the road is that wrong?

 

[Tynan]

depends how fast you need to stop I suggest, the back is good for locking the back wheel in my experience, not a great deal else in a need to stop really nowish moment

I rather liked that site for all sorts of things, seemed to be pitched to my level of not a complete idiot

Going to be tackling the Seven Sisters Hill tomorrow on their advice, I get up it in good form but always have nothing left at the top, it is a bugger of a hill though, starts slow, gets fairly steep and then steepens at the end and a gentle uphill for a long while after that

 

[fossyant]

I like the "melt" into the tarmac with the twist your bars thing - hmmm more like slam you into it !

 

[Tynan]

deedy

the writer is disarmingly blase about wrecks isn't he?

it worked for me

 

[yenrod]

On a bike your eyes are the 1st brake: the actual brake is in your hands...

 

[andy_wrx]

I'd agree with some of it, but pulling-on the brakes every 30sec or so when riding in the rain to keep the brakes dry ? Maybe something done on steel rims in the 70s...

AASHTA
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html

 

[Tynan]

absolutely yenrod but sometimes it just happens surely and pushing it a bit in traffic means increased risk

and a car waiting to pull out can do so at any moment, eye contact/road position/highviz/lights notwithstanding

he doesn't say pull on the brakes, he's says clear the rims of water, I do that, if nothing else you can judge what sort of stopping power you can expect, as the author says, no-one has the same stopping power in the wet as the dry surely?

 

[Tynan]

ooo, and some tips on audaxing

http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=7972c58ce670a76c2c1b143b5daf9483&topic=17443.0

 

[Dave5N]

ooo, and some tips on audaxing

http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/index.php?PHPSESSID=7972c58ce670a76c2c1b143b5daf9483&topic=17443.0

Dull

 

[Tynan]

I thought it was amusing, so sorry to have traumatised you

 

[domtyler]

i hardly ever use my front brake on the road is that wrong?

Hmm, I only ever use my front, never the back or at least only rarely.