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Old 03-28-09 | 07:19 PM
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Flimflam
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From: Toronto, ON, Canada

Bikes: 70s Leader Precision w/Shimano 600 (road), IRO Rob Roy (Fixed)

Originally Posted by old scratch
no there isnt. brakeless is thorougly impractical. 100% of the folks running brakeless are doing it to be cool. brakeless is slower and more dangerous. and it is quite a trick to be both of those things at the same time.
Don't speak for me, thanks.

The tektro canti's I installed seized in the winter. I didn't use my front brake during the ice/snow period because, well, that's just asking for trouble - and when I have the control of a fixed wheel in those conditions, it didn't make sense to risk spilling myself over the road just to use the brake (which doesn't work too well in that gak anyway). The cantilever arms themselves are seized onto the fork mounts, and despite me beating the crap out of them to try and get them off, even with WD-40's help, they aren't moving. Previous to the winter, these brakes worked *very* well I should note.

So because I can't afford a new fork or a road caliper right now, I'm running brakeless. It wasn't so much a choice but more a biproduct of my situation (and, to be fair, probably my lack of grease when installing the lever arms).
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