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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait brakeless????? That's just a bad idea. Who thought of that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd argue it spread from NYC bike messengers originally and they did that because they had to use their own bikes for the job, at which point taking the bike with the lowest amount of maintenance needed (i.e., brakeless fixie) does make sense, materially.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That makes sense, but doesn't the skidding wear the tires much faster? And if your brakes break that doesn't stop you from delivering, you just don't have brakes now (until you're able to fix them) right?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That makes sense, but doesn't the skidding wear the tires much faster?

Sure, but if you weren't doing it for the culture you'd keep that shit to a minimun and try to go with the flow more. There's some other considerations here, bike theft, all the other parts of a brake that aren't a brake part and could go wrong etc. My point is mainly that it wasn't birthed from being real fucking dumb, but real fucking poor.

And if your brakes break that doesn't stop you from delivering, you just don't have brakes now (until you're able to fix them) right?

Well if you don't need them, why have them in the first place?