CT Article re Braking Distances

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Interesting numbers.

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/understanding-stopping-distance?pid=5896688c66c37964788b6b02&uhe=2b2d61e8d5b1e866b9b0a3e36a6027fb&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04/19/2025_CommonTread_Generic_CommonTread_Campaign&utm_term=Common%20Tread%20%7C%20Combined

 

[GreyGhost]

Interesting numbers.

https://www.revzilla.com/common-tread/understanding-stopping-distance?pid=5896688c66c37964788b6b02&uhe=2b2d61e8d5b1e866b9b0a3e36a6027fb&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=04/19/2025_CommonTread_Generic_CommonTread_Campaign&utm_term=Common%20Tread%20%7C%20Combined

Good description of bikes. Disappointing that they didn't include cages. A typical car gets 0.6-0.8G. A typical sports car gets up to 1.3G which is a big problem if you are a bike behind. Even with ABS, max effort braking at the same time as an emergency lane change is a hell of a pucker moment.

 

[NuggyBuggy]

using an average one-second reaction time and the more typical 0.6 g braking, the stopping distance from 65 mph becomes 330 feet, and from 110 mph it's a whopping 835 feet.

To put that in perspective, at 65mph you need the length of one Canadian football field to stop.

At 110mph, it's about 2-1/2 football fields.

That is ... insane.

 

[MCT]

When you lay down a long faint black line with the front wheel without locking, you are braking hard.

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