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@Emilia
Oh, and bloke this morning on a yellow Dave Russell, crossing TCR into Oxford Street, riding singlespeed and brakeless. I couldn't believe it. When he needed to slow down, he was sticking one leg out behind him and rubbing his shoe against the wheel. He turned off into Soho Square, just as I was on the point of telling him that there's an Evans right there in Rathbone Place, and he really should get some brakes on that thing, pronto.
I spent the rest of the morning thinking whaaaaaaat?
And I'm beginning to wonder - do some people just not get the idea of fixed? I feel pretty comfortable riding brakeless if I don't have a freewheel, but when I try to explain it to a layperson, they still end up looking slightly alarmed (because I'm crap at explaining things). Do you think this guy has somehow missed the point, and assumed that people riding brakeless are even more hardcore/stupid than they actually are, because no one's told him how a fixed wheel works? Hmm?