disc brakes

[df]

it was one of those things.. I knew i had to wait for the train so I was reading a few mountain bike magazines.. without realising I'd decided to spend money! aaaaaaargh...

gonna add a set of hope M4 disc brakes to my bike and replase the crappy shimano deore disc brakes. (deore ones are 2pot, the hopes are 4pot.. more stopping power, bigger disc ring...)...

mm and now suddenly there is that new rockshox duck XC uturn fork looking goood.... aaaaaaaaaargh..

must control spending.. must... control... spending...

[Kon-Tiki]

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Df, you're the man who can solve a question that's in our family for generations.
My grandfather always said (shortened version):

They can make everything. They can even go to the moon, but a decent bikelight that works, they can't make.

My dad knows the same problem (although he doesn't ride a bike) and my brothers and I know it all too well too.

Now, Df, do you know of anything that proves my family wrong? It would set my mom at ease

-Kon-Tiki-

[df]

get a set of cat eyes.

get a good front + rear, LEDs.

rear

front

[Kon-Tiki]

Ah yeah, tried some similar things. They break when you put it in your schoolbag, along with the kilos books that'll eventually be on top of it.

-Kon-Tiki-

[Andrew_Baker]

Brakes?! That's what shoes are for... right?

[df]

Ah yeah, tried some similar things. They break when you put it in your schoolbag, along with the kilos books that'll eventually be on top of it.

-Kon-Tiki-

uh thats why you attach them to your bike... one on the handle bars, one on the steapost.... clip them off/on as needed so nobody steals them.

[Kon-Tiki]

Yep, that's when they break. When clipped off when they're not used, put in the schoolbag for a day and after a week, when pulling them out of the schoolbag, they're lots of pieces instead of one.

Andrew: For longdistance braking, yep, but for stopping at short distances, they're too slow;)

-Kon-Tiki-

[Andrew_Baker]

Yeh, I need head and tail lights for night driving in Chicago traffic, but my experience has always been that I never make short-distance brakes. I just hop onto the nearest curb or zoom between parked cars so that the big, heavy boxes full of stupid, lazy people can't hit me... well in advance of the potential mauling at their bumpers. And yes, the only time I ever got hit by a car while biking was when I actually used brakes.

Stupid cars.