The Ultimate Brakeless/Front/Rear/How many brakes? thread

If you ride A freewheel with only one brake you're a fucking idiot (personal opinion) and you look like one (fact)

of course you could just scrap the whole grake thing and go brakless, or how about carrying a stick to jamb in between front tyre and forks.

cock works better.

What happen if the tarmac's wet? what happen if you went through a patch of gravel? etc. you can't always be sure regardless of how experience you are with your front one.

ok, good point. but then there is no sense at all having just 1 brake when you use freewheel.

Yes but you have no alternative if your front brake breaks.

I couldn't be arsed trawling 100 other brake threads. Find me a nice one.

On a freewheel bicycle two brakes are recommended always.
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Hello,

forgive me if this has been asked many times before, I used the search but did not find a clear conclusion:

If you ride fixed gear in the city/in busy streets, and you want to have only one brake on your bike (apart from your legs, of course), would you put it front or back, and why?
My logic says front, as you have max brake force, and that's also what Sheldon Brown says ("There is really no need for a rear brake on a fixed-gear bicycle."), but during my research here I have seen that some people actually recommend the opposite due to handling reasons (lacking the actual explanation)?

Cheers,
icke

If you ride fixed gear in the city/in busy streets, and you want to have only one brake on your bike (apart from your legs, of course), would you put it front or back, and why?

fixed gear

front.

front and back if you are unsure as you sound.

/thread

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This one will be fine.

I guess I just missed in my "research" that edscoble was talking about freewheel and not fixed, thus the confusion, everything's clear now, thanks.

UTFS
Sheesh - noobs.

20 pages of 'how many brakes' shit. Happy now?

greatly idea

Heh, guess what I found? your reply to a topic asking the same question in 2007;

sidi's and spd's.....;^)

that can't be the whole reason? would be just a matter of getting a good feeling for your front brake

Just fuck off.

fuck the right off!

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Has this been resolved yet?

Yep, his dad paid for everything.

Hold on, let me go and get him to show me his passport.

Hold on, let me go and get him to show me his passport.

What are you on about Ed, this thread's about brakes!

Ed, you need to do some actual brake tests before making any statements that back is better.

I have two brakes and the front will stop me quicker in all conditions (including gravel off road)

there is no sense at all having just 1 brake when you use freewheel.

You said it.

Ed, you need to do some actual brake tests before making any statements that back is better.

Or just read some research that other people have done.

Risk compensation & how it relates to riding brakeless, anyone?

You're a bad man.

Risk compensation & how it relates to riding brakeless, anyone?

With or without a helmet?

If you've only got one brake on a freewheel bike you should never, never lean

if one leans when there is ice and there isn't an ed to spot you, do you still fall?

Does a scoble shit in the forest?