ogmtb

It makes no sense since a car disc does not have a shield to prevent it from getting hit with water from behind.

Obviously.

Your picture of a shield to protect a brake disc from getting hit by water from behind is actually a picture of a brake dust shield. Thank you for proactively destroying your argument.

MoAlpha

That pista's going to be mighty cold if it takes that long.

acidfast7

Actually, it's not a brake dust shield.

It's formally a brake backing plate (US English) or Splash Shield (UK English) or a Spritzblech Bremsscheibe (Splashsheild Brakedisc) in German.

https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/fo...s/74006/page1/

I think you are incorrect and don't know what you're talking about, but this is BF, so it goes with the territory.

https://www.teileshop.de/products/71...emsscheibe.htm

woodcraft

No nails is romantic, but that floor is nailed or stapled like every other T&G hardwood one. The plugs may have screws, but more likely decorative.

rumrunn6

I'll see if I can take a closer look when he turns his back next time. or I guess that won't help cuz the nails are hidden within the T&G?

ogmtb

woodcraft

Yeah, the fasteners go in at an angle through the tongues- about every 6".

Those plugs are only at the row ends where the flooring changes direction- not much to hold down a floor made up of a bunch of short pieces.

Would be like a wheel with only two spokes.

prj71

And we need to protect the spokes from the rotor because...????

rumrunn6

I may have wrongly assumed. he mentioned the dance floor & the pegs but never actually said no nails. then there was the shots & the stories, so my memory got a little blurry around the edges ...

woodcraft

Hope the shots didn't make the wheel truing wobbly.

rumrunn6

naww, he brought out the stuff after he was done with the hard part

acidfast7

The dingus in the original photo labelled it incorrectly.

When you build and race autoX cars get back to me. Otherwise **** off troll.

ogmtb

One doesn't need to have built and raced autoX cars* to understand that it doesn't make sense" just like a car disc brake not getting hit with water from behind" to put a spoke protector on a fork to prevent water from hitting the disc.

1. If it makes sense, why haven't the manufacturers done just that in the decades that disc brakes have been used on bikes?
2. If it makes sense, why haven't riders clamored for a solution to water hitting the disc from the back side?
3. If it makes sense, why don't the manufacturers, or riders, put a spoke protector on both sides of the rear wheel in order to protect the disc from getting hit with water from the back side?

No protector, the brake continued to work just fine despite getting repeatedly from the backside with water and mud:



* My autoX experience is limited to only a handful of events. If found them to be BORING compared to being on a real track and haven't done one in years. You might want to continue your Google searches of car forums to gain a better understanding of what the backing plates are designed to do. When I began to encounter brake fade issues, what I did was add ducts to channel more air, and water, directly to the rotor. It worked great.

cambiker71

30 years in the motor trade and pretty much everyone here in the UK calls these a stone guard, stops stones getting caught in the brakes you see. Until now, I've never heard them called a splash guard, some are finned to direct air onto the disc (rotor, US English!) to allow cooling and I've occasionally heard them called a brake back plate though. (But technically that's a different thing for drum brakes)

Still totally useless fitted on a bike like that, nice floor though

jlaw

Laminate.....

Home Depot, aisle 15

jlaw

I was at my LBS today and noticed that they have concrete floors.

Should i be concerned?