-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:53:43AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > > Its actually wrong also for bicycles. If you skid it takes a much > > longer time to stop. Another thing a lot of casual cyclists don't > > know is that you actually should stop mostly with the front brake > > (which is much much more effective). You just need to make sure to > > hold yourself in place with your hands not to go over the handlebar. > > You do that and you won't flip. > > Maybe you should take that opinion to alt.mountain-bike. When you have > a good bike with strong brakes, you won't just throw yourself over the > handlebars; you'll flip the whole damn bike, especially when you're > going downhill.
Oh, I missed that the first time...got lost trying to find context in the poor quoting. That's hilarious! I ride pretty often, and I almost never use my front brake. Only if it's raining do I move to the front brake, and even then, I don't go more than 50/50 front/back. Go ahead and do an e-stop on only your front brake. Let me know how much farther you go than the bike. Hint: How do you think the guy launched himself off the mountain bike in that chocolate milk commercial? > That being said, skidding is a bad idea while mountain biking for two > reasons: one, you're out of control, and two, you're trashing the trail. Big time. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' : http://ursine.ca/ `. `'` proud Debian admin and user `- Debian. Because it *must* work. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAO48QUzgNqloQMwcRAnraAJ9OBf7bHPKJ/kMz9aO85HO18kQWpQCeLX/j OLbcefMKoFReLcsIRBgg/Jg= =71dZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
