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Only if you've got a stupid racing bike with only hand brakes. Coaster/foot/back-pedal brakes are standard issue around these parts, and I wouldn't ever want to
by maskros 8y ago
Only if you've got a stupid racing bike with only hand brakes. Coaster/foot/back-pedal brakes are standard issue around these parts, and I wouldn't ever want to ride a bike without one.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoDepends on how you ride. An adult in the US, you're on a road bike bent over the bars and going 15-20mph. Hands on the brakes at all times. I do a ride every summer with 20,000 like-minded people and if you see even one bike with coaster brakes all week its unusual.
- maskros 8y agoEurope is full of city bikes with coaster brakes. Everybody here has a bike, not just the hard-core bikers.
- JoeAltmaier 8y agoI don't know if all 20,000 people are hard-core. Its just that road bikes are very, very common. Kids bikes might have coaster breaks, sure. But hardly anybody over 15 has one.
- komali2 8y agoYou don't have hipsters in your town?
- JoeAltmaier 8y agothey ride fat -tire or fixie bikes :)
- baud147258 8y agoI've rarely seen coaster brakes, especially among the non hard-core bikers here in Paris.
- maaaats 8y agoWhy is hand brakes stupid? Much better control/modulation, especially with hydraulic disc brakes.
- maskros 8y agoRim brakes either grip too hard or not enough, and sometimes don't work very well in rain, and need regular maintenance and replacement. Coaster brake supplemented by hand brakes for emergency stops just feels safer and more in control in traffic situations.
- komali2 8y agoUnless your feet are on the pedals wrong...
- perl4ever 8y agoBrakes on rear wheels only are relatively ineffective, so I don't understand why you would prefer them. Unless there is such a thing as a front wheel pedal brake, which I have never heard of.
- baud147258 8y ago> stupid racing bike with only hand brakes Or cheap basic road bike.