Wireless Brakes

blu3cat
blu3cat Posts: 1,016
edited October 2011 in Commuting chat
Interesting, although not sure how the modulation would feel.

Also how does a 3 in a trillion failure compare to standard brakes?

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/17/wireless-bike-brake-system-has-the-highest-gpa-ever/
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  • SimonAH
    SimonAH Posts: 3,730
    Come on, this is not a real world cycling innovation - it's an experiment into wireless braking systems and the simplest braking platform to apply it to is a bicycle.

    Plus by dressing it up a bit the academic in question gets some column inches.
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  • LeDomestiqueTours
    LeDomestiqueTours Posts: 56
    SimonAH wrote:
    Come on, this is not a real world cycling innovation - it's an experiment into wireless braking systems and the simplest braking platform to apply it to is a bicycle.

    Plus by dressing it up a bit the academic in question gets some column inches.

    Even with that failure rate I'm not sure I could trust them in the mountains..... :oops:
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  • blu3cat
    blu3cat Posts: 1,016
    SimonAH wrote:
    Come on, this is not a real world cycling innovation - it's an experiment into wireless braking systems and the simplest braking platform to apply it to is a bicycle.

    Plus by dressing it up a bit the academic in question gets some column inches.

    agreed, although that was probably said about electronic shifting. What about wired rather than wireless? Brake by wire.....
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    My brakes on MTB are wireless...... hydraulic.
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  • gilesjuk
    gilesjuk Posts: 340
    Another person trying to solve a problem that doesn't exist.

    Cars use hydraulic brakes, they don't use complex electronics (they have sensors for wear and ABS, but the actuation is still hydraulic). There is a reason for this, it is safe and tried and tested. If cars don't use wireless junk then why would bikes? (which are inherently simpler).

    Batteries have no place in a bicycle braking system.
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    It's on the front page of BR at the mo too.

    It's a step forward. Was it Henry Ford who once said "If I asked my customers what they wanted I'd have had to give them a faster horse"?

    Innovation can come about by answering a problem that doesn't exist. I'll have a some wireless brakes, to go with the Di2 nonsense when I get round to ordering a set.

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