uci suspends disc brakes for road racing
05-03-16, 10:56 AM
#328
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I think your point here is that most of the tech advances of the past five decades have not made bikes faster or perform better (not limited to braking,) but I am not sure that this is at all true. A really good rider on a given bike is going to be a really good rider. On a much lighter, more aero bike with stickier tires and brakes, lighter, more aero wheels, said rider is going to perform better.
05-03-16, 10:58 AM
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As impartial as the pro cyclist who thought discs were going to cause injuries and who blamed not only his but another cyclist's injury on discs (the latter claim being clearly proved false and the former being at least questionable).
05-03-16, 11:03 AM
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Brakes are for fakes, yo.
05-03-16, 11:03 AM
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05-03-16, 11:09 AM
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Someone needs to make a video where they chuck, with force, a pot roast into a spinning disc rotor and see if it cuts. Every other test I've seen is someone's hand or a sausage (GCN) lightly resting on the spinning rotor. That's not the way I would do that test. Slam the thing into the rotor like it would happen during a race and see what the outcome is.
05-03-16, 11:09 AM
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05-03-16, 11:15 AM
#336
Pitiful really including all the denial here that disk brakes increase risk to rider safer. Shameful that the poor judgement of a few that don't have the talent to get in the arena and compete put those with the talent to do so in further harm's way. The boycott will occur before or after a rider is badly hacked in a pile up.
There are people on the 41 that believe sharp hood ornaments on automobiles should be brought back...lol.
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05-03-16, 11:26 AM
#337
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Someone needs to make a video where they chuck, with force, a pot roast into a spinning disc rotor and see if it cuts. Every other test I've seen is someone's hand or a sausage (GCN) lightly resting on the spinning rotor. That's not the way I would do that test. Slam the thing into the rotor like it would happen during a race and see what the outcome is.
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05-03-16, 12:19 PM
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I know a lot of people say the manufacturers introduced a gear a year to sell more product, and I think this is true ... but in general more gears offers a significant performance upgrade for racers. In fact, I'd say added gears could have been introduced more quickly, and racers in fact got less performance increase than they could have, because manufacturers wanted to dole out a gear a year---opposite of discs, where the performance increase is negligible or nonexistent at the pro level.
If it had been a gear a year... we'd now have 50 speed rear-ends.
Some riders may want more, but they've been talking about 12 speed bikes for quite some time (not the old 12 speeds), but so far it hasn't been adopted by the big brands.
Maybe they can get a former winner to denounce the race. Nibali/Froome? Again, other riders might be happy if the field was cleared.
It may well increase the safety of the events by decreasing the number of participants.
My guess is there will be a push for safety. And, then this will all blow over soon.
Could bicycles be made safer?
Absolutely.
Will they get the pro riders to ride them?
