Smurfy
Naturist Smurf
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- Smurfette's Kitchen
He wanted everyone to see his lack of brake levers and brake cables
does anybody else ride like this?
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raleighnut
Legendary Member
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- One of the 'Elite'
Dickhead.
shouldbeinbed
Rollin' along
- Location
- Manchester way
Divine retribution for being a selfish nobber on the crossing.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
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- Accra, Ghana
Might give him a bit of foresight, but on the other hand could be cock eyed.
Drago
Legendary Member
- Location
- Suburban Poshshire
cycling on the road breaking a lot of rules (which we know people do), i couldnt help but laugh at what happens to him
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzGiY81-lRE
What a penis.
Saluki
World class procrastinator
- Location
- ...Norwich over the water.
That didn't look real to me. Green screen?
young Ed
Veteran
*have time to brake
he couldn't brake because he didn't have brakes!
cyclists fault for bumper hugging him
Cheers Ed
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Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
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- Back up north
Technically the pedals on a fixie are the brakes, aren't they?
Which is why fixies in this country are only required to have a front brake worked by a lever on the handlebars.
Don't know how effective the fixed wheel thingy is at braking though.
Which is why fixies in this country are only required to have a front brake worked by a lever on the handlebars.
Don't know how effective the fixed wheel thingy is at braking though.
young Ed
Veteran
not ridden fixie but i would imagine if you had elephant thighs and could just stop the cranks dead it would be pretty effective, although i wouldn't really call it a brake as all you are doing is just stopping all drive to the wheels not slowing the bike down with the potential ability to have the drive train still moving, if that makes sense
may be law to have only front brake but he had NO brakes
Cheers Ed
Spinney
Bimbleur extraordinaire
- Location
- Back up north
But as I understand it, a fixie doesn't have a freewheel, so if you can stop the pedals the wheel should also stop moving .... the drive train would not continue to move if you stopped the pedals.
... or are we talking at cross purposes here?
young Ed
Veteran
TBH i think we are both confusing each other here! i did say 'if that makes sense' and reading through it it does sound hard to make any sense of
basically when you stop pedalling on a fixie the bike stops entirely where as with a free wheel and conventional brakes they take time to slow you down and you can, with a bit of effort, keep pedalling whilst applying the brakes
Cheers Ed
CopperCyclist
Veteran
Law says you need two working brakes. A fixed gear may count as a brake.
His braking, even with thighs like the Hulk is severely affected, as about 80 percent (Sheldon has the figures) of the braking force on a bicycle is achieved with the front brake.
Go out and try using just your rear brake on a ride and you'll see.
