ah ah never heard about this ^^ here in EU are the brakes also reversed... reverse them again is actually the first thing I do when i buy/mount a bike I'm a motor-biker and that's the way it HAS to beauraslip said:It's my understanding that brakes are reversed on American bikes because they got sued when people used their stronger right hands to send themselves over the bars. I hate this country some times.
Alan B said:Bicycle brakes are arranged for hand signalling. Rear on curbside. Front on signalling hand side.
Have never had problems changing between motorcycle, bicycle and atv brakes. Due to clutches things will not be the same, period. The brain is amazingly adaptive.
I understand that, I was quite happy that the EVG has a mirror during my experiment to climb the Santa Cruz mountains, especially during parts of the descent where I reached up to 50 MPH - the bike felt solid even at that speed and I just needed to make sure no car was trying to pass me if I wanted to lean into a left turn (lay the bike flat) although there were a couple turns where I *needed* to brake to slow down quite a bit. There it helped that the EVG has a brake light, this signaled to the cars behind me what I was doing. Since most of the descent was either going full speed or braking for a sharper turn, almost no cars passed me on the entire 6 miles down and the ones that did often accelerated hard to make it past me before the next turn, since I was already over the speed limit on the straights. *never* have I gone so fast on a bicycle. It was slightly scary and very cold even though it was a sunny day - I wore no jacket as I expected a warm day and did not want to melt on my way up doing the pedal-assist thing.ddk said:Flying down a hill over 30mph I'm not so keen turning my head in the slightest, so I started using mirrors
My EVG bike has stock brakes and front brake is right as I am used to - I have always ridden European bikes until 8 years ago. I think I would swap cables if front would be on the left brake handle or see if my brain picks up on using more front brake on the other handle automatically. (On a two wheeler, you always have to do manual proportioning between front and rear and to get best stopping power, front has to brake much harder. Only on a car there is a proportioning valve and ABS that will do this automatically when you stomp your foot down on the service brake pedal.)Alan B said:Bicycle brakes are arranged for hand signalling. Rear on curbside. Front on signalling hand side.
ddk said:I'm currently contemplating installing a rear-view camera and a 7" monitor on this trike to augment the mirrors
haven't decided yet but I already have the parts installed where I no longer need that feature
docnjoj said:ddk said:blah blah blah... rear-view camera and a 7" monitor...
I have one on my tadpole but in bright sunlight the screen is useless. On cloudy or overcast days it is really helpful, but you still need mirrors.
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