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I've ridden brakeless, and I've ridden in the mountains.

I'm not keen to combine the two, for a multitude of reasons.

One stands out though- if you've just spent 1-2 hours climbing 2,000 metres up then surely going back down the other side, freewheeling at 80-100Km/h is your reward?

This.

Even with two mechanical brakes on a fixed wheel bicycle, descending the Pyrenees was really agonising, especially when you couldn't put your weight on the pedals as you would on a freewheel bicycle, thus hand and arse have taken quite a beaten.

Still, the only reward I got was that I actually rode a fixed wheel down the pyrenees.