Bike porn

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but in the 90s Hope made a twin front disc setup with Pace. Swear I remember seeing pics of it in the bike mags of the time for DH racing. It ran from one pretty normal looking sport lever to two twin piston calipers (XC2 calipers?).

Really if you do your maths/ get your micro-calipers out, you don't need two masters at all. Just one lever, but a larger volume job, say that of the monster Mono6 caliper from a few years ago, and then two mono-mini/mono-moto calipers use that hydro 360 headset thing, then make something so you can attach the two frame side hoses fit to the one out let from the hydro headset. Balancing might be interesting, but TBH there will probably be something ideal in the RS catalogue (almost always is) for flow/pressure reduction, or even a decently controlled bleed session would be fine for the most part.
with that ^^^^ you might be lucky and be able to do it with all off the shelf parts for not a lot of money (£120? with used calipers/lever, new headset thing, and clarks braided hoses).

Talking of trashing hoses, I've been riding hydro discs on all my MTB's for 12yrs+ and I've NEVER bust a hose (and I used to crash plenty), I only use what they come with (mostly Hopes, had one set of hayes and two sets of shimanos, shimano had the poorest quality hose/hydro fittings by far).

It wasn't Hope, It was a company called "The" who made and advertised dual front disk brakes in all the relevant 90s Magazines. From memory they went bust as they were overpriced and underpowered when compared to their rivals (This is not that same as "THE" who make mountain bike and motorcycle protective gear.

Avid BB7 brakes are amazingly powerful when set up properly and to for polo really really make sense. As someone who played in high level competition and broke enough brake set ups to appreciate the ease of quickly fixing a bike court side to get back into a game usually with the wrong bits for the job, I'd recommend you listed to Rik as fixing a cable is far easier than fixing a hose and I've definitely had incidents whilst playing which would have left me riding a borrowed bike rather than fixing my own and getting back on court on the bike that I was used to.

That said, I'm a bit of a geek and did look into building a dual hydro set up, more out of curiosity than anything else. I discounted using motor bike levers as they're too damned heavy and the lever blades tend to be far longer than I'd like.

This looked interesting but never made it past the design phase as far as I'm aware.
The lever works on two planes so pulling it like a normal lever operates one brake and pushing the lever down (90 degrees relative to the normal action of a brake lever) works the other separate Master cylinder. My concern with something like this would be using is efficiently whilst throwing the bike the bike around during a polo game. Theory say's it should work but I think that in practise it would be a little awkward.

Although I never wrote off the idea as unworkable, I did stop playing polo and naturally stopped thinking about ways to make this work. That said, I still believe that it's feasible and provided you do enough research into Master vs slave piston diameters, take into account the volume of fluid you wish to move and accept that you're probably going to have to set the pads closer to the disk than ideal (meaning brake drag when you bend your rotors) and work out a sensible hose routing with good braided cables and you're onto a workable system which should be durable though it's the times it does go wrong that you need to really worry about.

If you travel a lot for polo I'd stick to cables, if you just want to do it for fun then start researching hydraulic brakes in general and in particular I'd personally pay attention to trials riders set ups as they really know about brakes. I'd advise thinking about what makes a brake good for polo versus other cycling disciplines standard requirements, you want the brakes to bite well but could sacrifice some hold, would you wish both brakes to bite equally, is hold more important in the rear or the front or not an issue at all.

I'm going to shut up now.

yeh its not particulary special. only thing that makes it different is the 24 carte gold paint on it.

Now I look closer, he does kind of have a 'little boy lost' expression going that makes me want to hold him and assure him that everything's going to be alright.

^^ Thanks for the input. I quite like the idea of being able to squeeze front/back or both

For the ghetto version look at one handed mountain bike setups, which usually have all shifters and two separate lever on one side of the bar.

http://www.mtb-amputee.com/images/NewBike002.jpg

With the right lever combination you could easily get the set up so you can pull either two levers at the same time or pull one lever on it's own. Decided which brake you'd prefer to operate on it's own and set that up closet to the end of the bar so you can operate it with your middle finger, set the other lever slightly inboard so if you use your index finger you pull both levers at the same time.

