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

For riding fixed, I found that no rear brake was tweaking my knees too much and generally made the commute uncomfortable - now with decent stoppers front & back, my knees are much happier....

also they at least give you a chance for the inevitable OSM.

As in Mr Darcy?

http://static.londonfgss.com/attachments/19230d1261392743-_0011566.jpg

yes indeed.

Ok, anyone mind if I throw my two cents in?

That's propostrous.
Though, totally agree with you on the whole thing of physics. F1 cars etc, like you said has the aerodynamics to have efficient stablization... But this is a bicyle.

But no matter how experienced/great you are riding with a front brake only on a freewheel... When there comes a time when it calls for a sudden emergency stop, you will most likely be headbutting whatever is infront of you. Preferrably a pedestrian because that'll look amazing, or a concrete bin that is borrowed in to the ground with cement. Hit that, and you won't know what a bike is anymore.
Like E Honda from Street Fighter.
That would be incredible to see.

Anyhoo, nice explanation. =)

The other day i spoke to guy outside the Old Vic, I called out 'hey your back brake's fallen off' from what i thought was a coverted roadie with freewheel and no back brake. He then backpedalled his Coaster brake and I realised what a prick I am.

So yeah, like skoota says, judge not lest ye look like a complete cunt.

happen to my missus, (coaster-only), BFS* was cycling alongside her and exclaimed that she have no brake to stop (she was coasting) in a very rude and patronising manner.

Naturally being annoyed by his rude manner, she engaged her coaster brake and did a little skid, (you know those little half-arsed skid you do to show off on the Hipster Spice Route) to show him that there is a brake.

the poor sod was somewhat suprised to see a freewheel bicycle with no brake slowing down very quickly, he crashed on the back of a double decker.

is that anyone from here?

*Brakeless fixie skidder.

That was me. I crashed because i were looking at her boobies, though.

lol just came across this, I rode SS with only front brake, no rear. Was great for me, never let me down in any weather. If i really need the back brake, I stick my foot between the rear wheel and frame (dont try this, i wrecked 1 wheel practicing this), it works and is basically a rear brake for me :_)

lol just came across this, I rode SS with only front brake, no rear. Was great for me, never let me down in any weather. If i really need the back brake, I stick my foot between the rear wheel and frame (dont try this, i wrecked 1 wheel practicing this), it works and is basically a rear brake for me :_)

Thank fuck for that, everything is ok, don't worry people, you can still look "cool" like a real fixie skidder, you just need to wreck your wheel! whaheeey!

Thank fuck for that, everything is ok, don't worry people, you can still look "cool" like a real fixie skidder, you just need to wreck your wheel! whaheeey!

lol it only came about because my rear brake f-ed up and i didnt have any spare, it wasnt going to stop me riding and so one thing led to another, but I can safely say I am now a pro at the rear wheel foot brake thingy, I can even skid with it.

;)

That's propostrous.
Though, totally agree with you on the whole thing of physics. F1 cars etc, like you said has the aerodynamics to have efficient stablization... But this is a bicyle.

Not preposterous: Mechanics, its all about the moments.

Not preposterous: Mechanics, its all about the moments.

+1 for the correction in spelling.

Nothing to see here, move on.

sigh

Reeeeeepost - let it die!

First mentioned here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread349.html#post10627

Now let's not speak of this again....

Yeah.. I know I posted that mid-2007.. so MERGE!

Edit: Ha! Thanks for digging that out kam :)

What's the current record for thread merging? This one stands at 4 mins.

I've done faster.. this one took longer since I was considering merging all the "one brake singlespeed" threads too...

Power going to your head?

I reckon you should merge all the popcorn threads and have one massive forum punch up!

fuck off and leave my popcorn thread alone

Power going to your head?

How so? I like a neat forum. Why have 5 threads discussing 1 topic?

The brakless argument is a perfect example of our own H_lm_t or RLJ debate theads that bikeradar get.

fuck off and leave my popcorn thread alone

Bog off and go headbut a car or something

heads off to add this to popcorn thread

I notice Ted-soon-dead was'nt wearing a helmet, and could'nt stop for a light if he wanted to. He needs merging.

(TBH, I only watched on the off chance that somebody opened their car door into the cretin. Meh)

How so? I like a neat forum. Why have 5 threads discussing 1 topic?

The brakless argument is a perfect example of our own H_lm_t or RLJ debate theads that bikeradar get.

so are you a moderator now?

what powers do you have?

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