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  • AQA - any questions answered - OK, here's a question from the dopey looking kid at the back of the class...!

    I really enjoy reading a lot of the various projects that people here build and then go on to ride. There's a thread right now I'm following where a fella is building up a track bike from one of those eBay Carbon frames and another poster asked if it's possibly to drill the forks.

    What this dopey kid wants to know is (Ok its me...cos I don't know anyone that races bikes to ask this very question) is... why don't track bikes have brakes? I said he was dopey didn't I :)

    Ta!

  • why don't track bikes have brakes?

    Because slowing down suddenly is dangerous when everyone's riding so closely, the gaps close up in the reaction time.

    Also, brakes would risk losing traction.

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