Originally Posted by
cjenrick
well, i practiced that method and now it comes automatic, use it every day, been like that for about 46 years now. Greg Lemond taught me that trick.
i bet every pro jock out there uses that same trick,
Perhaps sales of bicycles with brakes that require lessons from pros like Greg Lemond to be used safely should be limited to "pro jocks."
Selling bicycles as safe, normal and ready for general use by the public that in fact may require special techniques and training to be used safely sounds like a page out of the Corvair chapter of
Unsafe at Any Speed by Ralph Nadar.