Originally Posted by
andre nickatina
I'm sure if the cops came and busted down on Williamsburg, all the hipsters there would likely start installing 'fake brakes' over real ones too. Fortunately hipster don't have to equate bikes with their livelihood, especially when it means losing part of your paycheck because two cops downtown decide to start putting their own interprations of the law
Well, yeah, but if that's the real issue then it's a simple matter of installing a brake and the paycheck remains intact. After all, don't you avoid the fine on most of these citations if you later show you've installed a brake? This seems to be more about standing on principle than economics.