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

thanks Tiswas, the point of this was to got straight to the point, rather than for it to come up several pages of comments later.

With more and more people getting on brakeless bikes sooner and sooner, without the understanding that if they were in an incident they would have very little in the form of the law and rights on their side.

What if the worst happened and you couldn't use your legs after an accident that wasn't your fault but due to the court noting that you had an illegal bicycle on the road you are unable to receive any compensation from the drivers insurance...

Its a horrid and harsh point but people have to know what they are getting into. Dont they?

ive never ran a brake on a fixed gear, i pretty much went from a brakeless bmx (with a free wheel obv) to a brakeless fixed wheel. no problems at all bacause i was used to the old foot in the back wheel trick before i had learned to effectivly skid stop.

i think its pretty funny when you see someone on there new fixie with no breaks or foot retention and how their expression changes when they get to a cross roads and realise they cant do that skiddy stop thing that those guys they saw on youtube can do.