The age-old question has been asked more and more lately. What defines a Fighter? Well, depending how many people you ask, you’ll typically get that many different answers. We’ll get the obvious out of the way. Sport oriented motorcycle removed of anything unnecessary to its function. Typically stripped of most bodywork, fitted with higher rise handlebars, smaller, lighter parts to reduce weight and as much performance mods as available to make it wicked fast. So now that we have the basic idea in our head, I’d like to expand on this view of how fighters are perceived around the world.  Let’s start with the motherland of Streetfighters. The grand old U.K. Home to Big Ben, Fish and Chips, Teatime and the Queen Mum. Some will argue it started back in the ’50’s with the Café racer. Some say true fighters begin in the early ’80’s with the bike messengers fighting London traffic and marring their fairings. Bike messengers don’t exactly make grand salaries so instead of replacing their war torn bodywork, they simply removed them.

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Demonstrating the brake system's efficiency on a 'cruiser bike', the team validated the system's reliability using mathematical calculations that are also used for aircraft or chemical function control systems. The sender is found within a blue plastic box whose size is similar to that of a pack of cigarettes and is attached to the handlebar.   Unlike a conventional bike, the team compares the cruiser bike to that of an Easy Rider motorcycle without an engine block. What sets this latest system apart, however, is the lack of a protruding brake lever to control the front brake. That's a fact that's based on a technological background,' comments Professor Holger Hermanns of Saarland University, who developed the wireless bicycle brake system in cooperation with his team. But what interests scientists most is developing wireless systems with non-stop functioning features, just like a typical bicycle brake.   'The wireless bicycle brake gives us the necessary playground to optimise these methods for operation in much more complex systems,' explains Professor Hermanns.   A user must clench the rubber grip on the right handle in order to bring the bike to a full stop. a recent addition to this trend is a wireless bicycle brake developed by computer scientists at Saarland University in Germany. The receiver forwards the signal to an actuator, converting the radio signal into the mechanical power that kick-starts the disk brake. The scientists thus chose to investigate the brake...

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