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so the german police are doing a crackdown on brakeless "fixies" in berlin. there's a safe biking check thing going on over the next few weeks. one of the paragraphs from that press release reads (roughly):[INDENT]For the first time the police will have an eye on a special kind of bicycle. They are called "Fixies" or "Singlespeed-Bikes". These minimalist trend-bikes, e.g. ridden by bike-messengers and members of a growing fan-scene are being used more and more in city-traffic. The bicycles, for the purpose of saving weight and conveying a very special "Kick" during fast riding, do not have proper security-measurements, i.e. they lack any sort of brake. Only foresighted riding, and enormous capacity of reaction ought to hinder accidents. The use of such vehicles, which were originally designed to be used for track-bike sports, in road traffic is profoundly dangerous and inevitably bound to health- and live-threatening situations for other road-users as well as the rider. In consequence, police will not only file a complaint against the riders of such fixies, but make insistently clear, that the bicycles will be seized after reoccurring identification.
[/INDENT]don't tell them about the ecmc's! this is incredibly badly informed, and pretty stupid really. does anyone have any stats about braking or no. of fixed gears in accidents vs geared bikes?