yeah the cluth is on the left, I was thinking that if he had another bike with two brakes, he would have the reversed if he was used to motocycles... but apparently they just ride them like that in the UK... which is respectable
Sick pic man, props to everyone who looks after Woburn's trails. Proper work of art that place, i've watched it evolve from a couple of massive jumps to a minefield of trails and drops over the last 15 years! Awesome place and awesome pic!
I'm sorry but I am getting seriously sick of berm photos. It's a good photo for sure, but how many freaking PODs are going to be of some rider PINNING SOME SICK BERM? Feel me?
Rode this Berm on the pump track today, its SICK as!!! Just need the place to dry out now after all that snow and rain and the track will be mega fast!
no, the english way uses shorter cables, if the back brake is on the left its on the same side as the caliper so the cable does not have to reach from the other end of the handlebar to go around to the other side
cables are very bizarre object and can hold a large amount of fluid while looking like it cant
you should drain your brake and see how much fluid comes out, they weigh alot
haha stryke, i took my Giant MPH 3 hydro disc brake off last night, which is a burly old thing, and it weighs NOTHING. Google the Giant mph brake it is HUGE. I think its fair to say stryke should have kept his mouth shut this time.
gmeister because a cable is long from one end to the other the weight will very spread out making it feel lighter then it is (think a box of pizza holding it underneath and in the center)
the reason downhill bikes are so heavy are the brakes, and nothing else
Ok enough already FFS, tomorrow I'm weighing my bottle of brake fluid (mineral oil not DOT) and posting a picture of the scales here and if I hear another work out of you about it I'm getting the Terri on your arse.
well. a pair of sas wheels weighs abt 2.5 kg. so ur saying that 5 sas wheels wud weigh the same as 100cm of hose? na m8. a pair of full magura hs33's dont even weigh a kg. i dont think ur talkin the same measurment.
if you haven't noticed you are guessing where as i have taken the weights myself on a incredibly accurate scale, you cant guess weights as the dimensions of the product can make the weight feel lighter or heaver it is
yea im from the US wher we dont even use the metric system and i know forsure that my 29 pound hardtails brake cables dont weigh 13.2 lbs when the fork weighs 5.5 lbs....it just doesnt add up im sorry
this is ridiculous, has it crossed your mind that it is your scale which is innacurate, because at the moment every other set of scale seems to be inaccurate compared to yours.
i dont think my white trash fish scale is inaccurate... my dad has been using it since before i was born... it may be a bit old but it sure is accurate and trusty
my scale is not inaccurate and i find it very insulting that you would say such a thing
fish scales are known to be inaccurate for bike products because they're not fish
if they do not then why are they called fish scales and not 'general scales' ? fish scales are made for fish and not bike products and this is the reason you are not getting the real weight of brake cables
Fine, on Sunday I shall take off my brakes and weigh both of them including cables levers and calipers. I bet they still weigh under 6kg. In fact way under.
if u were right then i wudnt call u stupid. lets say... 50 people (i cba to count) think ur wrong. has it ever occured that u might be wrong. shut ur pie hole before i fill it with dirty y-fronts.
you will when you see brake cables actually weigh alot
its very important to run the brakes the english way around as you save alot of weight because you cut more cable
my summum has internal cable routing for derailleur cable and brake cable but its made by euros so the back brake cable comes from the right side rather then the left so it looks rather gay for me
i will admit i am wrong when you prove to me that it brake fluid in a cable weighs 6kg/meter, until then i have weighed it myself (been a weight weenie) and i am correct
well i think seeing as he knows nothing about my sexual preference i think its fighting a solid point with childish insults and hoping one hits me hard
im back for a bit. its getting old now stryke. i dont think anyone cares anymore. everyones brake cables weight different. everyone let it go. whoevers right or wrong, just let it go. nobody here is going to "see the light" and admit they are wrong.
so stop coming back and trying to make up for the fact that you're wrong! and a picture won't do, how do we know that you haven't messed with the scale?
1. the scale is not digital so the results are 99.9% inaccurate up to 5kg 2. the cable is obviously very short 3. how do i know there is fluid in the cable?
even if gmeister is right, nothing is going to be any better. let it go everyone. im now not biased anymore. someone has had their photo comments raided.
like you said, CLAIMED means nothing.. look at clamed weights and real weights, there is usually a big difference between the 2
if avid said their brake weighs 6.5kg with 1meter of cable and formula said it weighs 250g with 1 meter of cable people are going to buy the formula brake
dont fall for marketing, look at real weights (incl. fluid)
ive always found that a meter of cable weighs around 7kgs, maybe because of the fact that i use mineral oil... not sure, but i do wish they wernt so damn heavy.
guys, honestly. let me find a quote from Professor Jakob Anoskey (aka CCK aka lights). ah, here it is. "all thats happended is the (strykes) scale is misreading. see, due to being around 400km south of the large hadron collider, and its position in relation to the center of the earth and the sun, no matter the time of day or year, a magnetic field has been created, so weak that no machine could ever register it, but the sinusoidal wave of this magnetic field is identical to that of the measuring device inside the (stryke's) scale, and causes it to misread. and the Dot fluid inside these brakes has a wave of exactly half, causing it to repel, but earths gravity forces them to stay together. this causes brake lines containing Dot fluid in Marseille, France to be horribly inaccurate. sources: Google." dont argue, everyone knows Googles ALWAYS right, and its lights. he'd never lie...
haha i love how stryke is still saying those scales are wrong and saying there is not fluid in those cables when he originally said just 1 meter of cable with fluid not with a caliper and lever