I rode brakeless for a couple of weeks, in between paychecks and ordering brakes(i was broke after my flite). I found that it made me look ahead and i rode more conservativly, running less reds, not splitting lanes. And my kness only hurt when i was, resisting to hard instead of just skidding, they also hurt untill i realized hor important the front foot is skiding it can take ALOT of pressure of the Rear if you really use your forward foot, and this was with 80gear"