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Just to give another perspective on skidding. I skid from a normal seated or slightly standing pose. I think I'm running a light gear relative to everyone else which makes this much easier for me, but having to lean way over the bars in an extreme situation doesnt sound too cool to me. I want to keep a well centered stance while im doing weird **** on my bike to stay versatile.

Gear light, accelerate, spin, brake easily.

-alex

ps. once again, I am riding 42-17 right now.

I took my front brake off for a day. I gained magical powers, like the ability to fly and to talk to animals. The ESP was a bit creepy, though, so I put my brake back on.

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Originally Posted by adroitfixed

You ride more cautiously, you are forced to pay more attention to enviroment and focus all your attention on riding your bike....

I ride focusing on never being surprised. I am looking out at every possible danger, every road obstacle, I train myself to be as defensive of a rider as possible.

The "safe" brakeless rider is a mature one who is at "one" with his/her bike and is completely aware of his/her enviroment.

This is excellent riding technique for riding any type of bicycle.

I agree that riding fixed/brakeless fine-tunes this focused attention. I find myself using more concentration and focus when riding my geared bicycle now that I regularly ride fixed (and i am a pretty hyper-attentive rider to begin with).

Maybe fixed gear bikes should be used for training beginning cyclists--kind of like learning basic photography on a Dories.