<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Sep 9, 2009, at 1:20 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Andrew Tarpinian schreef:<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#006312"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><br></font></font><br>So... what do you do if you have to make an emergency stop?<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Use the front brake :)</div><div><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>You don't drive stick, do you? :) If you'd shift down gears to slow <br>down, that would be a sure way to break your gearbox/kludge quickly.<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Well I did, but have not owned a car in about 10 years. I am not talking about dropping into 1st from 5th, just the fact that when you downshift you feel can feel that resistance, on a geared bike, wen you downshift there is no resistance because you are running a freewheel.</div><div><br></div><div>Maybe my car analogy does not make sense outside of my head. Basically less is more.</div></div></body></html>