Bike Braking

5jensen

I mountain bike a lot with my friends and every time I brake, I have that annoying squealing sound coming from my brakes. To solve this problem, a few friends of mine and myself accepted the challenge to engineer a solution for school. If you could help us out by taking a quick survey, it would be greatly appreciated. Cyber thumbs up to everyone that helps!

https://docs.google.com/a/arrowheadscho ... o/viewform

Due to forum rules, I must provide the following:
I am an engineering student at Arrowhead High School who is conducting a survey in hopes to gather information on peoples views of bike braking systems and squealing brakes. I plan to use these data to settle on a solution to pursue. The survey will be closed by December 23, 2014. Give a few days after the survey closes and the results will be posted as a reply under this thread.

cooldad

Seriously? Punt a squirrel?

Come back when you grow up and take it seriously.

I have a dozen or so bikes, with discs, cantis, V's and side-pull calliper. I would have been out after question 1

cooldad

ps gonna is not actually a word.

rockmonkeysc

This has to be a troll. I put a fiver on this being from GT's mum, there's a clue in there :-)

buddy_club

Terrible survey hahaha

buddy_club

RockmonkeySC wrote:

This has to be a troll. I put a fiver on this being from GT's mum, there's a clue in there :-)

I found two, the name (isnt gt into formula 1?) and the school....

[b]5jensen[/b] wrote:

arrowheadschools.org

Arrowhead High School

cooldad

RockmonkeySC wrote:

This has to be a troll. I put a fiver on this being from GT's mum, there's a clue in there :-)

That would explain the massive fail.

rockmonkeysc

GT's mum never fails

nicklouse

Unfortunately not a troll.

But thankfully not a result of the UK education system.

gt-arrowhead

So me and my mum are getting the stick for someone not making a survey properly

I had a feeling this was coming the moment i read "Arrowhead" in the original post... then i scroll down and unsurprisingly i was correct.

5jensen

Hey all,
"I like to have strong opinions with nothing to back them up with besides my primal sincerity. I like sincerity. I lack sincerity." ~Kurt Cobain
Cooldad--> Nope, yep, gonna - none of those are words. I was just trying to save you from the insanity of filling out a survey.

rockmonkeysc

Kurt Kobain was a genius musician. One of the greatest son writers of the last 40 years and a brilliant guitarist and singer but a idiot junkie who did talk some b0ll0cks.

5jensen

Still... makes for a snappy quote

cooldad

I see a long successful career ahead of you. Saying "would you like fries with that?"

5jensen

Says the grown man who quotes Kung Fu Panda

Angus Young

5jensen wrote:

Says the grown man who quotes Kung Fu Panda

cooldad a 'grown man'? Haven't been here long, have you...

njee20

I was just trying to save you from the insanity of filling out a survey.

Think you meant inanity, not insanity. Clearly the US education system is continuing to surpass itself.

The survey is pretty lame though, jokey answers aside, questions about replacing my brakes with one which has the same performance etc, you're basically asking "how much would you pay to stop your brakes squealing?".

Chunkers1980

and if the combined R&D of the giant bike component manufacturers are yet to find a solution for all situations then how is your small team going to fare?

tootsie323

Hev a read up on brake pad changing. Some compounds can lead to squealing when braking, depending on the fitting (I did a DIY job on my discs some time ago and had to work on some interference due to maladjustment of the piston at the rear).

Edit. PS. I did take the (brief!) survey. I appreciate your intentions in the wording but, from my perspective at least, it does not come across as a serious survey should.

stubs

Is Punt a Squirrel a euphemism.

As the survey writer is from the US and therefore believes the world is 4,000 yeras old and Dinosors was around like the same time as Adam, euphemism is like some words that dont meen wot thy suond like.

poah

my breaks don't squeal

The Rookie

Neither do mine, but they hurt like hell!

My brakes squeal very occasionally as well.

rockmonkeysc

POAH wrote:

my breaks don't squeal

How about your brakes?

poah

RockmonkeySC wrote:

POAH wrote:

my breaks don't squeal

How about your brakes?

you do realise I spelt it wrong on purpose don't you :roll:

The Rookie

I did wonder, but as if you did it was in no way amusing I assumed you hadn't....

5jensen

stubs wrote:

Is Punt a Squirrel a euphemism.

Here you go buddy. Some great "euphemism" for ya. Should be rather self explanatory for you now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejl5rjmrnkw

buddy_club

5jensen wrote:

stubs wrote:

Is Punt a Squirrel a euphemism.

Here you go buddy. Some great "euphemism" for ya. Should be rather self explanatory for you now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejl5rjmrnkw

How is that a) self explanatory and b) funny?

cooldad

You're wasting your time. He hasn't been back since then.

buddy_club

cooldad wrote:

You're wasting your time. He hasn't been back since then.

Gutted