Before the advent of dual cable levers many people ran their dual brakes with that style of set up.

^^ yeh not the kind of person i would like to look after my bike costing that much. I would say if a yob/hoodie thief came up and sais "give me the bike" he would.

Sexy as F#';k

That's a wicked image. Any idea where it came from?

That's a wicked image. Any idea where it came from?

Sorry mine?

It's funny, the more Bishop bikes I see, the more I appreciate their workmanship, but at the same time the more I dislike the look of them.

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6135/5973908227_7b134d933c_z.jpg
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6025/5973903439_6c7e22b6a7_z.jpg
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Nice! Seriously sweet finds.

...every one of my posts on this page...

Lush.

http://cdn.mos.bikeradar.com/images/news/2010/09/21/1285078199208-12nzy8j3ix9q4-800-75.jpg
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Appols if repost

The last image. Oddest looking set up (fork) ive seen. Im actually liking it tho.

Porn?

Sexy as F#';k

That's a wicked image. Any idea where it came from?

wrong context of mine. Think gold bike is porn? ok i guess (like the gold) but not really special.

The bike, the most expensive in Britain, is too expensive to be insured - so it comes with its own personal body guard.

The bicycle, which has a 24ct gold-framed machine and is custom-made, has been commissioned by the Environmental Transport Association (ETA), an insurance provider.

Not only is it environmentally-friendly to cycle but the money also goes to ETA, a non-profit organisation who campaigns for sustainable transport.

The bike started from a Charge Plug, a model that common London cycle couriers have, which starts at some £399.
It was then stripped, polished, plated in copper and then finished in 24ct gold.

That is also not the most expensive bike in england...

The bike, the most expensive in Britain, is too expensive to be insured

I doubt that

The bicycle, which has a 24ct gold-framed machine...Not only is it environmentally-friendly to cycle...

So I does cycling cancel out the huge amount of environmental damage that Gold cyanidation does? Some one should probably tell the all those people that have found their water supply to be deadly...

The bike started from a Charge Plug, a model that common London cycle couriers have

Oh rly?

I no right. I copied info above from telegraph article. :(

fail thread is that way >>>>>>>>>>>

No Greenracer nothing to do with the telegraph article. Firstly it's a repost many times over. Not the biggest crime in the world and many of the finest on here have been known to repost on occasion but if it's a shit bike it's more likely to attract ire. Secondly it isn't a very nice bike. Porn is subjective, beauty being in the eye of the beholder and all that, but also bikes need to be functional and most bikes in here are here on a combination of looks and function.

That gold charge is an exercise in posing writ large. Take a perfectly uninspiring bike, spend alot of time effort and money on it for no other purpose than to show off.

The world would be better off if someone just bought a charge and gave the rest to charity.

[QUOTE=ewanmac;2307160]No Greenracer nothing to do with the telegraph article. Firstly it's a repost many times over. Not the biggest crime in the world and many of the finest on here have been known to repost on occasion but if it's a shit bike it's more likely to attract ire. QUOTE]

sorry for repost.

qwe

The bike, the most expensive in Britain

p.s. It's not especially hard to spend £10,000 on a bike, this one despite not being especially porn-worthy is probably coming close and thats with only a couple of minutes spent looking on Tritalk.

More of a geek post than a porn post, but I thought it was interesting.

http://fairwheelbikes.com/cycling-blog/updates-and-news/enve-production-facility-tour-2.html

Oh and here's some more info on the Fairwheels bike: http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/photos/fairwheel-bikes-creates-stunning-sequential-shifting-di2-equipped-hardtail

That Fairwheels Titus is amazing. 16lb?! I think I'd have to change the saddle, but for less rocky/rooty XC race courses, it looks ideal. That 'smart' Di2 shifter is something I would definitely buy for my offroad bikes (if I had the money!)

Their blog is pretty good... I found this, which I'm sure was posted, but I can't find it anywhere now... still it's nice to read it again.

New carbon Intense:

top riding all around, but unbelievable riding by this 15 year old kid.
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/208275/

RE: the Intense

full carbon big travel is the new thing. for what it's worth, the new Trek seems sick
http://www.pinkbike.com/video/206409/