To kick off Reality Redesigned's final video series for this season, Jeremy Bout explains what
The GAUNTLET is all about!
The GAUNTLET: To win the
GRAND prize, each of the top 9
Reality Redesigned contestants come face to face with our 7 Judges in this video series. Congrats to Hayden, designer of the HM-12. His design qualified for the top 9 and he's the first contestant to go down The GAUNTLET. Let's see what the Judges have to say about his design!
HM-12 DESCRIPTION: The HM-12 is a component for hydraulic braking systems that allows the rider to operate both the front and rear brakes with only one brake lever.
A new design from Straitline Components was featured in Edge Factor's film "Gnarly Metal" with Pro Riders Mike Montgomery and Casey Groves. This film is what inspired Reality Redesigned Season One, almost a year ago!
I know what you're saying bud but at the end of the day, the dollar drives the economy and in this case the companies R&D priorities. I mean no disrespect to my mountain bike brethren who may not have full body functionality but your demographic is realistically a tiny one with huge costs in an industry already plagued by the same trait.
I'm all for the development of these things for those less fortunate than the rest of us but it's a little unfair to criticise businesses for merely catering to their customer base.
Larger brake for the rear, smaller for the front.
Code for the rear (203mm rotor), ultimate for the front (140mm rotor). Run the rear with a larger hose and better pads if needs must.
You can't put the rear on by itself but should work.
So if the designer here can manufacture these at a reasonable price, that price would be what seperates this from the rest, and makes it stand out
I know what you're saying bud but at the end of the day, the dollar drives the economy and in this case the companies R&D priorities. I mean no disrespect to my mountain bike brethren who may not have full body functionality but your demographic is realistically a tiny one with huge costs in an industry already plagued by the same trait.
I'm all for the development of these things for those less fortunate than the rest of us but it's a little unfair to criticise businesses for merely catering to their customer base.
The guys from Straitline Components are machinists though, they have lots of experience in the industry. And Josh Coaplen from Cane Creek ( a judge for the suspension category ) is an engineer, couldn't tell you what area he specialize in but pretty sure he is an engineer.
I am not saying this is a great idea. I don't think it is that interesting except on a commuter bike for people who lost their hand in a freak toaster incident. I just don't buy their knit picking excuses for why they can't make it.
On gravel I liked a lot more tail happy set up but then i tended to left foot brake to get the car sideways into the corner to scrub speed off, wheras on tarmac I prefered almost all the effort to be on the front doing almost all of my braking on the straight to bleed the speed off before the corner and keeping it nice and smooth.
Ideally for me a simple lever would have been best to flick between the two settings on a mixed surface stage but these were prohibitively expensive. I still ended up running a third master cylinder with a stonking great vertical lever next to the gear lever for the rear brakes as well for really getting the @rse swinging round on a tight hairpin.
Can't see the point on a bike bar for a disabled rider but nice to see some thought going into it, I prefer to control my brakes independantly.
auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-parts/brakes/brake-types/master-brake2.htm
A gauntlet is an armoured glove extending up the forearm. Has been for the best part of a thousand years.
www.trialtech.co.uk/product.php?product_id=89
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I can't see a conventional application where it would be an advantage. A motor car can afford the luxury because it has the size/strength and most importantly power to accommodate a computer which can effectively control the braking distribution, not to mention, that specific application is gifted in the sense it doesn't need finite wheel control like a bike (pedal or motor powered).
Without a computer to control and monitor everything it would be totally ineffective. That kind of technology on its own is expensive and cumbersome, let alone trying to apply it to a casual user product.
Controlling the brakes independently is integral to bike handling and safety. I would almost go as far to say that until you can engineer electronically controlled ABS onto a bike, individual control will reign superior by a long shot.
nb: this is specifically aimed at the able-bodied crowd. It's another kettle of fish otherwise.
Are you mentally ill? Surely this is a design for people who are not capable of using two brakes?
And why would you talk about something outside of the product's intended demographic? Of course it's not a great product for you specifically but that's because it wasn't designed to accommodate your needs but instead like hexhamstu said someone not capable of using two brakes.
+1 on beneathmiskin1's wheelchair reference