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Yes, no brakes in a tradition sense. The bikes are direct drive, fixed gear, with no ability to coast.
They are usually raced on indoor tracks called velodromes.
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Wait, they ride bikes with no brakes?
Yes, no brakes in a tradition sense. The bikes are direct drive, fixed gear, with no ability to coast.
They are usually raced on indoor tracks called velodromes.
There was a guy in Nashville that used one as his daily commute bike. I used to see him going the other way, from time to time, as I drove to my old job.
He was a snobbish cyclist, and from the way he talked about it, riding a fixed gear allowed him another way to be snobbish toward other cyclists. Amazingly enough, he seemed to be one of the few that knew and followed the traffic laws (only other one that I regularly saw doing that, was a woman that always wore an orange vest during her commute).
Last time I saw him post anything on a local forum, he was going on about the "hunky guy" that he had been riding with.