Cooling your brakes
Being from the east coast I've yet to encounter my brakes heating up enough to require pulling over to let them cool down, at least not that I know of. This summer/fall we're doing our first trip out ...
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2oldman wrote:Lynnmor wrote:No it isn't, and perhaps you are, but keeping your brakes cool is of utmost importance. Riding them is a sure road to disaster.
The idea of repeatedly hitting the brakes hard and then coast back up to speed is nonsense. What you are doing is causing the brakes to go thru exaggerated heat/cool cycles.
Brakes are a heat device. There is no way to use brakes and keep them cool. If you want to slow a vehicle with the brakes, then you will generate heat. The quantity of heat will be the same regardless how you play with the pedal. To generate extreme heat for intermittent periods is a sure road to disaster.
