Scaffolding poles + old VW bits + Rotary engine....

[PhillipM]

Well, first event of the season today at Walters Arena in Wales, fingers crossed.
I'm not there as I had an interview friday and am prepping for a new job.
Feels weird not being at the first race, but if anyone is nearby, spectating is free, you can go update me

[TGCOTF-dewey]

Good luck for the new job!

[PhillipM]

Nice to get something at last, might mean less racing for a while unfortunately for me, but I'll try to keep things updated.

[PhillipM]

You leave them unsupervised for one bloody winter....





DNF, lots of cooked stuff....

[leglessAlex]

Oh lord!

Brake bias all way out of whack?

[PhillipM]

Nah brakes locked on, they were glowing that colour all the way down the straight before that.

Edited by PhillipM on Sunday 24th March 19:20

[PhillipM]

The brake calipers are supposed to be slightly distorted with the seals melted to the body and the anodising a funky purple colour, right?

Also the brake bells resemble pretzels now.

[TGCOTF-dewey]

PhillipM said:

The brake calipers are supposed to be slightly distorted with the seals melted to the body and the anodising a funky purple colour, right?

Also the brake bells resemble pretzels now.

It's amazing how much heat they generate.

I had a faulty pad on a Hope 6 pot MTB brake. The friction material delaminated at about 50 mph two up on an mtb tandem with luggage in the dales. I just thought the noise was that there were hot given the speeds and weight.

The heat generated by the copper on stainless friction was so high that the Ti pistons melted through the pad backing.

That same trip, a mate got the brakes so hot that it boiled the fluid, which blew the hose off - it instantly flashed off to vapour. He just disappeared in his own smoke screen.

The joys of youth and racing your mates .

[PhillipM]

I don't think the shear amount of time they were glowing yellow hot helped either (3 minutes in, sharing it at a timestamp seems borked):

[PhillipM]

And quite a bit further on at the finish:



A lot of respect for those carbotech pads though they kept working apparently