The thumb brake works quite well. It is not a powerful as the hand brakes, but if definitely slows you down. Surprised it did not make a comeback with the disc brakes being used on tt bikes nowadays.
I suppose it would make modern tt bikes an even bigger headache to set up and adjust
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The thumb brake works quite well. It is not a powerful as the hand brakes, but if definitely slows you down. Surprised it did not make a comeback with the disc brakes being used on tt bikes nowadays.