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09-02-16, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by TMonk

I do understand it, I'm just being a tough critic. It's not a good excuse!

It's not an excuse. It's a defective gene. We can't help ourselves.

09-02-16, 06:11 PM

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Before I had two kids a wife and a mortgage, I rode brakeless in NYC traffic daily.I like knowing that I can but choose not too.

09-03-16, 12:34 AM

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I do understand it, I'm just being a tough critic. It's not a good excuse!

I havet heard that excuse in a while and I never understood the need to justify it. Is it so bad to admit that it's cool and all your buddies are doing it? I go brakeless ocassionally because it's fun but it's also exhausting so I put the brake back on.

09-03-16, 03:50 AM

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Before I had two kids a wife and a mortgage, I rode brakeless in NYC traffic daily.I like knowing that I can but choose not too.

That's all cool until your kid beats you at Monstertrack.

09-03-16, 04:16 AM

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Originally Posted by 79pmooney

An observation here. I have never met anyone with my miles and years of riding fix gears who has done it without brakes. Not even half my time and miles. (That half would be 20 years and 50,000 miles.)

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And my pet peeve - brakeless fix gear riders who draft me, especially unasked.