Basic physics again: if you're at the limit, you have to be pushing against the bars. Unless you can get your COG lower than the axle of the front wheel then you have to have something to push against to stop yourself going over the bars!
Actually it's not the axle that matters, it's the tyre contact patch - so unless you can get your centre of mass lower than the road it's still theoretically possible to launch yourself.
Point.
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However, until tyre technology can come up with the sort of grip required, LWB recumbent riders needn't worry too much about it. :-)
In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden] says...
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Phil Armstrong wrote: [snip]
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Disks are more expensive. Discs are more fragile. Discs place more force on the wheel spokes in order to transfer the braking force to the rim. Discs are heavier. Discs need forks that can cope with the forces applied to them & are therefore heavier than would otherwise be necessary.
You forgot the one about discs making your whells fall off if the skewers aren't tight enough
<runs for cover>
I note that the Cotic RoadRat multi-purpose frameset either has the front disc mount on the RH fork blade or that they accidentally reversed the picture.
(Checks)
Nope, RHS...
-- Dave Larrington - <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk/> I thought I saw his name on a jar of marmalade the other day, but when I looked more closely, I saw it read 'thick cut'.
