Brake vs Break

Fender76

A Brake is a mechanical device which inhibits motion.

To Break is to separate into two or more pieces, to fracture or crack.

That is all.

Lumen

Fender76 wrote: »

A brake is a mechanical device which inhibits motion.

What slows a bike down, the brakes or the tyres?

Is it possible to implement a frictionless brake?

Fender76

Thats a topic for another day..!
Lets deal with the spelling first....:D

Raam

A pedal is what I use to smash off my shins.

A peddle is some other yoke altogether.

magicbastarder

Lumen wrote: »

Is it possible to implement a frictionless brake?

you possibly could using induction. best to have a battery to capture the energy from that.

AstraMonti

A footpad is an archaic term for a robber or thief specializing in pedestrian victims.
Α footpath (also pedestrian way, walking trail, nature trail) is a type of thoroughfare that is intended primary for use by pedestrians, but not other forms of traffic such as motorized vehicles and horseback.

Raam

An aerobat is a fast, streamlined, winged and sightless mammal.
An aerobar is what makes road bikes ugly.
An Aero bar is tasty.

trad

Their, there, they're, to two too noone.

Lumen

Tyres have threads inside and treads outside.

TheBlaaMan

The LETTER between N and P is NOT a number.

Zero is a number.......

Raam

TheBlaaMan wrote: »

The LETTER between N and P is NOT a number.

Zero is a number.......

What about naught?

Lumen

Raam wrote: »

What about naught?

Nought.

Raam

Lumen wrote: »

Nought.

Nowt.

studiorat

Excellent thread.

And while we're at it, it's Campagnolo not Campagnola and tyres not tires.

Hunterbiker

Your as in 'your bicycle'
You're as in 'you're a cyclist'

This thread is great! Can we make it part of the charter or something?

Raam

studiorat wrote: »

tyres not tires.

Both are acceptable.

Inquitus

Raam wrote: »

Both are acceptable.

Not so, heathen.

seamus

magicbastarder wrote: »

you possibly could using induction. best to have a battery to capture the energy from that.

You could also make a kind of air brake whereby the spokes are lined with blades which sit flat to the wheel, and then pop out into sails when you want to slow down. Technically that involves friction though I suppose. And would be fairly crap. Would also make turning at speed interesting.

Raam

Inquitus wrote: »

Not so, heathen.

Don't make me post a link!

RobertFoster

Raam wrote: »

Both are acceptable.

I thought it was just another British- vs American-English thing, I didn't know it was a fairly recent change.

slideshow bob

magicbastarder wrote: »

you possibly could using induction. best to have a battery to capture the energy from that.

At the risk of going off topic, regenerative braking is used in most electric trains these days, including the DART. No friction (not much) and in the case of the DART reduces energy requirements by 26%.

mossym

Lumen wrote: »

What slows a bike down, the brakes or the tyres?

Is it possible to implement a frictionless brake?

two steel spears, fired directly down into the ground while remaining attached to the bike would act as a brake and not use friction.

you could argue the old back pedal brake on a kid's bike wasn't using friction to stop the wheels of the bike, but it was using the friction of the tires on the road i guess

studiorat

Raam wrote: »

Both are acceptable.

To you perhaps...

Raam

studiorat wrote: »

To you perhaps...

I don't really mind if it's the British or the Americans who influence spellings.

ford2600

"you could argue the old back pedal brake on a kid's bike wasn't using friction to stop the wheels of the bike"

You'd be wrong though. Friction is between brake shoes and hub

mossym

ford2600 wrote: »

"you could argue the old back pedal brake on a kid's bike wasn't using friction to stop the wheels of the bike"

You'd be wrong though. Friction is between brake shoes and hub

??
the back pedal brakes i'm talking about didn't have brake shoes, they just locked up the hub??? (or so i thought)

Harrybelafonte

Yeah, cyclists, they're not smug ****ers at all at all.

ford2600

mossym wrote: »

??
the back pedal brakes i'm talking about didn't have brake shoes, they just locked up the hub??? (or so i thought)

This type?

http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/coaster-hub-overhaul-pedal-brake-hub

Fender76

If you were trigger happy with your brakes and pulled them every couple of seconds causing the group behind you to swerve and nearly crash would you be Braking Bad...?

ThisRegard

Raam wrote: »

Both are acceptable.

Go home yank American.

Harrybelafonte

Fender76 wrote: »

If you were trigger happy with your brakes and pulled them every couple of seconds causing the group behind you to swerve and nearly crash would you be Braking Bad...?

No, you'd me misusing an adjective.

mossym

ford2600 wrote: »

This type?

http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/coaster-hub-overhaul-pedal-brake-hub

i had the bike when i was 5, at the time i wasn't into taking the hub apart

all i remember is it was close to digital braking as you could get. there was no slowing down motion, the slightest back pedal would lock the back wheel completely, which was what led me to believe now looking back that it locked the hub. could be that i'm wrong though.

anyway, i'm off to patent my frictionless steel spike idea...

mossym

ThisRegard wrote: »

Go home yank.

it's Yank, people really should get their use of the y sorted out.

TheBlaaMan

Raam wrote: »

What about naught?

Lumen wrote: »

Nought.

Raam wrote: »

Nowt.

All are acceptable. Anything other than "ooohh" when someone means the number below 1

seamus

mossym wrote: »

it's Yank, people really should get their use of the y sorted out.

I don't think he's missing a capital, I think he was trying to tell us his agenda for the rest of the day, but forgot a semicolon:

"Go home; yank"

spokesm0del

I *saw* it, not I *seen* it!

route66

That has it's own problem, although its mine to solve

Doctor Bob

Woo hoo!! Typo's!!

Reservoir Cogs

Pedant - a person who is excessively concerned with formalism and precision, or who makes an ostentatious and arrogant show of learning
Pendant - A pendulum; A hanging or suspended appendage or ornament

Lumen

Reservoir Cogs wrote: »

Pendant - A pendulum; A hanging or suspended appendage or ornament

You really shouldn't capitalise after a semi-colon.

Also, full stops.

petethedrummer

Reservoir Cogs wrote: »

Pendant - A hanging or suspended appendage

That's my new name for it.

Jawgap

Helmet.....




Helmut....




Hamlet

jinkypolly

Loose - Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached.
Lose - Be deprived of or cease to have or retain (something)

Kav0777

A bicycle is stationary when it's not moving.

A bicycle is not stationery. Pens are stationery.

Spook_ie

Raam wrote: »

An aerobat is a fast, streamlined, winged and sightless mammal.
An aerobar is what makes road bikes ugly.
An Aero bar is tasty.

Surely an Aerobat is someone who performs Aerobatics?

Spook_ie

route66 wrote: »

That has it's own problem, although its mine to solve

That has its own problem, although it's mine to solve

Kav0777

Spook_ie wrote: »

That has its own problem, although it's mine to solve

That has its own problem, although it's mine to solve.

Spook_ie

Road tax is any tax charged for the use of a road.
Road tax is also any tax used for the upkeep of a road.
Therefore Motortax is a roadtax.

seamus

Spook_ie wrote: »

Road tax is any tax charged for the use of a road.
Road tax is also any tax used for the upkeep of a road.
Therefore Motortax is a roadtax.

Doctor Bob

Spook_ie wrote: »

Road tax is any tax charged for the use of a road.
Road tax is also any tax used for the upkeep of a road.
Therefore Motortax is a roadtax.

Syllogism fail.

desertcircus

Spook_ie wrote: »

Surely an Aerobat is someone who performs Aerobatics?

Nah, that's Batman you're thinking of.