Square Wheels Posted June 30, 2022 Share #1 Posted June 30, 2022 These are my front and rear brake pads. This is it, there is nothing else to stop me. Yikes 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Kirby Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share #3 Posted June 30, 2022 Can you add streamers? 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted June 30, 2022 Share #4 Posted June 30, 2022 I try not to think about that....and as a younger lad, I never did. I am hoping to bring my bike on a trip this summer, where I've laid out a loop I hope to ride. But it would start with a 1.6-mile descent at about 8% that includes two 90-degree turns and I feel like I'm getting cold feet. Maybe I'm getting too old for that. Strange to think that I might be more comfortable with the idea of riding up this thing than down. (no worries; I'd basically ride back up the same mountain 5 miles downstream... best of both worlds?) Anyway, thinking about the tiny (tinier?) contact patches offered by my rim brakes isn't helping. Nor does the combined 275-pound weight of bicycle and rider. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsharr ★ Posted June 30, 2022 Share #5 Posted June 30, 2022 You could unclip and drag your feet maybe 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted June 30, 2022 Share #6 Posted June 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, jsharr said: You could unclip and drag your feet maybe A stick in the front spokes would work faster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Airehead Posted June 30, 2022 Share #7 Posted June 30, 2022 You have faith in the universe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddmaxx ★ Posted June 30, 2022 Share #8 Posted June 30, 2022 Unclip and drag your foot on the front tire. For me, "that moment" came when changing the tube on a flat tire and finding the tire bead melted to the rim. Disc brakes forever after that. The idea of blowing a tube at 40 mph on a long downhill was scary. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prophet Zacharia Posted June 30, 2022 Share #9 Posted June 30, 2022 13 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said: Strange to think that I might be more comfortable with the idea of riding up this thing than down. I rode Alpe d’huez twice, the descent with switchbacks and cars was more scary than the climb. The climb was hard, but the descent hairy. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post jsharr ★ Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share #10 Posted June 30, 2022 7 minutes ago, BR46 said: A stick in the front spokes would work faster CINZANO!!!! 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted June 30, 2022 Share #11 Posted June 30, 2022 9 minutes ago, jsharr said: CINZANO!!!! I had the same thought! (we all watched BA last weekend... the kids really enjoyed it) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution Popular Post ChrisL Posted June 30, 2022 Solution Popular Post Share #12 Posted June 30, 2022 The pads are just one piece of a braking system though. If you think about it, there are a number of things that could go wrong, a loose anchor bolt, bubbles in the lines, overheating & boiling the fluid. I mean the pads are just one of many potential causes of death on the bike. 3 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Gump Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share #13 Posted June 30, 2022 41 minutes ago, TrentonMakes said: I try not to think about that....and as a younger lad, I never did. I am hoping to bring my bike on a trip this summer, where I've laid out a loop I hope to ride. But it would start with a 1.6-mile descent at about 8% that includes two 90-degree turns and I feel like I'm getting cold feet. Maybe I'm getting too old for that. Strange to think that I might be more comfortable with the idea of riding up this thing than down. (no worries; I'd basically ride back up the same mountain 5 miles downstream... best of both worlds?) Anyway, thinking about the tiny (tinier?) contact patches offered by my rim brakes isn't helping. Nor does the combined 275-pound weight of bicycle and rider. When we rode in Nova Scotia we had a long, steep, winding decent. Unfortunately the pavement had some real rough section so you couldn’t just go. I overheated the breaks and flatted the rear tire at about 35 mph. Fortunately i was able to unclip one foot and locked down the rear brake and slid to a stop. Ruined the tire but at Least I didn’t hit the deck. Gumpette was in tears cause she thougjt I was a goner. 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sheep_herder ★ Posted June 30, 2022 Share #14 Posted June 30, 2022 I was going to ask SW how many years he rode with rim brakes. I am old enough now, that I doubt I will ever ride disc brakes. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisL Posted June 30, 2022 Share #15 Posted June 30, 2022 28 minutes ago, sheep_herder said: I was going to ask SW how many years he rode with rim brakes. I am old enough now, that I doubt I will ever ride disc brakes. You & Page Turner will forever be on rim brakes! I was going down a steep descent just the other day that has a lot of tree root bumps and had four fingers wrapped on the bar, index finger on the brakes. In that moment I actually thought of Page Turner and thought yeah he can kiss my arse, I’m loving my disc brakes right about now! 😂 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share #16 Posted June 30, 2022 1 hour ago, Square Wheels said: These are my front and rear brake pads. This is it, there is nothing else to stop me. Oh for goodness sake! You'd think with as much as you paid for your car, they'd give you some real brake pads instead something off a damn bicycle! 2 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Wilbur ★ Posted June 30, 2022 Popular Post Share #17 Posted June 30, 2022 Why are you guys talking about brakes? I assumed he meant the wedding band! 4 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Square Wheels Posted June 30, 2022 Author Share #18 Posted June 30, 2022 3 hours ago, ChrisL said: The pads are just one piece of a braking system though. If you think about it, there are a number of things that could go wrong, a loose anchor bolt, bubbles in the lines, overheating & boiling the fluid. I mean the pads are just one of many potential causes of death on the bike. I'll never ride again. 1 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted June 30, 2022 Share #19 Posted June 30, 2022 3 hours ago, maddmaxx said: Unclip and drag your foot on the front tire. For me, "that moment" came when changing the tube on a flat tire and finding the tire bead melted to the rim. Disc brakes forever after that. The idea of blowing a tube at 40 mph on a long downhill was scary. I had a frankenbike as a kid, based on an English 3 speed, the only brake was my foot on the front tire. I ran a hilly paper route with that bike for a summer. I’m clever but not very smart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thaddeus Kosciuszko Posted July 1, 2022 Popular Post Share #20 Posted July 1, 2022 2 hours ago, Square Wheels said: I'll never ride again. Look, here's something to put your mind at ease. The contact area of those brake pads is probably about four times as big as the contact area of your tires on the road. See? Doesn't that make you feel a lot better about the brake pads now? 2 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Further Posted July 1, 2022 Share #21 Posted July 1, 2022 I was blown away by how much better disk brakes are compared to rim brakes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrentonMakes Posted July 1, 2022 Share #22 Posted July 1, 2022 "Nooooooooooooooo!!!!!" 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted July 1, 2022 Share #23 Posted July 1, 2022 15 hours ago, ChrisL said: The pads are just one piece of a braking system though. If you think about it, there are a number of things that could go wrong, a loose anchor bolt, bubbles in the lines, overheating & boiling the fluid. I mean the pads are just one of many potential causes of death on the bike. My dad hates flying. His buddy told him once that it is perfectly safe. You're strapped to two large containers of kerosene in something as thin as an aluminum can doing 700 mph with two huge fireballs on either side of you. What could go wrong? 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parr8hed Posted July 1, 2022 Share #24 Posted July 1, 2022 9 hours ago, Thaddeus Kosciuszko said: Look, here's something to put your mind at ease. The contact area of those brake pads is probably about four times as big as the contact area of your tires on the road. See? Doesn't that make you feel a lot better about the brake pads now? I would be curious to see a breakdown on braking surface area on my truck VS that of a rim brake on a bike. I would bet that the bike has more surface area per pound. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BR46 Posted July 1, 2022 Share #25 Posted July 1, 2022 3 minutes ago, Parr8hed said: I would be curious to see a breakdown on braking surface area on my truck VS that of a rim brake on a bike. I would bet that the bike has more surface area per pound. I was thinking about the same thing but compared to a fully loaded 80,000 pound semi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralphie ★ Posted July 1, 2022 Share #26 Posted July 1, 2022 Lots of good thoughts here to make sw feel better aboot this. Good work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MickinMD ★ Posted July 1, 2022 Share #27 Posted July 1, 2022 17 hours ago, Square Wheels said: These are my front and rear brake pads. This is it, there is nothing else to stop me. Yikes They look fine to me considering that when I had my Honda Fit's brake pads replaced, my former-auto-mechanic BiL asked to see the removed pads to make sure they had replaced them all. They didn't look very big to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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