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Victory through semantics ! :)

what has being jewish got to do with where you position the brake?

Lewis from Lewes err isnt the brake behind because there isnt enough clearence for it if it was mounted in front..........
as a note all the TT bikes ive ever worked on have always had front brakes, and shit the bed they have always been on the front!??!?!!!!

.. what shop do you work in ?! just out of interest ?

big daddy wayne Victory through semantics ! :)

what has being jewish got to do with where you position the brake?

It is written as god's law in the Torah, all jews must place the break just below the tip of the foreskin.

(I will be here all week)

tynan

It is written as god's law in the Torah, all jews must place the break just below the tip of the foreskin.

(I will be here all week)

You should totally frame this. :D

Someone posted a Gangster!
Platform pedals and no brakes! :|

I don't read FGG that often anymore so it may have happened already.

except:


I is confused!

OMG today's FGG is on fire!

Frame mounted brake FTL

tallsam OMG today's FGG is on fire!

Frame mounted brake FTL

That's ridiculous.

hippy It's more aero to hide the brake calipers behind the forks.. although in this case the vee noodle and cable lose him those 13 hundredths of a second all over again. :)

Here are the actual calipers which are designed for this..
http://www.performancelabshc.com/pages.php?id=120

*Aero Brakes
Introducing the A700 Aero Brake Calipers.

Oval Concepts now produce a brake caliper that is mountable BEHIND the front fork and even the rear chainstays to make your TT bike even more aerodynamic. Its reduces frontal drag but making the calipers almost invisible to the frontal wind.

The calipers fit behind most forks but be careful with conflicts with frame downtube and shifter cable bosses and has been tested by the former Liberty Seguros team for the past 2 seasons.

After spending sometime in the windtunnel we know that these calipers will make for a more aerodynamic bike, and should reduce your TT times. I know a few peoples bikes these will be appearing on for 2007.... think Rainbows.

For more information go to Oval's website http://www.ovalconcepts.com *

I reckon the clamp stand loses him more than that.

hippy

Here are the actual calipers which are designed for this..
http://www.performancelabshc.com/pages.php?id=120

...which is the actual caliper this chap has got. Look closely and you can see the oval logo

Good set up for a TT bike but a bit weird for a commuter.

Yeah, I know, that's why I posted them. I forgot a comma:
"Here are the actual calipers which are designed for this.." should be "Here are the actual calipers, which are designed for this.."

Copper pipe for bars? Are these guys thick or is it really that hard to get minimum wage in the US?

Minimum wage in the US isn't worth anything, it hasn't been updated for ages and doesn't rise with inflation.

And if you just want a chopped bars and to ride brakeless, is there any reason why a copper pipe wouldn't do the job?

velocity boy Minimum wage in the US isn't worth anything, it hasn't been updated for ages and doesn't rise with inflation.

Sounds just like working at this dump..... (Brett will vouch for me)

Adding to the Bianchi Pista brake debate, he's probably only done it 'cos he's seen the pro's do it.

My 2p.

Maybe he is trying to hide it and pretending to ride brakeless!

Hence the 'No Brakes' sticker.

He definatley had me fooled !

Last time I saw copper pipe it was quite soft/bendy/malleable.
http://www.ukcopperboard.co.uk/whycopper/10goodreasons/10goodreasons_2.shtml key quote here being: "it bends easily".

This isn't the kind of thing I'd want to be hanging onto, especially when brakeless. Perhaps there are tougher varieties? I dunno, I'm not a plumber.

velocity boy
And if you just want a chopped bars and to ride brakeless, is there any reason why a copper pipe wouldn't do the job?

Even a cheap alloy bar is massively more stiff that a copper pipe of the same diameter / wall thickness, it will likely bend under reasonable use. Copper is also very heavy.

Isn't copper also kinda valuable (2p's being worth more than 2p in metal value etc...)

velocity boy [quote]tallsam OMG today's FGG is on fire!

Frame mounted brake FTL

That's ridiculous.[/quote]

i recall our very own SuperTed had a frame mounted brake on an old pug some time ago

the pista's come with that sticker from factory ;)
i think this dude is in nth london, as he raced me up through kentish town/tufnell park. it now has a rear brake and the TT bars removed though.

Scrol down to the yield and ultamiate strength of copper vs Aluminum.

Aluminim 400 Mpa

Copper 70 Mpa

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensile_strength

he bought copper tube from a DIY store and is using it as bars..
he's going to have a rude awakening involving a lesson in malleable metals and some tarmac

i remember a bike on FGG using a nice piece of hickory wood. i imagine that would work quite well.

well if you've got wood you should use it