Q: Maximum number of brakes (allowing for duplicate types), or maximum number of different brake types?
i think maximum number of different brake types would be ideal.
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I remembered we discussed this before.
lol. so fucking good.
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this makes it clear that it was never truly “parallel push” before without the duplicity
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Caliper
Canti
V
Roller
Disc
Hydro variants
Multiple rotors
Side by side Double rear wheel (old 90s snow bike?)
Rear Flip flop hub with a chain on nds side that operates a third wheel
There’s also the off-the-back of the seat tire stopper, let me find a photo
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Spoon brake, like penny farthings had?
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Multiple brake mounts on a truss fork
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Related, pull a Grant and double the chain and seat stays.
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Ftfy
OK I swear this was just not a fever dream, but I really did see this brake somewhere, on some low-end bike at a recycled cycles type place pile or something:
The rear rim was formed such that on one side it had an extra part of the rim extrusion, an entire narrow channel, that stuck out beyond the width of the tire. Then there was a piece of cable (roughly normal brake-cable sized) that wrapped entirely around the circumference of the rim, laying in this extra rim channel.
When you squeezed the brake lever, it tightened up the cable, which in turn rubbed on the rim channel it was sitting in, slowing the bike.
For the life of me I cannot find a pic or even a description online, but I know it existed.
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U nerd
U r also a nerd
presumably that’s dragging some amount 100% of the time, right?
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Another Q: Do the brakes operate from a single lever per wheel, does each brake have it’s own lever, or is it one lever operating multiple levers?
needs at least one https://surestop.bike/ then
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