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The bike appears to have a device on it which allows it to collide with the bar of the car safely. It appears to me that she collides with it a bunch of times,
by jlebar 8y ago
The bike appears to have a device on it which allows it to collide with the bar of the car safely. It appears to me that she collides with it a bunch of times, both while accelerating and decelerating. This appears to be by design?
Definitely the risk of hitting the side of the fairing seems nontrivial though.
- LanceH 8y agoit's probably not just a bar, but a roller that spins.
- jazzyjackson 8y agoLooks to me like a lever hooked to the brake lines, so if she hits the bar the wheels brake. That's how I would hook it up anyway :)
- ufmace 8y agoDunno what they did to the brakes vs standard bicycle brakes, but I'd be very worried about activating them automatically at ~170mph. With those speeds and the winds, it wouldn't take much to set you tumbling across the ground. I would expect they only brake very carefully and gently until they get the speeds back down some.
- AstralStorm 8y agoAt those speeds, even maximum braking is gentle - the blocks near instantly heat up and lose material. There's a reason why car and motorcycle use heavily cooled and much stiffer as well as more abrasive materials for brakes. You have to be really careful to engage both front and back brakes at the same time though.
- takk309 8y agoHere is a video that Wired released a few days ago that discusses the details of the tow hook and the little bar: https://youtu.be/cZhrqKrljig https://youtu.be/cZhrqKrljig