Originally Posted by
kaiju-velo
the downtube brake is just silly--
why, why. . .
In some states a bike has to be equipped with a brake or you get a ticket. These setups are usually workarounds for legal compliance by people too immature to realize that if you HAVE to mount a brake it might as well be a functional one.
Maybe they're worried about losing street cred by riding a brake you can actually use, dunno