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Newton's third law and posting emails after a few drinks.

Agreed. But first and foremost a rotary motion.

I don't thimk we are talking about releasing centipetal or centrifugal forces here. The caliper is fixed to the fork, it will, when the front brake is applied try to move the fork (equal and opposite) around the direction of rotaion of the disc - a rotary motion. Not up and down.

The Earth is flat.

A CSE in General Science will only take me so far in life (so apologies if I am miles off course here). Brakes change kinetic energy to heat energy. When applying the front brake, the forks being attached to the head yoke, stop the whole forks rotating forward about the front wheel axle. This is lik...

Correction - opposite to the direction of the disc - but still, not up and down.

As I understand it, according to Newton's third law (equal and opposite reaction), applying the brake wiil attempt to move the caliper in the direction of rotation of the disc...not up and down.

One day, through the primeval wood, A calf walked home, as good calves should; But made a trail all bent askew, A crooked trail as all calves do. Since then three hundred years have fled, And, I infer, the calf is dead. But still he left behind his trail, And thereby hangs my moral tale. The trail w...

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though...

No I'm not. More of a pagan really (reverence for nature).

Solstice Wood There is a spinney on the ridge and I am certain that it was always there. When the winter solstice comes and a red sphere falls behind trees, I like to think I am not entirely alone but that other eyes across time are with me, and show the same pleasure that this is the shortest day, ...