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Old 03-04-10, 06:48 PM
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I lived car-free in college using a single-speed Fuji beach cruiser with a coasterbrake. Admittedly, it was Florida, which is about as hilly as a pane of glass, but there was a pretty severe incline going up and down the bridges over the Intra-coastal Waterway, and I am a big dude - nigh on 260 at the time. Coasterbrake worked fine for me and my Wald wire panniers full of school books... and 50 lbs of camera gear (art-school books. Large format cameras are heavy... well the ones an art-student can afford are.) Rain or shine, they stopped me pretty well without any maintenance of the brake in particular. (The wheels, tires, pedals, chain, fork and bars are another story.)

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