Does Andy from I Heart The Monster Hero post here? cos someone posted his picture upthread.
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You cycled behind a guy with a freewheel and no brakes? How'd he slow down?
cycled behind another lad the same way today. Its a very measured cycling style. They never get that much speed up and start slowing down way before they have to stop. They come to a dead stop by a jerking motion down on the pedals to stop them moving.
I hate it when my brakes need tightening. I couldn't do what those lads do. Its all well and good when no one's acting the bollox, but I have at least 1 close call a week, almost all of which require me to brake suddenly.
Both the lads I saw in the last 2 days were couriers.
I cycled home behind a lad yesterday who had no brakes. I stayed behind him out of curiosity as I wanted to see how he acted approaching lights, etc. He was fine actually, but that was without anything unexpected happening. A car door opening out in front of him and he'd be fucked.
You can back pedal on a fixed hub but it will turn the wheel backwards. You can freewheel backpedal as you can on normal freewheel hubs. If you are cycling using your fixed hub you need to keep turning the pedals, as they won't stop turning til the bike stops.
Thats the point of the flip-flop hub. Once side you can use the single-speed but you can coast (ie: the bike can move without you pedalling). The other side is for madsers.
if anyone's into, like, irony, i notice this thread has gone from slagging off hipsters to thrilling about the stylishness of the 20s and discussing 'fixies'....
Are you sure they were freewheels? I know a hell of a lot of couriers and none ride freewheels with no brakes but loads of them ride fixies with no brakes (I live with two such lads. The wiggling you describe sounds like the back wheel lift I know they use. What bikes were they on?
Name and shame Anto!!!!!this'll be gas!
sorry Moose, we got our wires crossed here. Both were on 'fixed-gears', not freewheels, and both were without brakes.
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