Why I'm Gonna Go Ride Today: Vol 3 - Brakeless trials

I love this guys simple style. What a smooth, fun, crafty way to operate a bicycle. All black ride is a nice touch too. C2D approved.

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Poll Results: Brakes or Brakeless

Well, how about this.
Majority of our readers are a bunch of brakeless freaks. 38% on them on brakeless baby bikes and 16% on brakeless skinny tire fixie jobbies. That's 54% of you, more then half who chose to either jam them kicks in or do wicked skids. Salut.

Me? I like brakes. My 20 is brakeless simply because I only dink around and don't go fast on it, but my 24, 26 and 700 - I need all the means of slowing down fast I can gather. Brakeless 24/26 is a bit fast/nutty for my taste. I must admit, I do like how "clean" the lines of a bike look minus all the cables/levers/calipers, but oftentimes, when its late at night and the 'ol focus and energy level is not where it should be, I need the comfort of a brake squeeze.

BMX (brakes)	36 (34%)
BMX (brakeless)	40 (38%)
Fixed (brakes)	11 (10%)
Fixed (brakeless)	17 (16%)
24" (brakes)	16 (15%)
24" (brakeless)	12 (11%)
26" (brakes)	12 (11%)
26" (brakeless)	12 (11%)

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Brakes

My Tonic Fallguy needs brakes. Vees. Being that its primarily my trails rig and me being not good enough to ride trails brakeless, I don't have a choice, even if I do enjoy a bit of brakeless street.
So, do I replace my busted SD5 with SD7 or move up in the world? Suggestions?

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AIBLPM October 09

Todays AIBLPM was at an alarming 1.66. Combine that with a brakeless wonder, and its trouble. Why do I have no brakes on my bike? Pads and cable needed a replacement, so I.... I don't know. Cuz it's cool? It does make a few things more fun. But, it has also murdered a sweet pair of shoes already, in about 2 weeks! And it makes it hard to cruise super fast. Stoppers, back on.



I'm having a bit of an issue with the bike, the god damn splined Tree sprocket seems to be STUCK on to my profile Ti spindle, I can't get it off!! Euro bb. Do I just smash the thing off with a hammer? Anyone got advice?

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