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Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @09:10AM (#16867051)
Depends 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.
Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by maskros on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:22AM (#16867594)
Europe is full of city bikes with coaster brakes. Everybody here has a bike, not just the hard-core bikers.
Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by baud147258 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @11:07AM (#16867957)
I've rarely seen coaster brakes, especially among the non hard-core bikers here in Paris.
Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:28AM (#16867646)
I 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.
Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by komali2 on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @10:53AM (#16867849)
You don't have hipsters in your town?
Re:Uncontrollability of a bricycle (2014) [video] by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday April 18, 2018 @12:29PM (#16868685)
they ride fat -tire or fixie bikes :)