Originally Posted by
SkinGriz
After years of anti coaster brake snobbery I decided to revisit my thoughts on the matter. I rebuilt a coaster brake. Then I acquired a La Jolla to turn it into a low end klunker.
Riding it around the neighborhood I realized I really enjoyed the simplicity.
Great!
I bought a Sun cruiser yesterday (pics coming), with the Nexus 3-sp with coaster brake. I hadn't used a coaster brake in 50+ years, but it felt natural. It seems to have more nuance than the coaster brakes I used back in the 1950's and 60's. I seem to remember those old ones from the Schwinns and Raleighs being more like ON or OFF. This Nexus allows for some degrees of slowing..... I may be mis-remembering.
The air is pretty bad here in NYC, but I'm going out for a ride now....