Originally Posted by
Dion Rides
If you're crashing because something runs out in front of you, you have to stop suddenly, or you have to swerve and manuever, I say fight the power and install a brake or get your bike set-up so it's easy to manuever. Losing fashion points is better than crashing, IMO. And, you can still have a sweet looking bike even with safety precautions.
Cue 50 bros with stories about how their crash wouldn't have been prevented by a brake, so the fact that they were riding brakeless with chopped risers in vans without foot retention had nothing to do with it.