I think God may be telling me to go brakeless

but you do hate fag troops, right?

'mum, dad, now i;ve recovered from my nasty crash which left my arm resembling * the terminator*, i've decided the best thing would be to take the brake off my bike and ride it like that. what do you think?'

That is precisely what I did, and haven't had a crash since :). Except i didn't tell my mum or dad. (and still haven't)

Doesn't everyone? Even Fag troops hate themselves.

I've actually just had a furtehr realization over a pint of Timothy Taylor Landlord - removing the handlebars from the stem wouldn't have helped, so at least I did the only thing that sorted me out and wasn't a dullard.

Oh and GOD? You're a cunt.

I've wanted to say that for ages.

I am not a fakenger as meer mortal tags cannot be applied to a being of my presence.

Neither can spellcheck be applied it seems…

Neither can spellcheck be applied it seems…

Crish carsh?

Neither can spellcheck be applied it seems…

NO just more evidence of us getting it wrong, so wrong that it has been excepted as correct.

That is precisely what I did, and haven't had a crash since :). Except i didn't tell my mum or dad. (and still haven't)

You're still a liability though :P

NO just more evidence of us getting it wrong, so wrong that it has been excepted as correct.

is being correct the exception these days?

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is being correct the exception these days?

yes. Especially if you work in the media.

Couple more for god here (was going to post a couple, but they're all one big image!)

Did adam have a belly button?

Oh and GOD? You're a cunt.

No I'm not... :)

haj you're not God.

Why not?

Because I believe that you exist.

i put a brake on the other day because i'd hurt my knee (on the leg that i generally skid with) and stopping was just a bit painful.
however, i reckon just having a front brake is probably not the best idea. i've heard loads of people say they've faceplanted from slamming the front brake on too hard. i'd imagine this is because in an emergency situation it's very difficult to brake with your legs and your hands at the same time whilst trying to avoid a car/ped/wall.
in my opinion it's probably safest to ride with either 2 brakes or no brakes.

No brakes all the way (For me personally)

i put a brake on the other day because i'd hurt my knee (on the leg that i generally skid with) and stopping was just a bit painful.
however, i reckon just having a front brake is probably not the best idea. i've heard loads of people say they've faceplanted from slamming the front brake on too hard. i'd imagine this is because in an emergency situation it's very difficult to brake with your legs and your hands at the same time whilst trying to avoid a car/ped/wall.
in my opinion it's probably safest to ride with either 2 brakes or no brakes.

interesting theory... i think i'm pretty good at doing both, indeed, i normally skid by using the front brake to take a bit of weight of the back, but i haven't had to do a really really sharp emergency stop

3 out of the 4 crashes this year, by non-cycling-geeks I know, where caused by panic braking with front brakes.. one of them got his heel damaged because he slipped of the pedal and ran himself over.. Bad for him, but good for me justifying brakeless bikes ;)

mashton, I dont know wheather you remember, but while your senses were dulled with pain killers i stole your lights. I still have them and am feeling mighty guilty that you are riding again... sorry.

i better return them to you before you go and have some more bad luck...

this week.

x

i'd imagine this is because in an emergency situation it's very difficult to brake with your legs and your hands at the same time whilst trying to avoid a car/ped/wall.

not so, IME.

for me, it's instinctive.

but that's resisting with the legs and using the brake, which is the fastest way to stop a fixed bike going at a decent pace.

when I skid, I do it to scrub speed, and keep well away from the brake.

'scrub speed' - I love that phrase.

I found that it was pretty difficult to not just grab the brake lever as hard as possible in an emergency situation, which led to 2 accidents which could have been a lot worse than they were.

Since riding without a brake, the first instinct is to brake with the legs, which although doesn't have as much stopping power, means that no matter how hard you try you won't go over the handlebars (probably). Now that I ride with a brake again, by the time I actually relent and use it, I'll have either crashed, or scrubbed off enough speed to avoid crashing. In theory. :)

I see a lot of inexperienced cyclists doing that coasting whilst standing thing (slightly forwards), as if parading around on a chariot in front of a Roman emperor or something. And I've seen people do it whilst emergency braking, with 'hilarious consequences'.

I think if you carry this bad habit over to riding fixed (or even the smallest inclination to get off the saddle), you're fucked, and doubly so due to what happens when you lock a leg.

If you get enough chance to adapt to constant pedalling, it would train these Ben Hur types into moving their weight as low and as far back as possible during braking, to keep the back wheel on the ground.

I can remember coming down Fitzjohn's Avenue (not that steep, but still definitely a downhill) doing 35mph in 46x17, and some twat pulling out of a side road and then stopping for no apparent reason in the middle of the road, leaving me about 10-15m to stop (at a guess). It's the only time my back wheel started to lift (despite almost having my arse on the back wheel), but I remembered to let go of the brake for a split second and all was well (except for a minor shoulder sprain from the force of bracing myself against the bars). There's just no way I could've skid-stopped in that time, but granted, I probably would've been going half as fast brakeless.