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

I think you are right.....different rules for bikes being sold to bokes being ridden...

all bikes sold (except competition) should be fitted with a bell....yet it's not a legal requirement to ride with one...for example.

wouldn't it be funny if it was a legal requirement to have a bell on all bikes (new or old). There'd be a huge market for cool bells all of a sudden. Or Ti or CF bells!

tallsam wouldn't it be funny if it was a legal requirement to have a bell on all bikes (new or old). There'd be a huge market for cool bells all of a sudden. Or Ti or CF bells!

It is a legal requirement for a bell to be fixed to all new bikes sold.

wheels [quote]tallsam wouldn't it be funny if it was a legal requirement to have a bell on all bikes (new or old). There'd be a huge market for cool bells all of a sudden. Or Ti or CF bells!

It is a legal requirement for a bell to be fixed to all new bikes sold.[/quote]

I know.

tallsam wouldn't it be funny if it was a legal requirement to have a bell on all bikes (new or old).

Whoops !

note to self: read the thread before posting !!

:)

wheels [quote]tallsam wouldn't it be funny if it was a legal requirement to have a bell on all bikes (new or old). There'd be a huge market for cool bells all of a sudden. Or Ti or CF bells!

It is a legal requirement for a bell to be fixed to all new bikes sold.[/quote]

it's not all new bikes sold, competition bikes and custom bike intended for competition are exempt.

Hey Winston isnt the penny-farthing the ultimate fixed-wheel bicycle?
I feel an article coming on!!!
(what's a boke?)

overdrive Hey Winston isnt the penny-farthing the ultimate fixed-wheel bicycle?
I feel an article coming on!!!
(what's a boke?)

Someone call Alice Fisher.

Please someone start couriering on a penny farthing. Hopefully the hipsters will follow suit. Its what the world needs!

:)

you can get new peny farthings...can't remember who makes them, but I have seen them.

mt spelling is wxcellent my typing is shit.

There was a woman riding one at a Critical Mass last year. It was massive

winston you can get new peny farthings...can't remember who makes them, but I have seen them.

mt spelling is wxcellent my typing is shit.

There is a guy in the states making free wheel penny farthings, i have seen one and it is wrong

Ted shred would be all over them.

chris crash [quote]winston you can get new peny farthings...can't remember who makes them, but I have seen them.

mt spelling is wxcellent my typing is shit.

There is a guy in the states making free wheel penny farthings, i have seen one and it is wrong[/quote]

and here they are.

Not keen.

Two brakes and direct drive.
Safenger.

P-chopped this for bikeforums once. Guy got annoyed. Hope he wont see it here....
Nathan Fabian eat your heart out.

is that a deep v?

looks like it's even complete with the rim label!

Yup, that was somone elses p-chop.

Corporate Amerikkka endorsing the brakeless? Weird... An IRO too...
http://johnprolly.blogspot.com/2008/03/green-green-green.html

Im building up a singlespeed with a fixed/free hub, cant decide whether to have the brake on the front or the back. Is there any obvious disadvantages to either?

no, you put both on a singlespeed, and a front brake on a fixed.

If its ss- both.
if fixed front (70% braking power)
you HAVE to have 2 brakes.

fsck, beaten.

front. is about 70-80 percent of your stopping power. back isn't all that necessary, just don't have the brake set too close to the rim so that there is still some variability in the pressure you can apply and you're all good. or run both to be on the safe side and all problems as sorted.

i'm too slow...

to be honest, if you have to ask this question, you might be better getting the bus.

no offence taken