Originally Posted by
kemmer
That's a good way to put it. The two people who finished ahead of me in the last alley cat I did had brakes, along with the three that came in behind me. The brakeless kids trickled in over the next half hour or so, and the kid who gave me **** about my brake ended up with a big fat DNF.
Wow, that's exactly analogous to my own alley cat experience, right down to the criticism for having a brake (and clipless shoes) by the DNF rider in tight pants with riser bars. The gap between the riders with brakes and those without was pretty huge - almost ten minutes before the brake-less riders started showing up.