Modern automotive disc brake designs share common features. The primary components are a rotor and caliper. The rotor attaches to the wheel hub and rotates at the same speed as the wheel and tire ...

Quick, what American car was first with four-wheel disc brakes? Gotta be the '65 Corvette, right? After all, with Duntov's incessant push to pack the latest technology into GM's fiberglass flagship, ...

One little-known upside of hybrid or electric vehicles—especially those that pile on the miles—is that their brakes last surprisingly long. Thanks to regenerative braking systems, which recapture some ...

Specialized’s SCS (Short Chainstay System) disc brake-equipped bikes, like their popular Crux cyclocross line-up and Diverge gravel bikes, require special wheels for their unique spacing and cassette ...

Reynolds Cycling is offering a bunch of new wheels for cyclocrossers this season, in tubular and clincher form, for rim brakes and disc brakes. While we got an early look at some of the new Reynolds ...

One reason that today's vehicles are the safest in history is that, since 1968, all vehicles come equipped with dual brake systems to ensure that if one set of brakes fails, the other set can still ...

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Ineos Grenadiers recently became the final WorldTour team to adopt disc brake technology on their bikes. This marks the end of an era for rim brakes, which had dominated the cycling industry for ...