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Not entirely. One biiiig thing I see is being able to program your lever stroke. I hate shimano brakes due to 99% of the stroke feeling dead then that last 1% is like full lock up it seems. Im not someone who can utilize this. I like to feel a good curve of power. Afterall a good brake should not stop you, but slow you down precisely so youre faster. At least that is my belief.
Liability of wireless brakes is terrifying… I don’t think any cars are doing fully electric brakes yet?
cool if someone can make it happen though
Looks heavy.
As much as I appreciate the use of the original version of Supernaut, I kinda wish they'd used the 1000 Homo DJs cover.
Definitely a high pivot gravel bike...
Accelerometer for Fox Live valve REAR shock. (not front fork). Seems like it bolts onto ---existing---disc brake tab mounts for universal retrofit.
If so, and sold as a "bolt-on upgrade" for ANY bike, it is a slick product. An especially slick product as we enter an era where consumers "upgrade rather than replace" their bikes.
The Alfa Guila is fully brake by wire. The Infinity Q50 is steer by wire.
The Infinity is required to have a physical backup, but I haven't heard if there is a backup system for the brakes in the Alfa. Most reviewers complained about the lack of modulation at low speeds making it hard to smoothly stop the Alpha.
Almost all modern cars with some kind of driver's assistance including emergency braking have electronic control of the brakes. Most are a tradition braking system with additional computer input not pure brake by wire though.
I was about to post about how the cybertruck is steer by wire and many manufacturers have expressed interested in brake by wire due to their inherent benefits. Won't be long til brands try it. Still surprised by how eebs don't have wireless remotes to change modes.
I think Brembo, or Bosch?, developed brake by wire braking in their electro wheels.
Why are so afraid? Your fighter jets are totally drive by wire almost 30 years. And US techno is top of all, isn't it?
Did you just compare billion-dollar fighter jets to passenger cars?
The new Corvette Z06 is also brake by wire, but most reviewers don't love it compared to conventional brakes.
I'm fine with hydraulic brakes and even shifting and dropper posts using cables. I don't have problems with it and I don't notice it while riding, so I have doubts it's going to make mtb'ing a better, more fun experience overall.
OTOH, I did just get a cable-actuated Eagle drivetrain for a REALLY good price, so there's that.
Been out of the forum for awhile so not sure if it’s been posted but just spotted this on a video go pro posted on IG of Jackson… getting away from vpp? Certainly not a “traditional” Santa Cruz
Sorry if it’s already been posted*
Cars are doing it for a while now (Alfa Romeo Gulia was the first one I think), it's the steering that is getting to be fly by wire now, first one of the Lexus cars, now the Cybertruck.
Scrap the Shimanos and go Code RSC then
Doesn't really look like Jackson of today, if Jackson at all. And the bike is a Horst link or a split pivot.
you know the saying "it looks like a session"
it's because it is.
Ah yea an old video makes sense. No redbull helmet. It’s certainly Jackson out front, and remy following. But it must be a trek.
The video was posted only a few days ago tho, so that’s what threw me off
https://www.instagram.com/reel/C0PvPpTPAft/?igshid=NzBmMjdhZWRiYQ==
Not only that, but the military is much more risk tolerant than the general population. Military aircraft require insane amounts of maintenance and still go catastrophically wrong relatively frequently because of how complex they are. Their operators accept those risks as part of the job.
Not to mention that fly-by-wire is used in fighter jets to keep them in the air, because they're often so aerodynamically unstable that any human pilot would crash one using traditional controls. It's not just for the fun of it.
They need to update the Dreadnaught anyways. I bet it will be a 170/170 bike. And maybe different linkages for DH applications.
Automotive systems have built in redundancy. The BBW and SBW systems have hydraulic and mechanical backups in case of failure. (I'm a brake controls engineer). True brake by wire, electro-mechanical (EPB's), would still have a secondary redundant power source, possibly even a third, to prevent any 'no brake' scenarios.
Wireless braking is sketchy and I'd personally never use it. Always have redundancy.
No, I just compared electro signals in one metal thread to another metal thread.
Electric power steering motors for example have dual windings so even if one of the two fails, the other can still power the steering. The car of course throws a catastrophic error, probably even goes into limp mode and forces the driver to stop ASAP to prevent any further issues.
The amount of bureaucratic systems in place to develop these kinds of things in automotive fields would probably be quite surprising to many people, on the other hand there are a ton of products in the bike industry where it's really questionable if even the basic FMEA was made at all...
https://fotos.mtb-news.de/p/2768401
oohh boys, wireless brakes are not coming to normal bikes due to weight penalty.
The best use case for wireless brakes is the F1 style of brake. You have an engine, motor, some shit that takes power away/recharge batteries when braking. Use that energy before the calipers with abs (on an e-bike you can have it sliding just a bit, never fully locked for example). Lever feel would be something like incresing spring force untill you actuate the brake itself. To be fair, there is a mechanical way of doing that, not even wireless.
For the front of the bike, the maximum will be abs. The weight will never be low enough to justify. Also safety since there is no way of braking if there is any problem.
Looks to be updated shigura’s. Definitely interesting
From the article:
What's the deal with the brake?
The brakes come from the Alb ra ( Swabian Alb, editor's note 
. You may know - the three worst diseases of humanity: cholera, leprosy and from the Alb ra ( Swabian joke, editor's note 
. They come from Steffen Braungardt and he also makes the majority of the milled parts. That's why I have his prototype brake levers here now.
Are they fully adjustable?
Exactly! On the one hand, you can adjust the lever ratio, but also the free travel regardless of the grip width. The brake levers are available to fit Magura MT5 or MT7 or for Shimano brake calipers. They will be coming onto the market soon.
There's no way of braking with hydraulic brakes if they have a problem. It's easier to build a fail safe into a brake like that than it is with a hydraulic system, surely? e.g. if the caliper losses connection to the lever it could be set up automatically apply X amount of force to bring you to a controlled stop.
From personal experience if you encounter a problem with your lever, hose, or caliper on a hydraulic brake, there's nothing you're doing about it. There's no redundancy or safety built into the system at any point in terms of failures.
Don't think it has been posted yet. I notice the same in one of latest Metailler video. Looks like a trek.. might borrow a bike. But it seems weird from him to get shown on popular video without SC bike. It looks like a final version of a carbon bike too by the look and risk taken in these drops. Maybe SC thinking of doing a more traditional suspension layout and get rid of that counter rotating upper link which would be odd.
I think I saw a video of him on his Trek Slash from not too long ago. Might be prior gen Slash that he still has from the Trek days. As to why he would be riding that over a SC bike, no idea.
Those 5.10 Kestrel shoes are from ~2019 I believe.