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From: schwager@uiucdcs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.bicycle
Subject: Re: Mountain Bikes
Message-ID: <38200017@uiucdcs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Sep-84 10:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 13 10:05:00 1984
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Nf-From: uiucdcs!schwager    Sep 13 09:05:00 1984

> 
>      What I really like about mountain bikes is that they have decent brakes.
> Brakes have always been the weak point of the modern bicycle, and those
> big cantilevers feel nice.

Hmmm... what kind of bike have you been riding?  Maybe it's not the brakes
themselves that are giving better performance, but the tires.  I know I can
put my bike into a two wheel skid any time I please.  Not that that is a 
measure of good braking ability.  What one should really look for in a 
brake is control.  That enables you to stop quickly in a panic situation
without all of the sudden having the front brake grab, and you go flying
headfirst over the handlebars.
-mike schwager (...ihnp4!uiucdcs!schwager)