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

Random outburst lol....

Yeah.. this forum is doing my head in. Stupid fucking threads everywhere. I can't be fucked writing proper explanations to shit any more so..

tourettes posting it is!

cockballarseflaps!

A friend of a friend once touched his front brake lever while going at 3mph and it flung him across the road and into his neighbours front window.

My mate once eliminated a whole species of bird (the Dodo I believe) when he destroyed the island they inhabited when accidentally using his front brake.

I broke the large hadron collider last year when I used my front brake.

A friend of mine once touched my front brake lever while walking at 3mph, so I flung him across the road and into his neighbours front window.

Fixed :p.

My mate once eliminated a whole species of bird (the Dodo I believe) when he destroyed the island they inhabited when accidentally using his front brake.

Oh flaps, tea/keyboard interface, again.

I once nearly hit 88mph, but then decided it was too close to dinner time to be travelling back to the future...

I once hit 88mph, I left a flaming skidmark.

Cool I always wondered what it would be like, I backed off at 86/87mph.

In all honesty, I don't think bmx racers or downhill riders give a shit about safety or crashing; if they did, they're in the wrong profession. They're main aim is speed, and lots of it. The run out at the end of the course is where you slow down, much like a toboggan run, or a runway etc etc

I wouldn't bother wasting time worrying or critiquing other bike setups, afterall it's just a bike, and who is anyone to tell someone how to set it up or indeed ride it.

Dangerous cyclists make cycling more fun anyways so fuck it

I'lld happily ride a SS with only a front brake, unless there was a huge mountain descent, or there was ice on the road.
The trick is, being able to use the front brake without going over the bars. Any good rider will be able to brake (front) and steer at the same time ( and stop more efficiently than if they only had a back)
Front brake FTW, it's not rocket science, just basic physics.

+1

Totally agree ............... most of my PERSONAL setups are front brake only and I have never launched myself over the bars or crashed into cars or vans.

well said FRUITBAT

I now ride fixed but i used to ride s/s front brake. I did so for years on many different bikes, bmx, road, mtb and with cantilevers, v brakes, and disc brakes and:

BLAH BLAH BLAH etc etc on the front wheel.

This set up may be indicative nowadays of a certain type of rider - wannabe who doesn't have the skills/desire to commit to riding fixed and who doesn't have proper control of their bike - but please don't tar everyone that has a bike set up like this with the same brush.

Well said ................... + 100

I broke the large hadron collider last year when I used my front brake.

luckily i fixed it with my rear brake skillz

I don't wanna get dragged into this thread more because it smacks of narrowmindedness and stubbornness from people who are commenting on things they have no experience of so all im going to say that it's ridculous, nay, pathetic that the debate over whether a rear brake in needed on a s/s attracts so much more heated debate that whether a hand brake is required on a fixed bike when the 2 issues really are the same thing.
It seems that certain people think that riding fixed makes them cool and i think these people find all other cyclists a threat to their coolness and exclusivity, especially when these cyclists are riding bikes which appear very similar to their own - obviously more 'hardcore' fixed - bikes.
These people need to get a fucking life, you don't own the look or style of bike and arguing about setups like this would be like arguing that female peds who walk around in high heels are more irresponsible that those wearing flat shoes, riding a bike is a personal choice and noone has the right to tell others how to do it.

apart from the police when they are enforcing the law.

And Jesus.

I don't wanna get dragged into this thread more because it smacks of narrowmindedness and stubbornness from people who are commenting on things they have no experience of so all im going to say that it's ridculous, nay, pathetic that the debate over whether a rear brake in needed on a s/s attracts so much more heated debate that whether a hand brake is required on a fixed bike when the 2 issues really are the same thing.
It seems that certain people think that riding fixed makes them cool and i think these people find all other cyclists a threat to their coolness and exclusivity, especially when these cyclists are riding bikes which appear very similar to their own - obviously more 'hardcore' fixed - bikes.
These people need to get a fucking life, you don't own the look or style of bike and arguing about setups like this would be like arguing that female peds who walk around in high heels are more irresponsible that those wearing flat shoes, riding a bike is a personal choice and noone has the right to tell others how to do it.

Couldn't agree more .........................

C+ thread fail.

i give it an A+

Mechanical Vandal I personally don't think I own the look of my bike or anything such, and I don't look down on single speed riders in general, but anyone riding fixed with a front brake only, effectively still have rear braking capability (how good that is depends on their own abilities).
Jump to single speed with the same setup and immediately you are removing that, if you want to run a single brake on single speed, I would make it a rear one and not a front one, that is my personal opinion on it, as there are many situations in an emergency where using a front brake could be dangerous or make the situation take a turn for the worse when it doesn't have to, this has been proven time and time again, at high speed, in an emergency I would rather have a back brake than a front brake if I had to choose, OBVIOUSLY two brakes are superior to one brake, but thats not what this is about.

and there are all those idiots out there who don't even have one brake, in london especially ( well come on you've seen the taxi drivers here ) stupid fuckers
do you notice that when playing polo it's only the brakeless who have those hilarious avoidable crashes that have us all in stiches (and to be truthful have them in stiches too at times ) ( apart from chris crash )

" gears and brakes for all " would be my motto if i was voted head of sustrans or british cycling

NO! Weight goes back so the bike doesn't endo when braking hard.

yup.

I think we should have a stopping compo - front brake vs back brake.

Front is for stopping, back is for control.

yup.

I think we should have a stopping compo - front brake vs back brake.

Front is for stopping, back is for control.

I've done this in the past (30mph emergency stops in controlled conditions on private land, front-only and rear-only) when I was doing my motorbike license many years ago - you stop a LOT faster front-only. On a bicycle, I'd expect the effect to be greater if anything, since the rider's weight (thrown forward under braking, unloading the rear wheel) makes a greater proportion of the weight of the whole system.

you just need reverse thrusters on your handle bars

And jesus in your heart.