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Oddjob:
Probably died of repetitive strain injury of the fingers from so much typing.

Laverda Dave:
I think this idea is the ultimate front brake for an old school cafe racer. A CBX front disc/caliper with a spoked wheel to give a drum look but with the efficiency of a double disc. l wanted to fit one to my Triton build but alas the brake was a one-off. I think it would cost an absolute fortune to make with all the mods and polishing involved. Great piece of engineering though.

Lobo:

--- Quote from: Laverda Dave on October 24, 2022, 09:39:47 PM ---Great piece of engineering though.

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..in two minds wrt this Dave; as I get older I’m shying away more and more from complexity, the advantages rarely seem to outweigh the outright pain of cost and bloody maintenances. If you can make something work with 2 or 3 moving parts, why would you want to do it with 20? 😂.

Great engineering to me now infers ingenuity and lateral thinking simplicity.
Just my 2penneth…

Cappodimonte:

--- Quote from: Bryanj on October 24, 2022, 08:18:53 AM ---You say the braking is apply Sunday stop Monday but you obiously never road tested a Ural (Dneiper) where road tests of the day quoted stopping distance from 30 as the horizon and from 60, if you got it to go that fast as 14 miles past the horizon, yet they made efficiency on mot

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Can’t say I’ve ever ridden a a Ural, but worked on plenty of Lara’s, Moskvich’s and concluded Russian stopping was more to do with bumping into something to aid retardation than actually braking.

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