Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby boss » Sat Feb 23, 2013 12:04 am
And because of the above, you'd be able to run obscenely light clinchers.
Not to mention all weather braking.
Safe to say, if you can't at least appreciate the benefits (not saying you have to have a desire to run them) you don't spend enough time of the bike.
Personally I'm not a big fan of the look but for me function > form.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby cooperplace » Tue Feb 26, 2013 11:55 pm
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby Xplora » Wed Feb 27, 2013 8:32 am
While you are entitled to your opinion, this is the WORST reason to reject road bike discs.kunalraiker wrote:I don't know, Disc Brakes on a Road Bike just feel so wrong to me.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby kunalraiker » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:48 am
Xplora wrote:While you are entitled to your opinion, this is the WORST reason to reject road bike discs.kunalraiker wrote:I don't know, Disc Brakes on a Road Bike just feel so wrong to me.
Its not a reason, its a gut feeling.
As you rightly pointed we all are entitled to our opinions, we can argue on and on about this topic but in the end its the bike manufacturers that will decide.
For all you know, I might change my mind
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby clackers » Wed Feb 27, 2013 9:55 am
Kunalraiker, when you reject the Colnago C59 being offered to you, chuck it my way, right?kunalraiker wrote:but in the end its the bike manufacturers that will decide.
http://www.colnago.com/c59-disc/
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby Xplora » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:12 am
I saw the khaki one first. I am not sure I'm man enough for such a bikeclackers wrote:Kunalraiker, when you reject the Colnago C59 being offered to you, chuck it my way, right?kunalraiker wrote:but in the end its the bike manufacturers that will decide.
http://www.colnago.com/c59-disc/
Not hydro though
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby clackers » Wed Feb 27, 2013 11:41 am
Picky, picky!Xplora wrote:
Not hydro though
Alright, what about MichaelB's build, for which Mulger Bill amongst others would part with an organ?
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=61765&hilit=volagi
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby boss » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:19 pm
That khaki bike makes me froth.Xplora wrote:I saw the khaki one first. I am not sure I'm man enough for such a bikeclackers wrote:Kunalraiker, when you reject the Colnago C59 being offered to you, chuck it my way, right?kunalraiker wrote:but in the end its the bike manufacturers that will decide.
http://www.colnago.com/c59-disc/
Not hydro though
Couple of questions. What are the benefits of hydro over cable? And are there issues with boiling the fluid on hydraulic setups?
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby Xplora » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:33 pm
http://www.colnago.com/disc-braking/ sums it up.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby Mulger bill » Wed Feb 27, 2013 12:51 pm
Race you to it! I can be there in about an hour, faster if it's the black on black modelclackers wrote:Kunalraiker, when you reject the Colnago C59 being offered to you, chuck it my way, right?kunalraiker wrote:but in the end its the bike manufacturers that will decide.
http://www.colnago.com/c59-disc/
clackers wrote:Alright, what about MichaelB's build, for which Mulger Bill amongst others would part with an organ?
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=61765&hilit=volagi
Yeah, well, seems like nobody wants a kidney
A well done hydro setup will need almost zero servicing until it's pad or fluid replacement time, no cable stretch or dialling out pad wear
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby MichaelB » Wed Feb 27, 2013 1:16 pm
No organ parting required, but the F&F (in which you get Frame, Fork, seatpost and headset) isn't the cheapest, but the attention to detail is pretty good.clackers wrote:
...Alright, what about MichaelB's build, for which Mulger Bill amongst others would part with an organ?
viewtopic.php?f=34&t=61765&hilit=volagi
The ONLY* carbon, drop bar, double disc road bike that can take full fenders, and full internal routing (either cable or hydraulic brake lines) for A$2,395 that is available. NOW. There are a few others available, but NONE that have this complete list of goodies.
Hence my patience in getting one.
* - AFAIK, and I've seen a few in my searches ....
