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  5. Near Death Experience

    in Trials Chat

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    Ok, its bad this happened, and no one wants brake failure, at any point.

    2 things I dont get:

    1) How can you convey brake slipping to be the same as brake failure?

    When you go for a gap, you dont quite make it, your brake slips. There is still an amount of friction, and you still remain mostly in control of your bike.

    Same if your brakes just a bit shit, you still slow down, and you can still control yourself.

    How is this in any way the same as failure. You ride, and rely on your brake, it fails, there is no friction, you have no control about whats going to happen, as your not slowing down.

    I have had this experience with rimjams. Got a brand new set, 20 mins after riding them, the pads had cooked, the material whent black and crumbled out of the backing. This happened while I was gapping to the side of a skip, my brake FAILED and I stacked hard.

    My new onza citrus pad slip, they dont seem to lock aswell as previous pads ive owned, I can gap to rails ect, and when they slip, i still have enough time to stick a foot out.

    2) why, when someone has payed good sterling for an set of pads, should it be down to them, after failure, to fix the problem??

    There has been numerous post saying "stop being a twat, stick some iffernt backings on"

    Where is the logic in that? Sure thats a fine thing to do if you require to improve something thats working, but why should it be down to the comsumer to fix a broken product?

    You wouldnt by a new car, sat Ford ST, drove down the road, and the engine blows up. Take it back to the dealer and they say "ah go and stick a merc engine in it, we dont care"

    or "ah its a volvo engine, go complain to them"

    there is a thing called consumer law. It doesnt matter who made what part of a product, the retailer must provide warrenty for said product. And, from my own experience, im sure Tartybikes will .

    So make today that little bit better, stop being so f**king stupid

    Thankyou very much for your support! Finally somebody you gets the deal.. (Y)

  6. Near Death Experience

    in Trials Chat

    Posted

    1: you pad must have been set up soo far away fot you pad to fall out with half the baking still on.

    cheers conor.

    not again....

    If you look at the picture with your EYES and think with your BRAIN you can see it doesn't have to fall out it just slipped backwards cause there where no edges on that plastic piece left to hold it in place.

  9. Near Death Experience

    in Trials Chat

    Posted

    maybe the caliper hit the rim when the pad fell out, that would happen if it was setup close enough.

    to the one above mine

    It didnt... maybe i will have to make a vid about this to show everyone that cant figure out how hydraulic brakes work..

  10. Near Death Experience

    in Trials Chat

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    I don't expect my brake to slip, but it happens and you haven't died. It's not like you were totally brakeless, you said only one pad snapped. This exact problem happened to a friend of mine with some heatsink pads and he didnt rave about almost dieing, the one pad he did still have still rubbed. He was gapping, he fell off, he didn't die. Infact he felt the bike flicking out and jumped off the back. How about we hype up your story some more like your steerer tube snapped while gapping over a 20ft drop.

    I'm not sorry if that sounds like a rant but to be honest, it annoys me when people claim they could of died because of something that's happened to 20 other people.

    How stupid are you? There was no brake pad left on one side. As far as i know from my five years with maguras the piston that moves the easiest will move so when the other pad just lightly hits the other side of the rim the piston left will travel in the air. That means i was TOTALLY BRAKELESS, the lever travelled all the way to the bar as i mentioned above as the pad fell out completly.

    "This exact problem happened to a friend of mine with some heatsink pads and he didnt rave about almost dieing, the one pad he did still have still rubbed."

    This sentence has to be the most stupid ever on trials-forum, how the hell will one pad help when all the power is going to a piston that is moving in the air????? I honestly thought people think before they post something but i guess i'm wrong..

  15. Near Death Experience

    in Trials Chat

    Posted

    Erm... Not really Rock Pads fault as its the backing which has snapped, and i am pretty sure they are power pad backings backings, so really you can't blame the pad manufacturer. When you say near death experience do you mean you had to go to hospital and norrowly avoided death by the work of an exellent doctor? Or do you mean you had a fall and recken if you had fallen from an inch higher you would of died? What exactly happened to make this a "Near Death Experience"?

    Well i pay 18£ and expect my pads to last abit longer. The "death experience" means it could have snapped on anything and i could have landed with my back over a rail or similar, this time i was lucky. You say rockpads aren't responsable for this, i say they are cause they chose what backings they use and these where shit so im still going to blame them as they are reponsible for what they sell in the end.

  17. New Hope Tarty Trial & Tarty Trial Sl Brakes

    in News

    Posted

    So you're paying for an extra logo on the same brake?? Sounds stupid imho, sorry to say that because Tartybikes is a great company and i buy lots of stuff from them but i dont get the deal with a brake called pimped but it only has a extra logo. The sl has all the "out of the box" parts you can buy at most other shops like CRC + logo. <_<

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