Re: brakes and lonnnng downhills (longish)

[Chris Newbold <cnewbold@transarc.com>]

Chris Newbold wrote:

> I'm going to bet that Phil had (close to) equal hydraulic pressure available
> at all four corners (because of the weight and the automatic bias valve)
> and so generated roughly equal amounts of heat at all four corners. The
> rear wheels were hotter at the end due to a relative lack of airflow
> compared to the front and smaller/lighter/not ventilated rotors (resulting
> in more heat transfer to the wheel than in front).

The other obvious cause I neglected to mention would be that the rear
brakes were applied for a longer duration than the front brakes: due
to sticky calipers or such at the rear.

-Chris