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Wow. Sir you must have covered every patch of land on the earth's surface. I salute you.

Oh wait....

That looks like a great setup if that's what you want to ride. I don't. I won't crash into your bedroom wall because I won't be there to do it.

You sound like one of those pricks who use to rip on kids at the skatepark. You know what I used to do when I saw a kid riding a shit setup? Try and give them some advice. Laughing at fashion failures isn't helping anyone apart from feeding your own ego. It also fools you into thinking you're some sort of God surrounded by idiots. It's a pity you're not because you come up looking rather stupid.

Oh and just in case you hadn't spotted it mentioned a few times, it's 'brakes', not 'breaks'.

you sound like one of them people that calls other people names when they run out of arguments. anyway, i am giving you good advice: put some brakes on, stop worrying about fashion.

Deckchairing over London fields.... right over my head unfortunately.

Yeah I ride BMX, slightly less in recent years due to a ligament injury in my back meaning I can't twist often otherwise I end up limping home unable to straighten my back.

So I take it you've heard every single justification for riding a BMX brakeless ever existed to be able to pass off criticisms?

yep. don't believe any of it. try riding in here with no breaks without crashing through my bedroom wall:

Can fixed gear bikes with either one or no brakes stop as fast as a bike with two brakes?

Buffalo Bill Oct 9th 2007
"A fixed-gear bike with no brakes cannot stop in as short a space as one with a front brake, because only the rear wheel is providing the braking force. As a vehicle on the road, it's therefore clearly less safe.

This is a matter of simple physics. In the third edition of Bicycling Science, David Gordon Wilson demonstrates that the maximum deceleration of a crouched rider on a standard bike (that is, not a recumbent) on a dry road is 0.56g. Try to brake any harder than that and you go over the handlebars, which is the limit condition, as the limit from tyre adhesion of vehicles that don't pitch over (tandems, recumbents and cars) is about 0.8g.

If you brake with only the rear wheel, according to Wilson, the limit is 0.256g, because braking effectively shifts your weight forward, reducing the load on the rear wheel to the point that it skids at that deceleration. Once a tyre is skidding, its braking effectiveness is reduced because you no longer have sticky solid rubber in contact with the road, but a lubricating layer of molten rubber."

John Stevenson in Cycling News.

http://www.cyclingnews.com/tech.php?id=tech/2006/news/08-04

Well where to begin...

Outdated memes I picked up from Digg:

I don't read Digg

To bullet point a comment:

I can't stand idly by while someone rinses something I've been doing for 9 years

So niche:

Do you even ride BMX?

yep. you? deckchairing over london fields don't count

understanding of brakeless manuals fail.

showing yourself up a bit there sonny aren't ya? using outdated memes you picked up from reading digg to bullet point a comment about a trick thats so niche its like saying alley oop mctwist without a hat on

Can fixed gear bikes stop as fast as a bike with two brakes?

no

wait... did you say brownies?

funnily enough i was a chef striaght before i was a courier. and i broke my collar bone. 5 days before my wedding. i'd buy 12 for £5.

ooh look! another break topic! i remember the fashion for no breaks in BMX. we laughed at everyones justification for that one too.

the problem is that people will argue so vehemently about the pluses of riding without breaks because they are trying to justify their fashion choice in a way that makes it look like a technical choice. now you may have rode x years without incident etc.. but the kid reading your posts that believes what you said and takes his breaks of and ends up under a bus is dead/maimed because of fashion. a shame, no?

you really need a break on each wheel, thats just how it is. any other choice is just fashion.

there are 295 topics on this forum that discuss brakes in some way. is that all that happens here?

culnts

i broke one of my levers once but didnt stop to fix it, one of those 10 up POB days from the heady 90's, instead i relied on my front break only. when the cable snapped it was only the scooter i hit that stopped me going under a parcel force truck. you need two breaks always, fixed gearing for the rear counts.

i'd use my 17" macbook pro but it just falls off the bars whenever i hit the space key.

why wouldn't you ride to work?

i'm out riding and posting at the same time from my iphone. don't hate me because i can ride no handed yo

err.. is this your first bike?

i love this topic so much i signed up so i could chip in. brakes are for mugs, real cyclists don't stop. ever.