On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 05:04:26PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:46:08PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > > It's not too difficult to work out the maximum breaking force that can be > > applied before you get thrown onto the road. > > I believe it is 0.67g. Of course you can't achieve this with the rear > wheel alone so by not using the front wheel you're sure not to flip > over, but you're also getting much less deceleration.
It's g tan theta, where theta is the angle between the vertical and a line drawn from the point where the wheel touches the road and the C of G of the (bike + rider). However, the available friction force between the tyre and the road places an upper limit on this, which will probably be something between 1 and 1.5 g depending on how sticky your tyres are. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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