Brake design (million dollar)

Hack, or anyone else. Has anyone ever built a brake into the front fork or rear chainstay and used hydraulic components to push a pad against the wheel rim? This would get rid of a visible caliper or a disc brake structure down around the hub. It would require a fatter upper fork and chainstay but that could be nicely faired and made a part of the bike's lines.

I will bet it's been done but I've never heard of it.

Another chance for funetical to make a million dollars. We have to help this bloke.

 

HandsomeRyan, my only thought was for aero benefit and because it seemed like a likely experiment. The photo you added is not quite what I picture. I would have the mini-hydraulics inside the forks with nothing but a fluid line going in. It might look like a snake swallowing a mole but it would be aero smooth. And fun, too.

 

I just looked at the Magura website. Not at all like I want. All the guts inside the fattened forks and chainstays. A simple piston inside the fork and pushing inward toward the rim. All that would be exposed would be a rubber brake pad of some kind and that would be inside the fork.

funetical is correct. Don't send people to Google. This is a group design effort. All senders of persons to Google will not be included in the final cash prize. Unless funetical gets it done first and then we're all porked.

 

Yes. I have a reputation to maintain.

 

Kona and a few others are putting discs on road bikes. But I agree with you, they're unneeded.

 

Sort of like an American public train system I'd imagine: Not many tracks going nowhere fast.

Best I can do, Hack. Not much funny coming to me at the moment.

But what the hell's so fine out in space? Never understood the yearning to go out there when any place worth exploring is light years away. Blast off. Grow very old. Arrive on planet dingleberry of the Uranis Galaxy and die. No need to fly back.

I don't get it.

 

funetical, as long as it's you blokes paying the way to nowhere it's good with me. Our last contact with space tech was Hitler's V2 rockets. Maybe why we're not so interested.

 

funetical, I'm watching you at this very moment through the computer screen. You've been wasting time and treasure out in space. We've invested in extreme "voyeurism". It's more fun here on earth.