if you are running brakeless you will be torquing your chain a lot more. a chain under normal circumstances will begin to stretch in six months.
Originally Posted by
fuzz2050
not only is this untrue, but it's a use of the term torque that doesn't make a bit of sense. Riding brakeless will make the catastrophic failure of your chain from improper installation more likely though.
Not only
is it actually true (come on, of *course* you put more rearward pressure on the cranks and chain than if you were coasting or using brakes), but you actually basically just repeated a version of the quote you were trying to poo-poo by DROPPIN KNOWLEDGE.
And that's a fine colloquial use of "torque"... You really didn't know what the poster meant?