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby boss » Wed Feb 27, 2013 3:00 pm
It is reasonably easy to boil the fluid on a real-world production car if you do a few hot laps at a race circuit. If we're going to talk real-world conditions, try a few reasonably hard stops in your car and watch the pedal feel change.Xplora wrote:Boiling the fluid? How often you boiled the fluid on a car?
http://www.colnago.com/disc-braking/ sums it up.
But that really is beside the point. From what I understand it is possible to heat your discs up enough that they can boil the fluid and make the brakes fade. While dot4 fluid has a fairly high boiling point (446 deg celcius), it absorbs fluid so the boiling point does decrease in real world conditions. It's a phenomenon that is acknowledged to occur on mountainbikes. So I am curious as to if and how it is dealt with on road bikes.
I imagine we would put a fair deal of stress on a disc brake on an extended downhill, and to be honest I'm not sure if I'd rather risk blowing a tyre or losing my brakes all together due to fade. If I could pick I'd probably say lets blow the rear tyre up, haha!
On the whole I think it's a technology that will become fairly mainstream but with the riding I do (lots of climbing [and descending] fairly steep stuff) I'm not going to be an early adopter.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby biker jk » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:03 pm
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby merlin6014 » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:09 pm
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby boss » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:13 pm
Fixed that for youmerlin6014 wrote:This will be good for carbon wheels!
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby clackers » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:14 pm
And it must be pointed out that as far as mass of heat sink goes, these are 140mm rotors, not 160.boss wrote:
It is reasonably easy to boil the fluid on a real-world production car if you do a few hot laps at a race circuit. .
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby merlin6014 » Wed Feb 27, 2013 5:15 pm
Yeah exactly - the only thing i dont like about my carbon wheels is the reduced braking performance (particularly on descents).boss wrote:Fixed that for youmerlin6014 wrote:This will be good for carbon wheels!
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby MichaelB » Thu Feb 28, 2013 9:09 am
The change in pedal feel will have more to do with the pad material being outside of the optimum operating limits.boss wrote:It is reasonably easy to boil the fluid on a real-world production car if you do a few hot laps at a race circuit. If we're going to talk real-world conditions, try a few reasonably hard stops in your car and watch the pedal feel change.Xplora wrote:Boiling the fluid? How often you boiled the fluid on a car?
http://www.colnago.com/disc-braking/ sums it up.
But that really is beside the point. From what I understand it is possible to heat your discs up enough that they can boil the fluid and make the brakes fade. While dot4 fluid has a fairly high boiling point (446 deg celcius), it absorbs fluid so the boiling point does decrease in real world conditions. It's a phenomenon that is acknowledged to occur on mountainbikes. So I am curious as to if and how it is dealt with on road bikes.
I imagine we would put a fair deal of stress on a disc brake on an extended downhill, and to be honest I'm not sure if I'd rather risk blowing a tyre or losing my brakes all together due to fade. If I could pick I'd probably say lets blow the rear tyre up, haha!
On the whole I think it's a technology that will become fairly mainstream but with the riding I do (lots of climbing [and descending] fairly steep stuff) I'm not going to be an early adopter.
It is rare for even a race car to boil it's fluid, and that is with massive rotors glowing red/orange hot and dissapating a lot more energy than a road car can even try to.
Granted, it can still happen, but I'd say it's rare.
Will it happen on a road bike - in my experience (13,000+km), you'd have to be trying hard to do it.
And then offset by some other weight savings.biker jk wrote:There are disadvantages of disc brakes which appear to have been glossed over in the frenzy to embrace this new offering on a road bike. The torsional braking forces put more stress on the spokes which will require more of them and also of thicker gauge (offsetting some of the weight savings from not needing an alloy braking surface). Beefier forks will also be needed (again, adding weight). The rear wheel will be weaker due to the need for dishing on both sides.
From my Volagi, the 57cm frame is 1,225g, and this has full internal cable routing, clever little plates to make it neater as well which adds to the weight, so not bad. The fork is 482g with 380mm of uncut steerer tube.
Overall, those weights are 200 or so grams over a reasobnably light frame, but I'm not going to compare with a VWD Cervelo, as that is a completely different frame.
