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

I almost got taken out by some tragic 30+ blonde-bobbed, RayBan wearing female hipster on Clerkenwell Road yesterday, was going up the inside of traffic on my polo bike and she decides to overtake me just as I'm passing a lorry... No space left for me at all so I slammed on the anchors and missed her by about an inch... I tore a strip off her, felt a bit sorry for her in the end... She apologised profusely... She left me no way out tho', it was either kerb or the back of a lorry at nearly 20mph*... :[

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Fucking hell! I didn't know you could walk that fast!