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SwissChap
Had someone riding his brakeless boardman have a go at me on oxford street for "riding too fast" so pointed out he could also ride fast if he wasn't riding brakeless in the rain and as I have decent brakes I can actually stop. He then went into a rant about the use of brakes being unsafe as "you can't feel your speed" and that he didn't care if he was fined or locked up he would never ride with brakes. I had to pull over and stop to facepalm while making sure to take a different route.