brakeless

• “Elvis 'excess-slurred words could barely be made out at his concerts eight years before that half-century milestone he'd never make, a sad mess and a brakeless freight train going downhill fast.”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Fixed-gear riders are no longer content to just bomb around town on their brakeless track bikes, racing from one dive bar to the next.”

  Wheeling Through The Weekend « PubliCola

• “In a paper on abortion (The Problem of Abortion and the Doctrine of Double Effect, 1967), she used what became a much-cited example to pinpoint fine distinctions in moral permissibility where an action has both good and bad results – the dilemma facing the driver of a suddenly brakeless trolley-bus that would hit five people unless he steered it on to another track into only one person.”

  The Guardian: Philippa Foot obituary

• “To see the devastation first hand, I traveled to his village in a windowless, brakeless Land Rover that was shot at by rebels.”

  The Huffington Post: John Heffernan: Two Genocides and the Perpetrators Remain Free

• “This link between brakeless riding and "ass cancer" is the medical breakthrough that every worried parent of a budding "fixter" has been waiting for--in fact, it would not surprise me in the least to learn that the poster is at the center of a vast parental conspiracy.”

  The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding?

• “So if the brakeless riding causes cancer and the tight jeans are squiching their pant yabbies then the fixeraty will eventually become extinct...sounds good.”

  The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding?

• “The thrill of risking ass cancer AND lung cancer is going to prolong the whole brakeless fixie thing.”

  The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding?

• “Same goes for the front brake, if you rather go brakeless.”

  Archive 2010-02-01

• “You realize that hipsters riding brakeless fixies are probably also smokers.”

  The Indignity of Bike Month: (What's So Funny 'Bout) Cleats, Love and Understanding?

• “Milwaukee polo players are not "fixie hipster douches" or what ever someone said earlier. none of those words apply here... 90% of the club fides freewheel but there a still a handful of amazing players that are riding brakeless fixed.”

  "I'm Your Mama," Quoth Necessity to Invention

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