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@mashton
So, first of all, I have a nasty accident that wouldn't have been anywhere near so bad without a front brake and then: I go to hospital this morning for my 7 week x-ray and physio when I come out, some fucking numpty has looped his cable lock between my front brake cable and my handlebars / frame.
I go kind of mad with rage for a minute and want to kick the shit out of the appaling welds on his Marin, but then get out my tools, remove the brake cable from the brake and then reattach it all. In the rpocess I jab my thumb, with the end of a piece of wire, which begins to bleed and realise that I could have just undone my stem clamp. Fuck.
All sorted now, but it is beginning to look like having a front brake is a liability.