For Sale: Complete SS Charge Plug (modified), Peugeot Frame, Death Skateboard

Tbh I'd have thought that would've been obvious, but yeah, fair point.

BIKE IS NOT ROAD LEGAL.

JUST LIKE ALL THOSE BRAKELESS FIXED GEAR BIKES, WHICH SOMEHOW DON'T SEEM TO PROVOKE AS MUCH OF A SHITSTORM ON HERE. EQUALLY ILLEGAL.

However, the positive thing about this bike is that if you have balls the size of creme eggs (like me) these can be used as a braking system, simply by wedging them in between the back wheel and the frame.

I must urge readers that no matter how tempted they are, NOT to try this with the front wheel and the frame. Safety first.

from what 'some-guy' said to my mate at one of those free cycle clinics..

FG + Front brake + No back brake = ok

SS + Front brake + No back brake = not road legal (but fine if you have egg-balls)

from what 'some-guy' said to my mate at one of those free cycle clinics..

FG + Front brake + No back brake = ok

SS + Front brake + No back brake = not road legal (but fine if you have egg-balls)

I think we established that.

My point was that FG + no brakes = not road legal either.

got it, my bad

got it, my bad

Well don't I feel like a defensive little prick now?

:D

Bikes are road legal if they have "adequate" brakes, however to sell them you need to have two independent braking systems.

Freewheel with only a front brake is retarded and a long way off being adequate (especially in the wet, etc). Freewheel with no back brake is definitely the domain of poseurs only.

Bikes are road legal if they have "adequate" brakes, however to sell them you need to have two independent braking systems.

Freewheel with only a front brake is retarded and a long way off being adequate (especially in the wet, etc). Freewheel with no back brake is definitely the domain of poseurs only.

Take it to a fixed gear thread and have an interesting debate, instead of going for the easy targets, eh? Fixed gear no brakes is arguably more 'dangerous' than single speed one brake, and no-one seems to give a wet slap about those.

Next time you want to tell me what I can and can't sell, let's have a bollock measuring competition FIRST so we can dispense with all this tedious shite, eh?

Fixed with no brakes is probably more dangerous than freewheel with a BACK brake, fine. However, relying on front wheel braking rather than back wheel braking is definitely a stuupid idea.

What really beggars belief is the fact that it came with two brakes and you decided to take one off.

How about we make it a best of three. You can have your bollock measuring (which you may or may not win), but we also spice it up with "how smart you are" and "are you a genuine cyclist or just another band wagon jumping little poseur"? I'm happy to win 2-1.

pot meets kettle...

fucking hell! the geezer aquitted himself with a fine disclaimer, and u wanna measure his willy and do all that other shit?

this thread is pure banter!

A disclaimer that was wrong.

Also, it was the bollocks that were going to get measured and I'd assumed that we'd be measuring them ourselves.

Pug's gone. The DEATH TRAP and the DEATH DECK are still for sale though. Live dangerously!

haha

Are you the new Dale, Tom? You've been awfully prickly on the forum lately.

Weird, given that I'm so delightful in real life. Anyway, I barely post on here any more.

Lets strike it up to too much accounting, not enough polo.

Too much accounting sounds rough.

Yep. I think that excess accounting and the hipster hell that is my 'hood are getting to me.

Can't wait until I can buy something in a "normal" area, where only women wear skin tight jeans and pointy shoes.

are only women like only children?

Well don't I feel like a defensive little prick now?

:D

as everyone else is sticking there 2p in without it being asked (as per fucking usual) I think your defense has not only been witty but correct.....but I would expect that from a creme egged sized baller such as yourself.

Fixed with no brakes is probably more dangerous than freewheel with a BACK brake, fine. However, relying on front wheel braking rather than back wheel braking is definitely a stuupid idea.

What really beggars belief is the fact that it came with two brakes and you decided to take one off.

How about we make it a best of three. You can have your bollock measuring (which you may or may not win), but we also spice it up with "how smart you are" and "are you a genuine cyclist or just another band wagon jumping little poseur"? I'm happy to win 2-1.

The day I justify myself to someone so insecure they had to put a full stop after their name is the day I measure less than 'large smooth eggs' on the Testicle Scale.

Seriously, I'M bored of this shite and it's my fucking thread. Fuck me.

as everyone else is sticking there 2p in without it being asked (as per fucking usual) I think your defense has not only been witty but correct.....but I would expect that from a creme egged sized baller such as yourself.

I throw a giant 'Slayer' smiley your way sir.

\m/ (>_<) \m/

balls the size of creme eggs

Should probably get those checked by your GP...

"nurse!"

Fixed gear no brakes = possibly dangerous to others dependent upon skills of the rider.

Single speed + front brake only = almost certain base over apex at some point.

Single speed + front brake only = almost certain base over apex at some point.

Sheldy said something different
http://www.sheldonbrown.com/brakturn.html#overthebars

The day I justify myself to someone so insecure they had to put a full stop after their name is the day I measure less than 'large smooth eggs' on the Testicle Scale.

Seriously, I'M bored of this shite and it's my fucking thread. Fuck me.

Insecure? Tom is my name, but it was taken, so I put a full stop after it. Simple. If I was insecure I'd have come up with some "cool" name and gone on about the size of my genitals a lot.

Regardless of whether it is "your" thread or not, riding freewheel with only a front brake still makes you a fucktard.

That Sheldon Brown article deals specifically with the use of a front brake in a two brake situation. The simple fact is that under heavy braking loads a bike a rear brake doesn't compromise control as much as a front brake.