Keep your disks away from me
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Not so far
Won't the grinding between the pad and the rotor will, over time, turn a dull edge on the rotor into a sharp edge?
Imagine the rotor is a metal butter knife, and the brake pad is a sharpening stone.
Overtime with alot grinding, even the butter knife will become a katana.
Imagine the rotor is a metal butter knife, and the brake pad is a sharpening stone.
Overtime with alot grinding, even the butter knife will become a katana.
Crash
Injury
I can't explain it, so it must have been discs, even though I can't prove anything
In the meantime, I don't race and I *love* the stopping power, wet or dry.
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Won't the grinding between the pad and the rotor will, over time, turn a dull edge on the rotor into a sharp edge?
Imagine the rotor is a metal butter knife, and the brake pad is a sharpening stone.
Overtime with alot grinding, even the butter knife will become a katana.
Imagine the rotor is a metal butter knife, and the brake pad is a sharpening stone.
Overtime with alot grinding, even the butter knife will become a katana.
Knife edges meet at an angle. Brake pads are parallel to each other.
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Or, for that matter, go to a 1x system.
And, if you put on a 1xIGH system, then you can add a full wrap-around chain guard.
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I'm trying to figure out if disc brakes are a political party or a religion. We have a guy who was in an accident, was hit on his right by the left side of a disc equipped bike, has a huge gash in his calf (with pictures), saw the blood covered rotor, and all of the sudden the internet is full of people saying it didn't really happen because " my new bike has discs and I like them"... I own a chainsaw but I'm not making comments on the internet minimising others chain saw injuries...
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I'm trying to figure out if disc brakes are a political party or a religion. We have a guy who was in an accident, was hit on his right by the left side of a disc equipped bike, has a huge gash in his calf (with pictures), saw the blood covered rotor, and all of the sudden the internet is full of people saying it didn't really happen because " my new bike has discs and I like them"... I own a chainsaw but I'm not making comments on the internet minimising others chain saw injuries...
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I'm trying to figure out if disc brakes are a political party or a religion. We have a guy who was in an accident, was hit on his right by the left side of a disc equipped bike, has a huge gash in his calf (with pictures), saw the blood covered rotor, and all of the sudden the internet is full of people saying it didn't really happen because " my new bike has discs and I like them"... I own a chainsaw but I'm not making comments on the internet minimising others chain saw injuries...
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I thought that the rider in the OP looked familiar - he's the guy that Phil Gaimon clowned in a video -
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I'm trying to figure out if disc brakes are a political party or a religion. We have a guy who was in an accident, was hit on his right by the left side of a disc equipped bike, has a huge gash in his calf (with pictures), saw the blood covered rotor, and all of the sudden the internet is full of people saying it didn't really happen because " my new bike has discs and I like them"... I own a chainsaw but I'm not making comments on the internet minimising others chain saw injuries...
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Heh, heh...
If you choose to watch, you can see an orange spared by the discs, but mutilated by the real threat, the front crank. You know, that sharp jagged object that protrudes below the frame but, for some strange reason, has never caused any sort of injury, but dull recessed discs that only appear on some bikes are the culprit.
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If I had a choice, I think I would rather be sliced by a disc rotor than sprocketed, especially with a chain-ring that was used in conjunction with hideously carcinogenic chain-lube.
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From the Cyclingtips site where I read it, quoting from the riders twitter response "It's my right leg,was a right turn, rider flew up on the inside just before entry, he ripped the front brake, slid into me with speed. When I got up I saw his rear rotor and my shoe completely soaked in my blood, nothing else could have cut so clean and 4cm deep."
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I ride disc bikes but don't ride with others and don't race, so I only come at this from a curiosity perspective, but the youtube stuff I've seen hasn't really tested it like it should be tested.
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That's the pattern
From the Cyclingtips site where I read it, quoting from the riders twitter response "It's my right leg,was a right turn, rider flew up on the inside just before entry, he ripped the front brake, slid into me with speed. When I got up I saw his rear rotor and my shoe completely soaked in my blood, nothing else could have cut so clean and 4cm deep."
Except a lot of things, like the crank or rear cluster, I guess. Still not buying it.
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From the Cyclingtips site where I read it, quoting from the riders twitter response "It's my right leg,was a right turn, rider flew up on the inside just before entry, he ripped the front brake, slid into me with speed. When I got up I saw his rear rotor and my shoe completely soaked in my blood, nothing else could have cut so clean and 4cm deep."
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