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

My "daily mail" reactive response is that riding brakeless is not a clever thing to do. However if you consider how people risk manage then it is probably the case that brakeless riders will not tend to cycle as fast but by goin more slowly they have more observation time, greater braking time etc.

I am willing to accept that line of argument, though given the fact that chains can and do fail I personally would like the backup of another braking system.

You are assuming people are managing the risk/even really thinking about it. Have they really looked at and analysed likelihood for chain failure, how they would deal with it etc,. or have they just gone with the 'it will probably never happen' approach.

Is that managing risk or just ignoring it. I suppose the ones managing it are the ones that are riding more slowly.
Having to ride more slowly doesn't compute with me :-)