Silent Brakes

[Heatsink]

Here's a new idea to throw into the mix:

If there is a certain amount of energy that is dissipated in a brake block when you lock the wheel, it could be that the higher the proportion lost as noise would mean that less would be lost as heat.

Pad wear could be linked to the heat build up.....so encourage your brakes to be loud if you want to maximise their longevity!

Whether or not the amount of energy lost as sound is significant, I haven't tried to calculate, but nevertheless another thing worth considering!

Steve

[Waynio]

thats deffinatly very well put steve and you can probably see how it does work.

im going to make mine start sounding like a air horn!!!!! and make it play tunes (Y)

Waynio.......................

it deffinatly makes sense to me that the louder it is you know that the brake is working, like when my brake has "whooshed" as people call it i can feel a bit of in security in my brake. with the last few sets of heatsink pads iv been using i havent come across them whoosing its deffinatly a piercing noise you get out of them.... which to me is quite positive

[AdamR28]

Pad wear could be linked to the heat build up.....

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Pad wear is DEFINITELY linked to heat, in fact I've been told its pretty much the only method in which brake pad material wears.

[cookie456_the2nd]

On my old frame i found that when i put my 4 bolt booster on it reduced the noise.

Could it be linked too the vibration going through the frame or something like that and making funny noises?

[AdamR28]

Yeah, dampening the vibrations also helps to reduce noise.