View Single Post
Old 11-20-19, 04:34 PM
  #20  
caloso
Senior Member
 
caloso's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2002
Location: Sacramento, California, USA
Posts: 40,865

Bikes: Specialized Tarmac, Canyon Exceed, Specialized Transition, Ellsworth Roots, Ridley Excalibur

Mentioned: 68 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2952 Post(s)
Liked 3,106 Times in 1,417 Posts
Originally Posted by jyl
so, with the "best" pads, how is emergency braking in the wet with carbon rims?

Let's say
1 is wet steel rims with dried up old pads - don't brake, swerve!
5 is wet alloy rims with old pads - squeeze for all you're worth and the bike will eventually stop, its just scary
8 is wet alloy rims with salmon koolstops - weak braking for the first wheel revolution and then good braking, enough that you have to modulate to avoid front lockup
10 is wet discs - good braking right away, modulation required

where are wet carbon rims with the best pads?
6.5-7
caloso is offline