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It's an odd choice for a name.

What a great flavour though

sure is

Prawn Cocktail?

Lemon and Scampi. Now there's a flavour.

It's an odd choice for a name.

It sounds like a bowl of sick served in the far right cubical of the ladies toilet at Moshi Moshi.

why does my finger smell so bad ?

Because you failed to get her to suck it after you pulled it out of her butt.

I think you've overthought that one MDMA_tester

my feet hurt

Check your liver.

Is there a particular name for a rim that has the brake surface on the spoke surface of the rim not the sides as normal.

i cant check inside my torso :(

You can get your liver function checked.

Is there a particular name for a rim that has the brake surface on the spoke surface of the rim not the sides as normal.

Whut?

Wash it after poking it up someones backside......

23 minutes too late

Is there a particular name for a rim that has the brake surface on the spoke surface of the rim not the sides as normal.

Westwood
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwood_rim

Whut?

A rod braked bike as the brake surface on the rim is on the inside with the spokes.

Thank you and repped

I've both read and heard a lot of conflicting reports about rim brakes on carbon rims.

The most common thread to it all seems to be that as carbon does not conduct heat well it suffers badly from heat buildup under repeated heavy braking.

i.e. alluminium is a good conductor of heat and radiates it away fairly efficiently, whereas carbon does not conduct it well and therefore the braking surface gets hotter and hotter.

This can lead to the pads getting very grabby as the surface gets tacky, and binds onto the rim under braking.

The ultimate expression of this is your front wheel locking up under braking and a 50mph faceplant.

How much of this is true?

And to what extent can this be mitigated by both technique and pad compound?

don't most of the riders in the tour use carbon rims??

I think so, I also seem to recall one of them hitting the deck in a fairly serious manner- which some blamed on his rims+pads.

It's being used to advance disc brakes cause in road cycling, or so I had heard.

^Lots of half remembered stuff+conjecture

Read reviews of specific rims, they are not all the same. Take note of people's findings about the best pad compound for specific rims too. It's possible (now) to have good brakes with carbon rims, even if it wasn't with the first ones.

Have you thought about carbon rims with an alu braking surface?

Ergo, I'm on my own with my no-name Chinese rims+Swiss Stop yellow's due to lack of reviewage*.

I'll do my own research in that case.

*This is not a word.