Is it..

bad form to put an aerospoke on the front with a brake?

i think it defies the point somehow,
the reason i ask is that i ride with a front brake and want to put an aerospoke on.. but i'm battling myself.

apologies for the hipster thread just looking for some opinion.

its you're bike. do what you like...

Post a poll. Go with what's most popular and consider yourself a "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion"!

its you're bike. do what you like...

thats pretty much my thought, but i just think it looks funny with a brake and was looking for agreement (probably to steer me away from purchasing).

Fuck that, do it, I got an Aerospoke on the front with a brake (it doesn't get much action) but fuck it, just do whatever.

contact asm for some much needed professional advice - he is the uk importer of spoks. his number is in private thread. only phone between 2 and 4 am uk time though as his office is in shanghai.

bad form to put an aerospoke...

Yes.

I have taken an order of aerospokes with built in brakes recently.

Well I say brake, it's just a 6th spoke with aerospoke written on it, which rests in a little clip on your bars. You just shove it into your wheel when you need to stop - works every time.

On a serious note, I'm about to run a shimano sora brake on my painted aerospoke to keep my mum happy while I visit her at home. I really hope I don't actually need to use it as it will thoroughly ruin the paint.

billybob: run a spok with a brake, plenty of people do it. there's no technical reason why you shouldn't. Other than if it's a one with the braking surface painted, and even then it's a purely aesthetic reason.

In fact, spoks are so good at maintaining momentum (due to weighing more than any other component on any given bike), having a brake might not be a bad idea, as it'll help counter the longer stopping distances this results in. (duh.)

hub brake Arrospoke ftw. Clean lines and safety.....

cheers for the info guys,
my mind has been put at ease and i'm going to go ahead with the purchase.

NO Arrospoke ftw. Clean lines and safety.....

fixed.

cheers for the info guys,
my mind has been put at ease and i'm going to go ahead with the purchase.

Please bear in mind it's an absolutely shit wheel... Useless on the track and really heavy on the street... Having said that, I love mine...

Please bear in mind it's an absolutely shit wheel... Useless on the track and really heavy on the street... Having said that, I love mine...

A big +1 to that. You will have a day or so of desperate remorse, and will regularly feel the urge to check to see if the brake is catching or if the hub is spinning smoothly or if the tire is flat, because you will simply not believe that a bicycle wheel could cause that much resistance in the 21st century.

You will go on to curse the fact that it isn't perfectly true, and will thoroughly fume when it begins to wobble RIDICULOUSLY at high speeds while cornering, and finally, you'll lovingly re-arrange the letters on the logo to spell something funny, and will ride the damn thing every day with a smile on your face, safe in the knowledge that 99% of the people who see you won't care about your bike at all, and that 99% of the 1% will laugh at your aerodynamically inferior component. the 0.01% accounts for blind people.

Please bear in mind it's an absolutely shit wheel... Useless on
the track and really heavy on the street... Having said that, I love mine...

Looks cool > weight and performance.