[basjoos]

I've never had any problems with brakes overheating on the Aerocivic, even on my old commute into the North Carolina mountains. The road descending out of the mountains had a 900 foot drop, had sections steep enough to require dropping into 3rd gear to climb them and had a sharp turnoff halfway down where I had to slow from 65mph down to 10mph to make the turn. Then most of the rest of the descent was that 3rd gear steep grade requiring repeated braking to keep the speed down. Even when making this descent in 95F summer temps, I had no problems with brakes overheating.

And on the Aerocivic, I'm exhausting most of my radiator/engine compartment air out through the front wheel wells, which keeps snow/ice from building up on the rollers in the winter, but which also should aggravate any possible brake overheating problems that might exist in the summer, but so far I haven't seen any.