-=> Quoting Paul Edwards to Bill Grimsley <=-

Hello Paul,

 RG>> As a bike rider, my greatest fear isn't when I'm riding, but 
 RG>> when I'm stopped at traffic lights and there's a car behind 
 RG>> me. This is when I'm most vulnerable.  If the cars brakes 
 RG>> don't work, and ploughs into me I'm totally rooted.. Either 
 RG>> run over by the car itself, or pushed into the oncoming 
 RG>> traffic... neither is very nice.
 
 BG> FWIW, that is PRECISELY how my ex-wife's brother was killed in 1968.

 PE> What, a dual brake system simultaneously failed did it.  The porkies
 PE> are getting better by the minute.  BFN.  Paul. 

 This "dual brake system" you speak of in use in the vast majority of cars
today, is NOT  (read FUCKING NOT)  dual redundancy.  I know of only some
Rolls that have a full blown dual redundancy brake system.

 If you lose either the front or back half of your braking system, you still
have _some_ braking, but maybe you don't know how much this "some" actually
is.  This "some" is actually a lot closer to "fuck all"
rather than
"just made it".
 On top of that, it depends on WHAT area of your "dual braking
system" actually
failed.  If it's the master cylinder, then you have NO brakes.

 How much do YOU trust your "non dual redundant" brake system
now?  Still do?
Read up on it, and find out how this "dual braking system" works, and then
ask which areas fail according to common failures, and what happens when it
does.
 Wow, your super-duper dual brake system suddenly becomes less effective than
your "shoe heel rubbing against the ground in a billy-kart" braking system.


John Tserkezis, Sydney, Oz. Fidonet: 3:712/610  Internet: jt{at}suburbia.com.au

... She said I never listen to her, or something like that...
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