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Ed; serious question, have you had cycle training yourself?
As for anticipating the unexpected; I see what you mean, a car door opening would be unexpected but you can anticipate that it *might *happen and ride accordingly. But then what about a snapped chain; it would be unexpected, you can think that it might happen but what can you do about stopping safely if you have no front brake? There are always people on here - yourself prominent among them - telling single speeders to have front and rear brakes just in case their front brake cable snaps; the unexpected, I suppose. Broken cable, snapped chain, is there that much of a difference in how unexpected they are?