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@Khornight2
Yup, I had one and ran brake on it, stopped just as fast as with a machined rim. Have heard other people get bad squeaking from brakes on unmachined rims, but I had no such problem... Fairly quickly the brake rubs the top layer off and it effectively becomes machined anyway.