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2. Bicycle brake - Wikipedia

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   The caliper brake is a class of cable-actuated brake in which the brake mounts to a single point above the wheel, theoretically allowing the arms to auto-centre on the rim. Arms extend around the tyre and end in brake shoes that press against the rim .

3. Motorcycle braking systems - Wikipedia

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   The design only allowed for a single front disc brake so a comparatively large 330 mm disc was mated to a six-piston caliper, a world first on a production bike. [9]: 28 The traditional axial caliper mount began to be unreliable when slick tires were introduced, so motorcycles began adopting radially mounted calipers from Formula One car racing.

4. Shimano - Wikipedia

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   Servo Wave appeared for the first time on a hydraulic disk brake lever on the 2008 Shimano XT groupset. SLR ("Shimano Linear Response") Shimano 600 Tricolor brake caliper (Shimano Ultegra 6400) Integration of a return spring into the brake lever, pushing the brake cable back when the lever is released. The idea behind this was that the return ...

5. Shimano Total Integration - Wikipedia

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   Shimano STI Dual Control shifter and brake lever: 1. Main lever 2. Release lever A. Pulling the main lever towards the rider applies the brake B. Pushing the main lever towards the center of the bike downshifts one, two or three gears depending on how far the lever is pushed (right hand shifter) or changes from a small chainring to a larger chainring (left hand shifter)

6. File:Shimano STI Diagram.svg - Wikipedia

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7. Vernier scale - Wikipedia

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   So for a vernier with a constant of 0.1, each mark on the vernier is spaced 9/10 of those on the main scale. If you put the two scales together with zero points aligned, the first mark on the vernier scale is 1/10 short of the first main scale mark, the second is 2/10 short, and so on up to the ninth mark, which is misaligned by 9/10.