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

oh god

where is the dead yummy mummy image when I need it

Islington necrophiliac

what about brakless and mudguards. oohh er missus!

Caitlin Moran makes me lol. I <3 her.

There. I've said it.

Several of you. DTM.

Is there something we should know about Snowy's past life and his relationship with young Caitlin, once of Wolverhampton?

I don't leave the house without a 2 calipers, 2 disk brakes, rear fixed and customised handbrake for my roadsafe whip
I cannot help with this article

it's all about the bar spinzzzz baby!

I'm writing an article for the Guardian which will no doubt get me in a lot of trouble here. It will be on whether brakeless fixed gear bikes are safe.

I'll be contacting the Met and the CTC. Does anyone know of any other organisations that have waded in on the issue? I know that Germany and Australia are particularly cracking down on it at the moment.

Anyone have anything they want to say on the matter?

massive yawn

OK, you can all laugh at me for being gullible, but seriously am I to believe that there are people out there running brakeless freewheel? Surely my pud is being pulled?

Caitlin was fucking annoying.
that lady gaga bit was alright.

busted, just can't get enough of those warm organic corpses =0

Islington necrophiliac

OK, you can all laugh at me for being gullible, but seriously am I to believe that there are people out there running brakeless freewheel? Surely my pud is being pulled?

No, well apart from BMXers - no doubt there are some other tools doing it, but you will most likely find them in A & E

Riding fixed, gives you at least 1 brake. Old dutch bikes often only have 1 brake. In NL they rarely use helmets.

be a good idea sparky boy to put that in your counter-argument section, and some lovely stats to go with it.

Does riding semi-brakeless make you taller..?

seriously OP, the nub of the issue comes down to how effective braking with you legs only is compared with standard front and rear calipers / cantilevers or whatever you want to use as a typically deemed road worthy set of brakes.
if you cant resolve that issue there is little point writing your article as it will only repeat the countless partisan and mostly speculative arguments that have been rehearsed a million times here and elsewhere - doing so would only I imagine further alienate an already sceptical non cycling population.

busted, just can't get enough of those warm organic corpses =0

nom nom

vom vom

seriously OP, the nub of the issue comes down to how effective braking with you legs only is compared with standard front and rear calipers / cantilevers or whatever you want to use as a typically deemed road worthy set of brakes.
if you cant resolve that issue there is little point writing your article as it will only repeat the countless partisan and mostly speculative arguments that have been rehearsed a million times here and elsewhere - doing so would only I imagine further alienate an already sceptical non cycling population.

So what you're saying is that he should write an article about whatever, take the money and prepare for a shitstorm of people making the same arguments over and over again.

I'll take a brakeless track bike on 75gi or lower over a BSO anyday.

OK, you can all laugh at me for being gullible, but seriously am I to believe that there are people out there running brakeless freewheel? Surely my pud is being pulled?

I saw a 70 year old man in Cuba doing this and heaped as much disdain upon him as I could for his lack of consideration for both his safety and that of his comrades. Unfortunately he couldn't stop to appreciate the finer points of my polemic, and I have a sneaking suspicion he didn't really give a fuck anyway, as his demeanour and the steely glint in his eye distinctly told be that he was of a belief that brakes were un-communist and a bourgeois innovation designed to suppress the masses and keep the rich industrialist brake manufacturers in power.

Perhaps he is still rolling along, unable to stop in his quest to demonstrate the sheer inefficiency and corrupt excesses of Western stopping mechanisms to his Communist brethren. As much as I despise such callous disregard for our western public health and safety regulations I couldn't help but admire his determination and skill by the way in which he was able to communicate so much through the graceful motion of his pedals, the grimy colour of his wife-beater and the insouciant click-click-click of his oil starved freewheel...

@ sparky, if i get pulled as a result of this article, i am gonna kick you in da ballz. After i ride straight into your bent over arsehole

@ sparky, if i get pulled as a result of this article, i am gonna kick you in da ballz. After i ride straight into your bent over arsehole having failed to stop in time

fixed

Yes, i am riding fixed,
And with a big run-up!

carson repped

not that murtz has ever failed to stop or that a brake might have decreased his stopping distance

(DJ ducks and covers his arse from the bum rape that mumbles has already threatened sprakless with)

I'm writing an article for the Guardian which will no doubt get me in a lot of trouble here.

Really?

most of the brakeless riders i see plod along in a twiddly gear going nowhere fast. they look really trendy though i wish i was that cool.

Platini, I think he means The Manchester Guardian or whatever it is called these days.