Why? Please tell me why?

[TooFastTim]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2052510/Wireless-bicycle-brake-fails-times-trillion-uses-paves-way-revolution-control-systems.html

[ba-02-xr]

Just keep count how many times you apply

[TooFastTim]

Oh it wasn't the reliability that got me. Just why all the additional complexity when a bowden canble or hydraulic line is perfectly adaquate.

A bit like yuppies who buy a $600 iPad when an old fashioned $2 dollar paper notebook will do.

[Mike52]

Brilliant just brilliant.
Besides the unsprung weight imagine passing a demolition site and grabbing a handfull of front brake.




"BOOM"

[steveo247]

A bit like yuppies who buy a $600 iPad when an old fashioned $2 dollar paper notebook will do.

I dont even know where to start with how inaccurate this part is! lol 

[Nathan S]

The bike brake is purely proof of concept.
Pushie brakes matter, but less than aircraft or automotive stuff - making them a good statement of effectiveness without really endangering lives.

[TooFastTim]

A bit like yuppies who buy a $600 iPad when an old fashioned $2 dollar paper notebook will do.

I dont even know where to start with how inaccurate this part is! lol 

Guess who owns an iPad 

[Stan S]

A bit like yuppies who buy a $600 iPad when an old fashioned $2 dollar paper notebook will do.

Hey TooFastTim,
I suppose i must be one of those yuppies you speak of as I use my iPad to keep connected to the OZVMX forum especially while I am travelling. I tried the $2 notebook but didn't seem to be able to get a network connection

Cheers Stan.

[Rossvickicampbell]

Ha Stan - luv it!

[asasin]

it only takes one time in a trillion to go under a car

[Nathan S]

If you work out how often you use your brakes, three in a trillion is gonna take a long time before it puts you under a bus.
More importantly, cable brakes fail far more often than that...

[TooFastTim]

If you work out how often you use your brakes, three in a trillion is gonna take a long time before it puts you under a bus.
More importantly, cable brakes fail far more often than that...

But batteries and solenoids?

[TooFastTim]

A bit like yuppies who buy a $600 iPad when an old fashioned $2 dollar paper notebook will do.

Hey TooFastTim,
I suppose i must be one of those yuppies you speak of as I use my iPad to keep connected to the OZVMX forum especially while I am travelling. I tried the $2 notebook but didn't seem to be able to get a network connection

Cheers Stan.

Yes but joking aside I hope you get my point. I'm not talking about all singing dancing devices (I used the iPad as a bad example). My point is that we don't really need a lot of tech to solve a simple problem.

[pancho]

It depends wether that"ONE TIME" is the first or the last time its to be used!
cheers

[Stan S]

Yes but joking aside I hope you get my point. I'm not talking about all singing dancing devices (I used the iPad as a bad example). My point is that we don't really need a lot of tech to solve a simple problem.

I hear you and agree to a point Tim.

Stan.