Originally Posted by
stewardmike03
In all honesty it may well be brilliant. Maybe the Maddy guy only wants the lever there for emergencies but doesn't want to grow reliant on it. Keep it out of the way for every day riding but there in an emergency. Where is your car's emergency brake? Is it convenient or conveniently out of the way? Just a thought. Flame me at will.
the hand brake on my car is there for parking and the almost unheard of situation where the other brakes fail when I am going down a hill.
An "emergency brake" on a bike is for those relatively frequent times you need to stop really fast. Putting it out of the way is ****ing moronic.