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Date: 2006-07-19 23:03:34 Topic: brakes....no brakes???? |
alriet recently i was ridin with tim(glass city flat) and he finally talked me in to goin no brakes to get rid of the hassel or brakes and brake pad wear and other stuff like that....we whentr ridin today and i was tryin new tricks like side squeaks pedal squeaks mc circles and when i had brakes i could pull a decade so tim kinda showed me how to footjam deacde which is really weird butr accually seems to be comin together.......the reason i posted this is because i was wonderin wat the goods and bads or brakes or no brakes....to me it seems like since i took the off i can focus more on the trick then on when to hold the brakes and when to let off em......i thought it was going to be harder but seems to make tricks easier thanks for all the help | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 365 Location: Coldwater, MI  |
Date: 2006-07-19 23:22:46 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
I really like having my front brake on even though I only use it for squeakers. It's more convenient for shaving off speed than dragging your foot on a tire if you aren't already in a scuffing position. I dunno though, I could see myself going brakeless in the near future. | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 765 Location: Tampa |
Date: 2006-07-19 23:30:08 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
i snaped a cable maybe half a year ago...i was too pissed to fix it and just ended up takeing both breaks off.  | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 2997 Location: somewherenearcleveland |
Date: 2006-07-19 23:31:48 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
Theres quite a few people that have reported to have gotten way better when they took their brakes off... Myself included... It makes you think different... and if you can grasp it.. you get good fairly quick... I couldn't progress at all for a year.. then I took my brakes off and BOOM! I was learning crap left and right.... brakes seem to intimidate a lot of riders into sticking with the scuffing trick variety and never really try the rolling tricks because for some reason.. a lot of them think that rolling is harder... but its not harder... its just different... I don't find rolling or scuffing more or less difficult than the other... To me they are equal.. and when you think like this, you start to see all tricks as equals... To me no trick seems harder than any other trick... most tricks to me seem like the same difficulty.. it's just a matter of what your willing to put into it to make it happen... if your not gonna dump the time in, your never gonna get it.. trying it every now and then wont cut it.. you gotta do it every day to make progress... My brother has been riding my quamen a lot lately and I've noticed him progressing faster... he's more confident on my bike for some reason... Try it.. give it a chance! I don't like hearing people diss on brakeless when they havn't even given it a chance... you need to ride brakeless for a year to have really given it a chance... and if it don't work out for you, it won't work out for you.. no big deal.. ride however you feel best... I'll support dans comp till bmx companies start selling direct to their customers... | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 9 Location: |
Date: 2006-07-19 23:59:26 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
thanks for all the help i see wat you mean tranqulized i do ride everyday that weather permits and so far im like boom im learnin tricks quicker and better tricks..i can hit pretty much all the beginner tricks(dependin on your scale)and now im learnin a bunch or squearkers so i think im guna stay breakless see if i can keep on this upward pace thanks again guys | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 560 Location: Phoenix, Arizona |
Date: 2006-07-20 00:44:53 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
VIOLATION! Repost Back On a Mac! | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 409 Location: louisville ky |
Date: 2006-07-20 07:34:34 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
yeah , brian is right, it does make you definately think diffrently!!! how can you have an economy w/ nothing to loose? | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 524 Location: Ayase, Kanagawa, Japan |
Date: 2006-07-20 08:14:25 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
I took them off because I'm lazy and cant scuff, so I just roll. I also move around a lot on the bike and I was accidently hitting the brake levers with my knees. not fun http://www.global-flat.com<br> SAM_GUTHRIE - "i read this book once about this and it was called the art of shooting people in the brain and not getting splattered with brain debris or something like that." ...wow | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 316 Location: da south |
Date: 2006-07-20 08:31:20 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
VIOLATION! NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FUCK! Im the "PISS" in your wheaties & you like it. | |
Joined: A long time ago... Posts: 894 Location: G-Boro, N.C. |
Date: 2006-07-20 12:53:02 Topic: Re: brakes....no brakes???? |
I actually started out brakeless, so when I went to riding with brakes it was like a skill jump, I was doing alot harder shit in half the time. I figured if I did it one time I could do it again so off came the brakes. | |
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