4000 euro for brakes...

[Pthagonal]

have alook at these

http://www.sicom-brakes.de/html/bremse_vorne.html

The brakes are made from silica-carbon and apparently brake like hell. The brake calipers are made from ceramics. It's a slovenian company (apparently well known in the racing world) which is said to have developed these. The new material avoids the weaknesses of pure carbon fiber brakes which don't function well in cold or wet conditions.

check out the small video clip of them in action

as posted on advrider..

cool

but a bit pricy

pthag

 

[Greg Masters]

I'm sure that this is a beautifully engineered piece of kit - but why bother?

These braking systems work best when they are very hot (speed reduction = transfer of kinetic to thermal energy, heat dissipation is proportional to temperature difference etc) and it is because they can run so hot that they are attractive to race teams where loads of heat has to be dissipated quickly (try half a dozen hot laps of Donington Park in yer average road car and see how long the brakes last!).

I really can't see the point for most road bikes.



Greg

 

[Gecko]

Coould you imagine an emergency stop with them - you would probably dislocate both collar bones as you flew over the handle bars while your bike stopped dead

You don't to go as far as Slovenia for this kind of brake technology. There is a Uk company in Cheshire who supply ceramic brakes to the racing world. They also do aircraft and train brakes. Highly specilized and probanly just as highly priced but a bit closer to home.
For more info : http://www.surface-transforms.com/