Trail braking? - Page 9

shmike · 06-25-2009, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by The Awesome

I thought the same thing the first time I saw pictures of myself on the brakes. I asked my suspension guy about it and he told me that unused travel is wasted travel. Just make sure that for any given track you don't ever bottom out. If you do, changes need to be made to accommodate.

I guess the logic in leaving a few mm to spare is making sure you don't bottom out. If you can get to full travel on the brakes that leaves no room left to absorb any bumps on corner entry.

Total agreement on all other points. There must be a reason we ran the same number.

shmike · 06-25-2009, 02:07 PM

For those that don't understand the concept of loading the front forks with the brakes and keeping that load while cornering, I found a decent pic of tipping it in.

In a sequence this shot would be about 50-100 feet after Awesome's pic.

As the braking forces fade the lateral forces take over:

Trip · 06-25-2009, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by No Worries

Do you know what a switchback is? Some call it a hairpin turn. You turn 180 degrees, just like a U-turn. Lookout Mountain has at least six switchbacks. You have to brake from 50 to 15mph. And most of them are blind. You don't jam on the brakes like a racer. You squeeze both brakes smoothly before and half-way through the turn.

You could always just come out to the dragon and ride with a ton of us. I know it's crazy, but there is a rumor that switchbacks exist there too. OMG!

Amber Lamps · 06-25-2009, 02:36 PM

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Originally Posted by Trip

You could always just come out to the dragon and ride with a ton of us. I know it's crazy, but there is a rumor that switchbacks exist there too. OMG!

Yea I thought about that too! Maybe he's like Zeus and unable to leave his mountain of power. I swear that Lookout Mountain is the one and only place that No Worries has ever ridden!

Every time I think about that post from CEO I fucking crack up!!!

Trip · 06-25-2009, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by TIGGER

Yea I thought about that too! Maybe he's like Zeus and unable to leave his mountain of power. I swear that Lookout Mountain is the one and only place that No Worries has ever ridden!

Every time I think about that post from CEO I fucking crack up!!!

I can't really say much about that though. The only place I really feel comfortable riding fast besides the track is at the Gap.

Amber Lamps · 06-25-2009, 03:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Trip

I can't really say much about that though. The only place I really feel comfortable riding fast besides the track is at the Gap.

True enough! The only places I've ever thought I was "fast" was Leonard st going to Grand Haven and Grattan Raceway.