slimboyjim

I'm interested in the brakes - excuse the back of a napkin ramblings (and massive over simplification) as I try and work it out! Sorry to nerd out on you all! You have 4 calipers running off of two levers, so surely that halves the pressure at each caliper (and you have to squeeze the lever twice as hard to achieve the same pressure), but then you have twice the braking area which doubles it back to normal? But then the rotor is only going to deal with so much heat? I'm ignoring the tyres in all of this... What are the factors that are most important in all of this and how do you go about working it all out - simple trial and error or something more elegant? What is the purpose of the dual calipers on each wheel - pure braking force, or something else? With a far greater breaking area I could see it being a bit 'grabby', but is this tuned out with, say, adjustment to the pad contact point?