Brakeless?

[Ben]

So what do people think about the new brakeless street revolution? it has its pros, but obviously its cons too


Wight savings
less to go wrong
cleaner/neater
i guess it improves technical tricks


a lot of brakeless street riders tend to be laods loads smoother, Ian Schwartz for example, without the ability to scrub speed in a session things look a hell of a lot smoother and tidier, and generally better to watch, with a bigger skill level involved

cons

obviosly no stopping power apart from ye olde shoe in the wheel
rear wheel tricks e.g. abubicas/fufanus will be 100times harder
manuals will be done withour feathering of the rear brake


hmmmmmmm im half tempted to give it a go

any opinions.........

[carrerabiker]

if you want to come hurtling down a hill and into a lampost go ahead

[Ben]

BMX, not dh, look at the forum

[waddy]

I ran brakeless for about a year, its not as bad as youd think but now i have no shoes and hardley a tyre due to the good old foot in the wheel braking.

other than that id go for it, tempted to go back, brake levers just get in the way :[

[steve_p]

Mikey and I and a few others but I've forgotten who saw a kid who had no brakes on his bike down at Westwick skatepark. He was good and I didn't see him crash into any lampposts. He was riding an old mountain bike of an obscure make.

I think most of the kids with BMXs that ride there don't have brakes and quite a few of them had hefty chains with padlocks on clanging against their frames while they were jumping about.

[Will]

would imagine it would be fun try, i dono about on street but in a park could possibly be an advantage.

[carrerabiker]

i koow you have hillish-looking ramps in street parks but yeah i rekon it could have some advantages like nothing waffing arround your handle bars

[waddy]

Id say its more of an advantage on street but not for park, just depends on the rider really.

[sonny24seven]

umm i get scared without brakes tbh they are part of my comfort zone

[Fwogddy]

would imagine it would be fun try, i dono about on street but in a park could possibly be an advantage.

Wrong way round :devil:

[NorcoBoy]

So what do people think about the new brakeless street revolution? it has its pros, but obviously its cons too


Wight savings
less to go wrong
cleaner/neater
i guess it improves technical tricks


a lot of brakeless street riders tend to be laods loads smoother, Ian Schwartz for example, without the ability to scrub speed in a session things look a hell of a lot smoother and tidier, and generally better to watch, with a bigger skill level involved

cons

obviosly no stopping power apart from ye olde shoe in the wheel
rear wheel tricks e.g. abubicas/fufanus will be 100times harder
manuals will be done withour feathering of the rear brake


hmmmmmmm im half tempted to give it a go

any opinions.........
you want to try a ye olde pedal back brake"your proberbly to young to remember those ben":p

[Ben]

haha considering i still fix and actually fixed a back pedal cycle today i think not, i would loose my freecoasterness

[Fwogddy]

http://i4.pinkbike.com/photo/1401/pbpic1401067.jpg

Brakeless? I think so :devil:

[NorcoBoy]

haha considering i still fix and actually fixed a back pedal cycle today i think not, i would loose my freecoasterness
My Bad mate my bad:hu:

[shawry gt]

i know i am slightly changing the subject but has any got a bmx 4 sale as i had 1 but i feel that downhill is not the sort of thing u can do every day and i liv in woodhall and it is great 4 street and bmxing so if any 1 has one for sale pm me or leave a comment under this . thanks . oli shaw

[Baker]

put a thread in the wanted section ;) It will get noticed more!

[will_who]

yer thought it was good until i road my mates bike for 2 days one at a skate park was not too bad apart form killing skaters but when and road street that was good but coming bk down this massive hill fuck scared the shit out of me and no shoe left now arr lol just a brake for the traveling part other wise no brakes

[Baker]

might have been scary dude, but swearing isn't tolerated on this forum, please edit the 2 in 1 sentence out!!!!!

[Cookie]

Punctuation doesn't go amiss either :rolleyes:

[Rick Brown]

yea guys you tell him yea yea billy:)

[mr fish]

thats right we don't want wake up MR DICTIONARY now do we :badmood:

[Cookie]

noo. Definitely not... Let him sleep :p