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Old 04-26-18 | 11:50 AM
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Bikes: (2) ti TiCycles, 2007 w/ triple and 2011 fixed, 1979 Peter Mooney, ~1983 Trek 420 now fixed and ~1973 Raleigh Carlton Competition gravel grinder

A super-stopper brake on a wheel that can only slow you down? (Do the math. It takes fully twice the distance to stop with just a rear brake.)

And - how to make the ultra-simple, clean fix gear high tech and complicated. (I confess, I do run traditional rim brakes on both wheels, but that has been done on road fix gears for at least 90 years.)

Ben
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