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Actually a police officer can tell a bicyclist what to do in the form of a ticket. I remember people getting ticketed for breaking the law on a bike many times in Portland.
Except when certain members of your town council are holier then thou cyclists and have put though a town ordinance allowing it.
Like I said its legal where I live except on a few very busy sidewalks where even the most hard core bicyclists will admit its extraordinarily dangerous. For the rest of the place its legal. To be fair though I have not tried to do much about it so I should take some blame.
Do you have some purpose for putting obviously false statements like this in your posts?
Sounds like you need to learn how to ride a bike. And/or adjust your front brake. Got the correct shoes on it?
You just need to stop posting on this thread. You haven't even the slightest clue as to how these bikes work, which is nuts because there is literally nothing to them. you honestly don't understand how a fixed gear bike in motion would have more difficulty stopping???????
go take one for a spin.
In order to stop a fixed gear bike on a dime you have to lock up a front brake because of the momentum of the fixed gear. Doing this will launch you over the handlebars. They don't stop like a free wheel, which is why these bikes are constantly blowing through intersections.
You can apply both front and back brakes, but you're best off taking your feet off the paddles, or start applying backward pressure. I simply do not see the point in riding a bike like this.
"typo"? No, wrong word
and it is still happening!
that's OK, I'm sure this one will be deleted, too.
I don't know how Finn's p[ost survived, being as it refers to a deleted post!
Except when certain members of your town council are holier then thou cyclists and have put though a town ordinance allowing it.
Like I said its legal where I live except on a few very busy sidewalks where even the most hard core bicyclists will admit its extraordinarily dangerous. For the rest of the place its legal. To be fair though I have not tried to do much about it so I should take some blame.
I actually have no idea where you live so I cannot speak specifically where you are. Maybe there are certain members of your town council that are holier than thou cyclists that have put forth ordinances that have allowed bicycling on the sidewalk.
All I can do is state that I am against people biking on the sidewalk, but understand a bicycle infrastructure needs to be in place to make it easier to not need to bike on the sidewalk.
Do you have some purpose for putting obviously false statements like this in your posts?
Sounds like you need to learn how to ride a bike. And/or adjust your front brake. Got the correct shoes on it?
That wasn't a false statement, that was my opinion. I am well educated on how to ride my bike. I understand every inch of my bike seeing that I built it and personally selected every part that went into it.
And I still would never just grab my front brake without grabbing my back brake as well and would rather use my back brake over my front brake because I value my safety when biking.
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When you're stopping - in a car, on a bicycle or on foot - your weight shifts to the front. You see this happen every day. When you're running and stop suddenly, you have to put a foot out in front of yourself to keep from toppling forward. In the same way, when you stop a car, it "nosedives" as more weight goes to the front wheels.
When stopping your bike, the weight also goes to the front wheel. Try a little experiment: Walk along next to your bike. Squeeze the front brake lever. The bike will stop quickly, but the rear wheel will rise off the ground.
Also try squeezing the rear brake lever. Braking will be weak, and the rear tire will skid.
The same things happen when you're riding. If you rely too heavily on the rear brake, the rear wheel will skid and wear out the rear tire quickly. On the other hand, you can go right over the handlebars if you use the front brake too hard.
How, then, do you get a powerful stop without risk? There's a trick to learn. Use the rear wheel as a signal to tell you how hard to apply the front brake. You become an antilock braking system for your bicycle. Bicycling Street Smarts, Chapter 6: Using your Brakes
This is common knowledge when biking because it applies the laws of physics. You grab that front brake too hard when biking, like stopping quickly in an emergency, your face will say "hi" to the pavement.
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