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He hasn't posted his justification, that's the fucking point.
At present all he has given is his personal opinion, under the guise of fact.
He's ignored requests for the calculations and his end product appears to be flawed for a number of reasons.
Without poroof of these apparent facts this is fictitious at best and dangerous at worst as anybody could be reading these pages and assume that this joker is telling the truth.
I am not in any way claiming that it is not possible to ride bikes with weird or out of the ordinary brake set ups. What is wrong is trying to imply that certain setups are better when this would only ever come down to rider ability.
I ride a brakeless BMX.
Brakeless Fixed.
Rear Brake SS.
Fully braked road bike.
I've also ridden pretty much all of the other examples in this thread (Though don't get me started on the fact he talks only about disk, single and dual pivot (What about Linear (Vs), the differences between mech and hydro disks, hydro rims, U calipers, rod brakes, drum brake, coaster brakes and all the other variations of brakes that have ever been available)).
The point isn't that some riders will be able to ride a particualr setup safetly. The point is that some cretin who doesn't know any better may see this list and assume that it's correct. Thereby putting themself at risk as they are on a bike which they are ill equipped to stop.