fearing the slow good bye to rim brake bikes
06-17-22, 03:57 PM
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If the question is "quality" rim brakes and components - i better understand now
Was looking for good 26" tubeless compatible mountain bike tires not too long ago --- everyone catalogues a model or 2 - but finding any in stock is a royal pain -- and we are less than 10 years removed from the 26'ers
Was looking for good 26" tubeless compatible mountain bike tires not too long ago --- everyone catalogues a model or 2 - but finding any in stock is a royal pain -- and we are less than 10 years removed from the 26'ers
Mainstream availability of Tubeless goes with the shift in first-line MTBs to the “Big Wheel” era (29/27.5)
Kinda like 1” threadless headsets; “transition era” stuff gets hard to find
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I had a great grandfather who was an engineer for the PRR, till somebody sideswiped his locomotive in a yard accident, tore open a steam pipe, and scalded him. That was 102 years ago.
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06-18-22, 01:39 PM
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06-18-22, 01:43 PM
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06-18-22, 01:58 PM
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Here's a clipping -
I confess, the geometry of the crash escapes me, unless the two were headed for the same switch and the helper was supposed to be waiting for 2133 and didn't.
I confess, the geometry of the crash escapes me, unless the two were headed for the same switch and the helper was supposed to be waiting for 2133 and didn't.
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Best I can tell, 2133 would have been an H6a 2-8-0 freight engine, and would look something like this:
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…I skipped over from the ‘spell-check’ vitriol of page 1 to this page…what a nice turn of events…from rim ‘breaks’ (Mavic Cosmics? 😉
to rim brakes….now to steam locomotives. My grandfather (Jim Dunlap) was an engineer as well for Burlington Northern—“BLF&E” (Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen)…long live his memory.
to rim brakes….now to steam locomotives. My grandfather (Jim Dunlap) was an engineer as well for Burlington Northern—“BLF&E” (Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen)…long live his memory.
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How about those new fangled metal rims, I just dont think they have the flex of a well made wooden rim.
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06-19-22, 07:38 AM
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You should look up the potato truck incident that happened in Durango,Co. during the "80's,I believe. A truck,loaded with potatoes, lost its brakes, and crashed thru the fence @ the railroad and hit the engine being loaded at a coal dock. Fortunately,the engine didn't explode or it would have leveled pretty much half of Durango. I worked with some old timers who were there when it happened and heard it took awhile to get the ****stains out of their bibs..
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I think the concern isnt that rim brakes of any kind will disappear soon, its that rim brakes and connected components which are high quality will disappear soon.
Quality lightweight rim brake rims, quality brake calipers, quality brake levers(STI and dedicated), etc- these leaving the market is what many are concerned about. Posters here are typically enthusiasts and anyone wanting to keep a rim brake bike is almost certainly also someone who does not want generic stamped low end components on their bike.
Quality lightweight rim brake rims, quality brake calipers, quality brake levers(STI and dedicated), etc- these leaving the market is what many are concerned about. Posters here are typically enthusiasts and anyone wanting to keep a rim brake bike is almost certainly also someone who does not want generic stamped low end components on their bike.
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06-19-22, 08:20 AM
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You should look up the potato truck incident that happened in Durango,Co. during the "80's,I believe. A truck,loaded with potatoes, lost its brakes, and crashed thru the fence @ the railroad and hit the engine being loaded at a coal dock. Fortunately,the engine didn't explode or it would have leveled pretty much half of Durango. I worked with some old timers who were there when it happened and heard it took awhile to get the ****stains out of their bibs..
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Agreed….coal and potatoes…not a particularly ‘combustible cocktail’. …and all caused by brake/break failure….so we’ve come full circle…
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I think it’s the boiler and maintaining a pressure. I think something can go wrong with steam engines where the pressure can shoot up and pop the boiler. I think this can lead to a catastrophic explosion.
I only vaguely understand how steam engines work from a model my dad had when I was a kid.
06-19-22, 09:06 AM
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As I sat at a traffic light in my pickup truck, looking over at a fellow cyclist stopped there…and looking at his bike (with rim brakes)…I though of this thread, and the potential for rim brakes going away, and/or their obsolescence because of newfangled disc brakes. And then I thought “Well, the superiority of disc brakes on cars was supposed to replace drum brakes back in the 1970s. But this truck…a 2019 model…has drum brakes (albeit just on the rear). So if that’s any indicator, maybe rim brakes for bicycles won’t completely go away.
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As I sat at a traffic light in my pickup truck, looking over at a fellow cyclist stopped there…and looking at his bike (with rim brakes)…I though of this thread, and the potential for rim brakes going away, and/or their obsolescence because of newfangled disc brakes. And then I thought “Well, the superiority of disc brakes on cars was supposed to replace drum brakes back in the 1970s. But this truck…a 2019 model…has drum brakes (albeit just on the rear). So if that’s any indicator, maybe rim brakes for bicycles won’t completely go away.