Originally Posted by
Nagrom_
If you bought a geared bike with only one brake, would you not add another one?
Probably yeah but that's not the same. If I had a geared bike it would be to go flat out as fast as I could on the straights and to climb, which I don't do now because of my GI/hills here. So because I'd use it differently I would use two brakes on a geared bike.