Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - No brakes, chain malfunction - what do you do?

To make matters worse you are accelerating downhill. Your thoughts?

aim for a soft grassy area...if none are around...aim for a large group of pedestrians to break you fall

shred it or crash. Either way, come to the realization that you're an idiot for riding without brakes.

Use my foot on the tire as a brake, if that didn't work, lowside it onto someone's front lawn :D

superman that ho

well if you dont have to stop its not that big an issue is it

superman that ho

lol thanks to you I just laughed extremely loud on a bus

jam my carbon soled shoe into my back wheel and let it take the punishment.

There was a recent thread about "dropping the deuce" that comes to mind...

I was in that situation recently bombing the bike path that cuts through the UC Santa Cruz campus. Here is a youtube video of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kYKu89DrQM\

(Damn... you can't embed youtube vids on this board?)

It's a pretty wild ride down that hill without brakes. My issue was too long of a spindle making my chain line untrue. I guess the chain must have hooked onto one of the teeth as it was ripped clear off my bike to my impending doom.

Something like this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/d9/Ucsdgreatmeadow.jpg/800px-Ucsdgreatmeadow.jpg

This happened to me once before. Luckily I had an umbrella with me. As I was flying down this hill with no brakes / chain I balanced myself up on my top tube, took a flying leap, opened my umbrella and glided safely to the ground unscathed.

Learned that s**t from Mary Poppins.

lol thanks to you I just laughed extremely loud on a bus

you have wireless on a bus?

Jump off and hope you can run fast. Then look at all the scrapes and dings on your fancy brakeless bike.

Happened to me going down this:

http://www.fybush.com/Tower%20Site/060217/duluth-hill.jpg

Was testing out a new conversion and taking it really slow (my brakes were 15 miles away and were getting put on about 24 hours later).

pray

foot jam. not hard.

that hill was fun as ****. reason enough to ride a freewheel at ucsc.

get a brake tough guy.

Start a brake vs. brakeless thread.

Foot in back tire is the best thing to do, most people that ride brakeless bmx bikes only do this, so it shouldn't be too bad to use as a last resort if people rely on it as a primary source of braking.

Ted Shred the mutha!

EDIT: "ftw"

Foot in back tire is the best thing to do, most people that ride brakeless bmx bikes only do this, so it shouldn't be too bad to use as a last resort if people rely on it as a primary source of braking.

Most people that ride brakeless BMX are also 13 years old, not yet through puberty, and pushing a 28/16 gear so they ain't moving very fast.

Sounds like pain to me.

Any of you foot jam heroes got youtube vids of that ****?

you have wireless on a bus?


two links. one for you:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarMetro#Improvements.2FStarMetro_Renaissance_Project


one for everybody:

http://media.www.studlife.com/media/storage/paper337/news/2007/10/01/Forum/Supersoak.That.Ho.A.Reconsideration-3002099.shtml

now supersoak dat ho!

you have wireless on a bus?

Blackberry?

Also, put more pressure on the front, and slalom down the hill to slow down, or foot in back wheel, like one of my brakeless BMX friends does.

Any of you foot jam heroes got youtube vids of that ****?

you don't jam your foot, you stick it in the rear triangle with the tread facing the tire and slowly apply more and more pressure until it slows you down.

then you go on the internet and tell everyone how you cheated certain and unavoidable death and we all respect you for it.

foot jam. not hard.

+1 for the bmx-style stop, i've had to use that trick before when my chain came off.

now i ride w/ a front brake just in case.

use a car to arrest your momentum (I've done this)

I would jam my fist through the fork crown.

you have wireless on a bus?

i synced my phone to my computer so i have internet as long as i have reception. if you have unlimited internet on your phone try it

Any of you foot jam heroes got youtube vids of that ****? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5W1Z23wPg)

Ted Shred (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5W1Z23wPg) does it all day long, and he's the jam, so I've been told.

It happened to me on a coaster brake bike where the wheel slid forward in the dropout and I threw my chain. I ended up dragging my foot on the ground and it worked out okay but the hill was pretty moderate. If it were steeper, I would probably ghostride the whip.

flintstone.

you have wireless on a bus?

there's these things called blackberries/iphones/palms…

you have wireless on a bus?

lol good ol surfing the net on my phone and edge :( slow as crap but passes time on the bus

no bike - getting my kilo pc'd

ted shred.

No brakes, chain malfunction - what do you do?

I wonder why I was stupid enough to go bombing hills without a brake.

You go back to the roadie forum. Duh.

you will probably eat ****, and then go out and buy a brake.

use the force

use the force

+1

What do you do? You learn from your stupidity. A brake might help.

what is meant by chain malfunction? you break the chain, it comes off to one side, what? chances are you're going to eat ****, brake or not, if the chain wraps itself around the back cog/spokes. but nice troll-ish thread, kudos!

foot on the back tire, easy

Ted shred.

To make matters worse you are accelerating downhill. Your thoughts?

bmx stop (foot on rear wheel), aim carefully, bail if you must because the ground hurts less than a car.

Ted Shred (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5W1Z23wPg) does it all day long, and he's the jam, so I've been told.

i know a kid that does that. he got hit last weekend. for his, like....15th time.

superman that ho
^^

when my chain came off when i was riding bmx as a kid, i just went down immediately because of the loss of resistance to my pedaling destroyed my balance. pain ensued.

I would jam my fist through the fork crown.


i just did one of those explosion spit/laughs and got saliva on my keyboard. i dont know why. it wasnt even funny the second time i read it.

but yeah, ted shred it.

I had a Ted Shred Tallbike for a while... chain malfunction or not, just jam the sneaker in between the brake bridge and rear tire. Of course, this bike had a top speed of about 4 mph, so...

i just did one of those explosion spit/laughs and got saliva on my keyboard. i dont know why. it wasnt even funny the second time i read it.

but yeah, ted shred it.
Aw man. Saliva....

Most people that ride brakeless BMX are also 13 years old, not yet through puberty, and pushing a 28/16 gear so they ain't moving very fast.

Sounds like pain to me.


Do you know how many pros ride brakeless? Pretty much all the Animal, Lotek, Mosh, and Fit team, to name a few.