Brakeless riding in Birmingham?

Pastry get off your high horse dude, I ride all day everyday round town at ridculous speeds delivering and picking up stuff, I can stop on a dime if I have to
Oh, wow, really? Wow, amazing, I've never rode all day every day around town delivering stuff before, that must make you a really superior cyclist to everyone else.

Don't make me laugh, I know for a fact that you ride below 30mph for the vast majority of the time, and I wouldn't call that 'ridiculous speeds'. Unless you meant ridiculously slow.

And as for stopping on a dime: no, actually, you can't - at least not in the real world. In the real world - the world that most of us live in - *you *have to backpedal and skip and skid before you can stop. Because you don't have a front brake.