Citation

Mortimer RG. Int. J. Veh. Des. 1988; 9(4-5): 505-511.

Affiliation

Univ of Illinois, Champaign, IL, USA

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Inderscience Publishers)

DOI

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Abstract

The results of three studies are described in which motorcyclist rode motorcycles equipped with separated front and rear brakes and with integrated brakes, and carried out braking tests from 40.3 km/h on dry and wet pavements. It was found that integrated front and rear brakes, compared with separated brakes, produced mean increases in deceleration of 30-70% on dry pavements and 27-55% on wet pavements. It was concluded that, because accident investigations have shown that motorcyclists only use the front brake with the rear brake about half the time and often modulate the brakes ineffectively, a substantial proportion of motorcycle crashes could be reduced in severity by the use of integrated brakes.

Language: en