New Brake Design Idea

[Freshbakedbread]

Everyone hates pre releases, when landing switch. Last year i had to buy 4 new brakes because they were constantly breaking, Some might say, set your Dins higher, but when trying new tricks, you dont wana get your leg yanked around, So I was thinking why dont they make a brake with hinged breaks. The hinges would be made stiff enough to stop the ski when it's moving foreward, and loose enough to come undone when you land switch and pre release, this wouldn't be hard to make and would save so many people the hastle of buying new breaks.

 

[McLeod]

how would your skis stop when you eject landing switch?

 

[n8myton]

As it is if they break off they're not going to stop the ski for you, so what's the difference.

 

[B-runge]

how bout not?

 

[stuff]

It takes some time to bend them like that, but it works:

 

[Freshbakedbread]

the difference is that, you can pop them back into place, instead of buying new ones, and the breaks wouldnt stop the ski when you release going backwards, unless you can give it enough downward pressure so that even if they pop out, they can stop the ski.

 

[bobs]

What you just described is my senior capstone qualifying project for college a group of us are doing next year. We're working on a brake (probably with hinges) that undergoes the same forces and momentums under switch and forward falls. Naturally i hope it goes somewhere, but we are just college students after all.

 

[ShrdGnar]

fight the good fight

 

[shintastic48]

Word with Look on the desing. I'd like my Pivots and FKS to have that.

 

[PhuzzyWuzzy]

I like!

 

[schillz33]

Well you could still potentially make the brakes work if you simply added a stopper backed with springs to catch the brakes when they flip around. This would stop the brakes and hold them steady, which would at least slow the ski down, and if the rider landed on the ski then the springs would recoil and not crush the brakes.

This may need to be a spring loaded system so that the stoppers are not hanging too close to the edges of the ski (causing drag on the snow) but they would pop out when the ski flipped.

An easier way would be to modify the brake so that it was this shape > and that way when the brake flipped the V tip would push against the spring. This saves you from the whole springloaded system.

IDK just throwin out ideas. PM me if you want me to explain better.

 

[Freshbakedbread]

Right on! let me know how it works! glad theres someone out there working on it. Ill buy a pair!