Originally Posted by Shaman
The rear brake is also used as a 'drag' brake for long or fast downhills. Trice provides this option. They too use a frame mounted shifter lever for setting this brake. It sounds like you plan on carrying payloads and if hills are in the territory, a drag brake may be a good safeguard.
Originally Posted by BlazingPedals
For a drag brake on hills, I would think you'd want a drum brake that won't be susceptible to overheating the way rim brakes are.
I could use it as a drag brake, thats a good idea. The trike's principal function will be kid transport so the associated safety issues and the fact that 'long or fast downhills' always require looooooooooong slow uphills first will mean that the drag brake won't get used too much. Although I am hoping to take it touring next year, to the Netherlands, where a bridge over a motorway counts as a substantial incline.
