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Why should another cyclist ignore you riding in an illegal manner. Because they ride a bike too they should be complicit and accepting? You're quite naive if you think riding brakeless is regarded as socially acceptable at the moment.
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Socially acceptable in some circles.
Also I never stated that he should just mind his own business, just that it was unnecessary for him to be riding like a dick, and then to flag a police car. He literally went out of his way.To remedy this I'm just not going to ride my track bikes for a while, and when I do I'll just have a front brake.
If the Alliston incident didn't happen, would this even be as big of a discussion?
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Do you not think there's more productive ways to tell someone than whilst you're undertaking, on your way over to the old bill to dob them in though?
ekudduke
PhilDAS
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?