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@Richard_Cheese
Pip's post reflects things I've noticed recently; like edmundane my fear is that someone who is worrying more about what they look like than whether they're alive or not will come to a sticky end and that the rest of us will feel the consequences.
I ride with a brake, and I'm all for some riding brakeless, but all in all there is fuck all you can do to stop people ripping their brakes off cos they think its the way.
Personally I would like to see all riders, brakeless or not, strongly encouraging the newengers to stick with brakes for a while - encouraging them to the degree of saying that to ride brakeless on your first experience of fixed is for fools (whether its true or not). Just to be safe like, and more importantly, so the rest of us don't get slandered/regulated by the usual twats.
Oh sorry for stringing the thread out even more, i promise i tried to stay above the level of brake vs. brakeless