Have to agree on the noisy brakes thing!

Back in the mid-eighties I had my first knobby tire bike, a BMX with (yeah yeah) - hand operated brakes. Crappy 'quality', and composed out of 1001 different pieces. a pain to adjust, let alone for a schoolkid like myself . They stopped me okay, but they also HOWLED, hehe... Just a slight tough of my front brake was enough to have people jump of the sidewalk into the bushes, the noise was more than just loud, it travelled way far!