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If you go out riding you may find out more and more riders as late are chosen to ride
brake less. Some people do it because they have issues with mechanical inclination. They
just can't fix their bike up very well, other people do it cause it allows them more freedom
on their bike. For me personally, I don't think the brake less is the right choice for
me. So then basically you want to make sure that you stop, it's a safety issue and it
could be a real concern if you're at a skate park or something. You're just taking your
brakes off and you don't have the necessary bike handling skills to control your bike
and make sure that you're stopping. You're going to start running into people and running
into people is a very quick way to make sure that you're not going to be popular with all
your friends at the skate park. Your brake set up have a lot of different options. For
me personally, I choose to use to run a straight cable rather than a cable detangler. It's
a little bit wider and easier to set up at the same time. It also wears out a little
faster so I have to replace my cables more often than some of my friends were riding
cable detanglers. If your brakes are not working very well you want, there's a couple of tips
that you can use to make sure that your brakes are working a little bit better. Having a
rim that's chrome plated will actually allow your brake pads to grab your rim a little
better, making sure that rim is also clean is a necessary part of having good brakes
and also picking proper brake pads. Right here I'm running a cool stop sanding brake
pad. It's one of the crispest brake pads on the market, basically you have a whole combination
of simple systems here working together to give you a really good set of brakes. Another
final issue, that you generally want to leave your brake pads toed in a little bit. It basically
means that as your wheel is rolling forward if you want the bottom side of your brake
pad to contacting to the top side. So basically if I grab my brake, this portion down here
actually touches the rim before this portion up here and what that does is that keeps the
brake pad from shattering. Basically it won't give these a high speed vibrations that happen
when this part here touches down. First the brake pad actually reflects in and bounce
out and grab again and it basically shatters. This happens very fast and creates a pretty
horrible squeaking noise. It can actually seem as though you're running over a flock
of ducks to a point where you have horrible noise and also is a disconcerting noise with
your bike. So basically take a couple of minutes to dialing your brakes. Make sure that all
your cables are properly lubricated, make sure that you're running chrome rim brake
pads and you'll be very happy with your brake set up.