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I like to imagine I am on a space hopper. Nothing to do with bikes, I just like to imagine I am on a space hopper.
I like to imagine I'm naked on a space hopper, in space, being fed freeze-dried spaceman food by Kylie in a pink spacesuit. It helps me to skip stop.
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That's absolutely retarded.** Do people really give a shit what they look like when they are controlling the speed of a bike?**
I just got run over by a lorry and killed, but don't worry - at least I didn't look like a geek by doing something to avoid the collision.
yes they do, hence the brakeless argument....
All this (hand)brakeless bullshit makes me laugh, especially the excuses some people come out with (as if there's any other reason than "it's fashionable and I like the way my bike looks without the brake")
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I've been out without my brakes on a few times, once just to see what it was like and a few times just for a bit of a change, and it was *different**, in fact I quite liked it, but I'm way too lazy to ride like that all the time.
*By 'it was different' I mean it was alright going slow and on the flat, but at 30mph down a steep hill hurtling towards a red light junction with a main road, cranks spinning fast as fuck and trying to slow down by backpedalling, was not an experience I would like to repeat.
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I like Messenjah
put a good word in to his GF when you got time ;)
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yes they do, hence the brakeless argument....
The brakeless argument has little or nothing to do with what people look like when controlling the bike's speed. Arguments for going brakeless generally involve purity, the bike's aesthetic, the amount they use the front brake, reliablity and other mechanical reasons.
You would look the same stopping a bike without using the front brake regardless or not there is a front brake.
Your argument is like trying to decide which is better, Durex or Mates, based on the fact that a lot of people don't like wearing condoms at all.
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to hop or skip the rear wheel:
get your weight forward as if you are about to attempt a skid, at the point where you would normally resist the cranks, back pedal whilst lifting your feet sharply. The rear wheel will leave the ground. The movement is short and sharp, not a massive heave.
you can do series of these hops to stop, or do an endo over the bars if you don't know your balance points. I'm assuming that as you already know how to skid, that you are comfortable with this.
I sometimes perform this manoeuvre to slow or stop, despite running a brake. It's good to have the skills in case your cable snaps or something...
... thanks, some sense at last! my gf's all yours.
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I leant it from reading Sheldon's site and the main piece of advice that helped me was to lock your non-dominant leg straight as the pedal passes the bottom of the rotation. This causes the pedal stroke to push your leg up and hence lift your weight off the saddle. Just after locking your leg, do the pull up thing with the dominant leg as if skidding.
If you exaggerate the movement so that you take all of the weight off the saddle then you will do a little skip stop.
Rinse, repeat.
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option (alt) + shift + 2 on a Mac.
Probably 'insert' or some shit on a PC.
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speaking of trackstands, many people here eaten it at the lights?!