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Yeah but surely not having a brake is only to see how far you can push the limit? Because otherwise everyone would have brakes, helmets, leathers, and roll around in a gigantic ball of foam. Everyone wants to be safe, but everyone pushes looking cool as far as they can whilst still being safe. I know that a safer helmet would be a gigantic lump of polystyrene, but that would look stupid, so I don't wear that.
The Ferrari thing was a bit far to compare, I see that now. As obviously a pedal powered bike is not a Ferrari on a track.