Joined: Jul 2007
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From: Santa Barbara
Bikes: SE Quadrangle, '82 Venus NJS, '03 Bianchi Pista, '86 P'sonic Mt Cat, Fat City Yo Eddy '91 + '93, B'cuda A2E, '86 Trek Elance 400, '88 Centurion D.Scott Expert, '88 Fisher Mt Tam (and no longer with me: SE OM Flyer, Umezawa/B-stone/Samson NJS)
with all due concern given to increased traffic and peds, if you are proficient brakeless you will be fine. you hear the odd story now and again about brakeless ticketing, but it seems more urban myth and/or consequence to a crash than anything that happens regularly.
and as noted above, LOTS of people are riding brakeless.