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Why do carbon rims make tdf riders crash?
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Posted 10 months ago #
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hot disc can do to someone i am not sure the UCI are going to be overly happy with them in the peleton
I doubt road discs get any hotter than DH discs, after all there is plenty of airflow, and these ladies aren't for braking... A hot rotor bite has to be better than a bigger crash.
if you think 700c carbon tubs are bad, think back to 20" skyway mags...
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You don't get DH pile ups with 200 riders with lots of exposed flesh though, totally irrelevant analogy.
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What on earth do road suspension forks (I believe you are referring to the short lived Rockshox Ruby, which were not especially light, just Mag21's with a different arch) have to do with a discussion about disc brakes on road bikes?
Sam, if you look at my original post, I said 'on a vaguely connected note'.
Anyhoo back to wheels.
'Stronger' may not have been the correct term though it can depend on how deep the rim is. In answer to to oldgit's comment about deep rims, yes they can be susceptible to cross winds.
I recently added a pair of Easton EC90 56mm wheels to the collection and the front can be real twitchy in a cross wind. Easton do a 90mm version as do numerous others, but that's too deep for my liking and I weigh nearly 13st.
On the back disks, tri spokes deep sections are NOT affected by cross winds.
The CTT are responsible for UK time trialling, and Zipp 1080's are not allowed on the front as they have more than 45% of their surface area enclosed.
I'll stop now as the regs for bike design, weights etc etc, are an utter utter minefield when you factor in the different regs of the UCI, BC, CTT, BTF yadda yadda yadda
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Make the brake blocks out of carbon and the rims from rubber, problem solved
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My daughter's boyfriend was telling me the other day that his new deep section carbon rims are v. scary in crosswinds, especially on downhill mountain sections. He did the etape this weekend and was undecided about using them.
He was one of the minority who finished - the only reason he didn't pack it in was that all the buses were already full of retirees.
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Light weight is not the overriding issue for many TdF competitors - it's stiffness. That's why you see Reynolds using two-cross builds with straight gauge rather than bladed and butted spokes, tied and soldered.
While stock Thirty-Two wheels prioritize saving weight – a critical metric for the enthusiast market – AG2R instead requested that they be stiffened up.
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You don't get DH pile ups with 200 riders with lots of exposed flesh though, totally irrelevant analogy.
Perhaps with brakes that worked you wouldn't get 200 man pile ups. Just as likely to lose a finger in a wheel as in a disc rotor.
Posted 10 months ago # -
Don't get the same modulation with discs that you do with rim brakes, so I don't ever see discs going anywhere past TT bikes.
Besides, if you brake, you lose.
Posted 10 months ago # -
RealMan - Member
Don't get the same modulation with discs that you do with rim brakes, so I don't ever see discs going anywhere past TT bikes.
Eh? Of course you can and do.Posted 10 months ago # -
Disc breaks wont help on decents, rim breaks make the tyres niche and hot and therefore very very grippy. Discs would mean no heat = more crashes!
That's quite amusing
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