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Original User Guide | Groove Go pedelec Version 1 US-25
3.6.2 Braking
WARNING
Make sure that your hands can reach and squeeze the brake levers
comfortably. If your hands are too small to operate the levers
comfortably, consult your dealer before riding the bike. The lever
reach may be adjustable; or you may need a dierent brake lever
design.
The shorter the brake lever reaches, the more critical it is to have
correctly adjusted brakes, so that full braking power can be applied
within available brake lever travel. Brake lever travel insucient to
apply full braking power can result in loss of control, which may result
in serious injury or death.
To make sure that you have maximum friction available, keep your
wheel rims and brake pads or the disk rotor and caliper clean and free
of dirt, lubricants, waxes or polishes. The braking action of a bike is a
function of the friction between the braking surfaces.
3.6.2.1 Learning how to brake
WARNING
Practice braking and weight transfer techniques where there is no
tracorotherhazardsanddistractions.
Learn which brake lever controls which bike
It’s very important to your safety that you learn and remember which brake
lever controls which brake on your bike. Traditionally, in the U.S. the right
brake lever controls the rear brake and the left brake lever controls the
front brake; but, to check how your bike’s brakes are set up, squeeze one
brake lever and look to see which brake, front or rear, engages. Now do the
same with the other brake lever. Two keys to eective speed control and
safe stopping are controlling wheel lockup and weight transfer.
Learn to practice slowing and stopping smoothly
Brakes are designed to control your speed, not just to stop the bike.
Maximum braking force for each wheel occurs at the point just before the
wheel “locks up” (stops rotating) and starts to skid. Once the tire skids,
you actually lose most of your stopping force and all directional control.
You need to practice slowing and stopping smoothly without locking up
a wheel. The technique is called progressive brake modulation. Instead
of jerking the brake lever to the position where you think you’ll generate
appropriate braking force, squeeze the lever, progressively increasing
the braking force. If you feel the wheel begin to lock up, release pressure
just a little to keep the wheel rotating just short of lockup. It’s important
to develop a feel for the amount of brake lever pressure required for each
wheel at dierent speeds and on dierent surfaces. To better understand
this, experiment a little by walking your bike and applying dierent
amounts of pressure to each brake lever, until the wheel locks.
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