My wheelset, using 29er carbon rims (24mm wide) with 28 spokes front and 32 rear comes to 1,421g which is not bad.
Overall the bike will shave in just under 8kg, and for a bike with some mid tier parts, is pretty damn good for a double disc road bike.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby Xplora » Thu Feb 28, 2013 10:31 am
I just don't see the system having these kinds of problems unless people are seriously underprepared to actually ride their bike as per the technology. There are limits to everything. Brakes will fade. Tubes will blow off... perhaps people should do some work checking their limits before bombing down epic descents
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby silentbutdeadly » Thu Feb 28, 2013 11:20 am
Hydro typically has better 'feel' than cable. Cable discs feel very similar in application to rim brakes since it is essentially the same clamping mechanism as rim brakes. In my experience, well set-up hydro brakes have longer service intervals than cable brakes. But there are always buts....boss wrote:What are the benefits of hydro over cable? And are there issues with boiling the fluid on hydraulic setups?
The two biggest griefs that roadies shifting to discs are going to have to come to terms with is disc squeal and bleeding. Your brakes will squeal and turkey gobble if you don't bed the discs and pads in just so. And the bleeding of hydraulic lines can be a black art compared to the ease with which most cable brakes can be tweaked.
It's possible to boil the hydraulic fluid (certainly happens in the MTB world) but on the road it would only likely occur if you do something incredibly mad such as descending from Mt. William in the Grampians like a speed obsessed loon and finding yourself repeatedly responding to oncoming traffic....
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby barefoot » Thu Feb 28, 2013 4:36 pm
+1MichaelB wrote:The change in pedal feel will have more to do with the pad material being outside of the optimum operating limits.boss wrote:It is reasonably easy to boil the fluid on a real-world production car if you do a few hot laps at a race circuit. If we're going to talk real-world conditions, try a few reasonably hard stops in your car and watch the pedal feel change.
It is rare for even a race car to boil it's fluid, and that is with massive rotors glowing red/orange hot and dissapating a lot more energy than a road car can even try to.
Granted, it can still happen, but I'd say it's rare.
There's two ways for a car's brake system to fail due to heat.
If the pedal goes soft and you can push it to the floor with negligible braking effect, that's because your incompressible brake fluid has gone compressible - it has boiled. It happens, but it's uncommon.
If the pedal stays hard but you have to use more and more pedal force to get the braking effect you want, that's because the friction level of the pads has reduced. That's brake fade.
More robust friction materials are more resistant to fade than lower performing materials.
If somebody's hydraulic brakes were to get seriously cooked, I would expect them to experience a hard pedal (or level) with decreasing brake effectiveness, right up until the fluid boils and their levers suddenly go right to the bar.
Boiled fluid is like a snapped brake cable. It's not like progressively "losing your brakes" on a long hill.
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby zero » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:10 pm
If you have some water in your old fluid and you overheat it, then the levers go soft, they don't immediately go straight back to the bars and fail to work at all. ie you should have 1.5 brakes when you begin to boil one, not nil, and the bike should have sufficient braking power to get it down below the critical speeds and stop. For those that like to accelerate out of corners and brake for the next one, this is probably just not going to happen, its only going to happen to people that ride the brakes, and they'll feel the lever going softer.boss wrote:
I imagine we would put a fair deal of stress on a disc brake on an extended downhill, and to be honest I'm not sure if I'd rather risk blowing a tyre or losing my brakes all together due to fade. If I could pick I'd probably say lets blow the rear tyre up, haha!
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Re: Shimano Di2 hydraulic road disc brakes spotted
Postby zero » Thu Feb 28, 2013 6:12 pm
its not actually like that on a bike, because its a small amount of water that will boil first, and unless the bottom half of the line was all water (and mine aren't after 7 years!), then you get 1 bubble which can be fully compressed by the lever.barefoot wrote:
Boiled fluid is like a snapped brake cable. It's not like progressively "losing your brakes" on a long hill.
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