Are brakes need on a fixed

i got a langster with a different set of handle bars

should i take the brakes off?

or leave them on

Leave them on.

depends how much you like your life :P

Leave 'em on until you stop needing them. Learn to skid, stop etc so you can ride confidently without ever touching your brakes and then, and only then, consider removing them.

You have to build up your skills and leg strength to go brakeless.

The question about brakes vs brakeless has been debated to death, but pretty much most people will need brakes on their fixed gears cause it really takes skill to ride brakeless 'safely'

brakeless and ride around nth london and crash into tall skinny dudes on fixies with hoodies ;)

this teen_fixie fellow, he seems to ask some silly questions. Almost deliberately silly one might say.

asm this teen_fixie fellow, he seems to ask some silly questions. Almost deliberately silly one might say.

he's obviously a reporter trying to sneak his way into the fixed gear crowd and find out all our dirty secrets and then report back to his boss...then his boss will write a really shit artical on how bad it is riding brakless and that all fixed gear riders are really aliens trying to eat people brains....or something like that

He also seems to talk in Lol cat language all the time...

now look what you done!

Sink this thread right now - it's too opinionated.

Can't have people disagreeing - this forum is above that.

lpg Sink this thread right now - it's too opinionated.

Can't have people disagreeing - this forum is above that.

i disagree

aidan [quote]lpg Sink this thread right now - it's too opinionated.

Can't have people disagreeing - this forum is above that.

i disagree[/quote]

YOU'RE RUINING THIS FORUMS' VIBE WITH YOU'RE CONTRASTING OPINIONS.

LEAVE.

Hey guys, does anyone here not wear a helmet, jump a red light, refuse to believe in global warming, ride brakeless or support a particular political party?

...just wondering.

asm Hey guys, does anyone here not wear a helmet, jump a red light, refuse to believe in global warming, ride brakeless or support a particular political party?

...just wondering.

ha!

just had the other "brakeless" thread sunk yesterday now here goes another one. give these people some better things to do... go out and ride ffs...

its what happens when people dont search discussions

well yeah aidan, but it's the same theory basically. no matter how you get around town / ride your bike / use the forum, a twat is a twat, doesn't matter if you drive a car or not / ride brakeless or not / use search or not.

asm Hey guys, does anyone here not wear a helmet, jump a red light, refuse to believe in global warming, ride brakeless or support a particular political party?

...just wondering.

All of the above.

Does that make me a bad person......?

It does.

Not the old 'does all of the above make me a bad person thread' again...

Is bear shits on a pope?

can we change this discussion into: 'why does my brain stop working when i really need to use it'

Leave them on, it isn't cool to be crippled.