I’m trying to think of any possible advantage of this over just putting it on the back wheel and I can’t. It’s beautiful.
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If it's mechanically activated you'd get about 0,5% increase in braking power on account of less brakeline
also, fuck it, half the fun about bicycles is jury rigging shit together. dudes rock.
I put a disc brake on my fixie
no, you put a disc chain breaker on your fixie
foot retention
dumb bullshit
This is a fixie, that brake is decorative anyway
Do fixies not have that thing that lets the back wheel coast without moving the pedals?
If they have a freewheel they are single-speed rather than fixed gear
No, because that would be useful and increase safety and comfort at the cost of... basically nothing.
well you coulda told me this 20 years ago and my knees wouldn't hurt so bad.. thanks Obama
Thanks, I hate it
don't Dutch style bikes have brakes controlled by the pedals? is that not this?
No, that's coaster brakes, fixies are different.
Coaster brakes allow you to stop pedalling and still move forward woth your inertia. In fixies you can't stop pedalling otherwise you would be braking.
The image is funny cuz if you are gonna add a hand-brake, makes way more sense to put it in the wheel axle instead of the pedal axle cuz you are still straining the chain.