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I mean I understand where he was coming from. All the more if I was riding like a dick (I believe I wasn't!) but I think that it was all a bit unnecessary.
I'm going to change the forks on my parallax, chuck on a bigger gear (47/15 rather than 47/17), mudguards and lastly a front brake tonight.
I'm just going to ride my road bike for a while.
I hope that this isn't foresight into what could be coming.
ekudduke
This morning's commute. Very heavy traffic made all the more difficult as I was transporting a wheelset on my backpack.. Also made slightly more difficult by another cyclist. Left the house in high spirits, so when he overtook me on my left saying "You need a front brake" to which I agree that I need one in order for my bike to be Road legal, I replied "thank you".
But what I don't understand was the need to flag down a police car and telling him I was riding sans brakes. The officer couldn't understand how I managed to stop when he flagged me down. After a 5 minute conversation explaining etc, he said verbatim "I don't really care (assuming he's talking about the situation and not cyclists/cycling), if you crash, its on you" which I agreed with. Is cyclists flagging down other brakeless riders a thing now?