Brake Therapy Floater Kit

grahame.knight · May 2007

I recently purchased a rear brake floating kit from Therapy Components in the U.S for my 06 Stinky. I just want to say that it has made such a difference to the way the rear suspension behaves under hard braking over rough terrain (i.e - brake jack) Fitting was a doddle and the instructions were very good. I just wanted to shed a bit of light upon this good bit of kit that might be over looked as its only available in the states. If you suffer from brake jack go to www.therapycomponents.com

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nicklouse · May 2007

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haroexone · May 2007

why do you say that,nicklouse?

nicklouse · May 2007

try doing some research on "brake jack".

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mrblonde · May 2007

did this idiot seriously join the forum just to tell us he bought a brake arm? Nick you dissapoint me, this idiot aint just a sucka, he is retarded to boot!

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haroexone · May 2007

so do you think the ones on the new konas are a waste of time too?

Stuff · May 2007

It seriously looks like some kind of sales pitch to me but then Im not very trusting. If floating brake arms made such an astounding difference to the way a bike works wouldnt we all have them?

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I wouldn't have put yours on anyway, on account of you being a n00b
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haroexone · May 2007

i remember reading somewhere that the one on the pro stab has 2 positions,1 of which increases brake jack!apparently fabian likes it in corners

Stuff · May 2007

Thats the suspension settings rather than a floating arm

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haroexone · May 2007

no,it was definitely the floating arm connections

wwjjtt · May 2007

nobody really has a clue about this do they? there was a good article in dirt i think about this, sometime last year?i do remember it explaning that it makes conering a different experence. i was speaking to a bike mechanic in work last week who says it does work, but to the average rider it might not be that noticeable. when you brake the rear wheel will cause a downwards and forward force, which in turn will depress the suspension and stop it working under heavy braking. the dope would push it into the frame and alow the sus to work while braking. this does make me wonder if the down tube needs to be strenghtend?

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Mike Skinner · May 2007

The head of mojo/fox suspension summed it up nicely.

"You shouldn't be braking in the corners anyway"
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"If Ricky Carmichael doesn't need it, you don't need it"

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wwjjtt · May 2007

no you brake into a corner....where the brake bumps are!! and you are gonna need to brake somewhere and lets face it they aren't gonna tarmac every braking area so it could be usefull.

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Mike Skinner · May 2007

http://forums.farkin.net/showthread.php?t=35572
to highlight the conclusion near the bottom of the page:

"Some bikes do actually "jack" but these are few and far between, and it's not always bad enough to even be noticeable, let alone a problem. There is a definite placebo effect surrounding brake systems, and it is not unlikely that this is due mainly to lack of education/understanding on the subject. Some people will swear black and blue that singlepivots are nearly unrideable due to perceived "brake jack", others will simply state that they've never even noticed it. From this we can make a logical conclusion: BISI does exist, and that it is not necessarily a problem - in fact in some forms and to some degrees it can even be useful. However it is hard to believe that any common amount of brake squat can make a bike unrideable, or anything to that end. Notably, the bike on which Fabien Barel won the 2004 world DH championships on had a brake linkage designed specifically to increase the level of (pro-)squat far beyond what normal bikes generate. Riding the production version of this bike, you can feel a huge tendency for the rear end to dive when the rear brake is applied. Given that no owners of those bikes seem to have any problem with the extreme brake setup, one might logically assume that it's not actually that bad, and that other bikes with considerably less brake induced squat can hardly be any worse off, and thus are perfectly fine to ride"

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