Originally Posted by kevinlaba
His bike only has a freewheel during certain scenes (i.e. those involving jumps, and a few others, I believe) - most of the time it's fixed. I'm assuming the filmmakers figured people wouldn't notice. Either way, there are no brakes to be seen the whole time.
there is one scene with brakes: when he's going down a flight of stairs... he's in the drops, freewheeling and squeezing both front and rear brake levers. it's easy to miss, i had to pause and rewind a couple of times.