Marinovative and the birth of the V-brake

[drystonepaul]

Nice article explaining the genesis and development of the side pull brake, or what came to be known as the V-brake.

http://www.bikemag.com/news/matter-mari ... stop-lite/

 

[jimo746]

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Interesting, and he never patented it.

 

[ferrus]

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Good stuff ..definitely not the first 'linear pull' brake though, - I think the French might have something to say about that.

 

[sinnerman]

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Keith Bontragers, 87 designed Brake conceived to overcome the rear suspension brake issue, of the Kestrel Nitro full Carbon Full Suspension Bike of 1988.

When I asked him why no Patent, he said if you go back far enough someone has always done it before...

 

[pete_mcc]

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Bontrager 86:

I thought that while the decelerators (which weren't linear brakes) were tubular titanium the cheap tricks (which were his original linear brakes) were originally aluminium sourced from double glazing glass channels:

 

[ferrus]

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So the story goes.. I've never seen any window-frame derived ones though, they've all looked like those above...? (ie machined from billet).

agree that the Decelerators aren't really linear-pull brakes.