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Date:         5 May 1995 09:50:06 U
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From:         "Norman Leong" <norman_leong@Baynetworks.COM>
Subject:      Re:  Best Vanaogon Brake Pad

John Anderson comments that:

>were from though. Oh BTW all VW brakes squeak, I read an artical >written by a VW engineer who said they could never understand what >Americans had against a little break noise and had given up trying >to silence their brake systems, I've never noticed the problem being

I read that same article, and if I recall right, he said something to the effect of:

"What do you want, brakes that are quiet, or brakes that STOP you?!"

As an aside, Campagnolo, an Italian bicycle comp./wheel manufacturer, once considered brakes as tools for speed modulation, and therefore never paid anyone any mind regarding stopping power/distance (of course, it helped that they had the best braking system by any definition at the time...)

Norman norman_leong@Baynetworks.COM.


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