Originally Posted by
akaio
Wow, pulling the health premiums angle against brakeless riding? That is a whole left field argument. Find me a legitimate number of how many people are injured enough to seek health care from riding this way? Id love for you to waste your time trying to find it.
I bet in the couple minutes I spent writing this post a half dozen car wrecks happened across this country. THAT is more of an issue with health premiums than brakeless riding.
And I ride with a brake these days. Im not just a brake hater. There is an attraction to riding brakeless, and it can be done with proficiency and grace. This doesnt mean that every one who hops on a brakeless fixed is good at it either. Its not right to disallow everyone from doing it though. Riding brakeless should be discouraged through education, but not enforced through law.
Of course there will be more car crashes because there are much more cars on the road then there are bikes dummy.You must be really dumb if you think riding brakeless doesn't increase chance of accident. I speak from example when I say riding brakeless increases chances of an accident. When I was 13, I had a major car accident due to riding with no brakes. Even though he was wrong(and the judge agreed) it was still partly my fault because I couldn't stop right on time.My leg was f*cked up, and so was my back so I'm one of the people severely injured due to riding with no brakes. Using your foot or whatever else you use just isnt the same as good brakes.
Do you know how many other times I've rode and had an accident prevented from an accident? Do you know how many times I've seen other people saved from injury or death due to brakes? There are so many bike accidents every year and to think brakes have NOTHING to do with at least some of them then you are a fool. I don't have to do any research, it's just common sense.
Riding without brakes in New York City should definitely be illegal and should definitely be a ticketable offense. I'm all for it and I'm sure that most of the sane people would be for it too.