Hey Brant, thanks for posting about the Sniper Lever. Just to correct you; Cold Forging is cheaper and stronger than "CNC" mahcining a lever, but it is for sure not chaper than melt-forging (how most brake levers are made). This lever is actually more expensive than our previous Sniepr Lever down to the fact that it is fully cold-forged for additional strength and uses our own custom tooling and deisgn. A lot of thought has been put into this lever and we were wanting to make somethign diffrent rather than just rehash whats already on the market. Brakes are awesome and always will be 😜
Brakes have always come and gone. This time it was just a longer brakeless time than previously. Any older rider remembers bmx plus and ride bmx having articles about the brakeless revolution. Anyone who claims they want to save weight needs to ride a mid school bike for a day that weighs 35-40 pounds.
You can put a gyro on a mountain bike top of head tube a second gyro on the bottom of the head tube for shifting mountain biking with manual breaks not hydraulic manual breaks with hydraulic calipers would work with a gyro these are available
Dude, Do your homework before you start talking about something. How do you not know what forging is? It makes me wonder if you know what you're talking about on other topics or are you just talking out of your a$$ on them too?
Imho – the whole no brakes thing evolved out of folks having no clue about mantaining their bikes. Neither how to adjust a brake nor how to true a wheel or what so ever. I ride since about `95 and the number of guys with two lefties and no tool time at all gets bigger and bigger. I´m kinda waiting for the day some bloke asks me about how to use a hammer, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
I don’t get the hype on the article and lever tbh. It’s new tech mixed with old headaches. I’ve NEVER had an issue with mine personally and you know how hard I am on my bike. Or I could just be bias hashtagHINGEGANG
Brakes is a great topic. They are quite a few really good ones on the market now. Once in a blue moon I'll ride brakeless but it gets boring real quick. I heard Davey Osgood's name mentioned here, and he has an eye for spot usage with his brake, as well as being an amazing brakeless rider. That guy amazes me every time I see his IG.
I fractured my heels 2 months ago at the trsils because I didnt have brakes and came into a berm way too hot. I grew up riding brakeless because the gonz was brakeless, and my brakes always broke so I ripped them off. I ordered a set of fly brakes, I am over the whole brakeless thing.
I'm 40, and my kids are 10, 13, and 16… Got a little bit into BMX over the last 5 or 6 years, and have never felt a need to ride a bike without brakes…but we don't do tricks where the cable would get in the way… i would only ever ride a bike without brakes if i was doing those type of tricks, but for street riding I'd have brakes , and have a brakeless bike just for park riding or habe a gyro…
i'm a younger dude and i recently out brakes on and i don't think i'm gonna leave them on for good but maybe occasionally take them off. they help me stop without ruining my shoes and when i stop the back wheel while in the air i can nosedive into the transition better. i suck at riding so i can't do any brake tricks atm but brakes are fun😂😂
Yes they’re back. I have them on my bike.
Hey Brant, thanks for posting about the Sniper Lever. Just to correct you; Cold Forging is cheaper and stronger than "CNC" mahcining a lever, but it is for sure not chaper than melt-forging (how most brake levers are made). This lever is actually more expensive than our previous Sniepr Lever down to the fact that it is fully cold-forged for additional strength and uses our own custom tooling and deisgn. A lot of thought has been put into this lever and we were wanting to make somethign diffrent rather than just rehash whats already on the market. Brakes are awesome and always will be 😜
Brakes have always come and gone. This time it was just a longer brakeless time than previously. Any older rider remembers bmx plus and ride bmx having articles about the brakeless revolution. Anyone who claims they want to save weight needs to ride a mid school bike for a day that weighs 35-40 pounds.
The no brake movement was about as smart as the no helmet movement
In what seems like a bizarre contradiction; I find it easier to ride faster with a brake on my bike.
I see disc break on the back nothing at all on the front some calipers can work with one lever front and back
You can put a gyro on a mountain bike top of head tube a second gyro on the bottom of the head tube for shifting mountain biking with manual breaks not hydraulic manual breaks with hydraulic calipers would work with a gyro these are available
Dude, Do your homework before you start talking about something. How do you not know what forging is? It makes me wonder if you know what you're talking about on other topics or are you just talking out of your a$$ on them too?
Growing up I told all my friends "all breaks do is slow you down, and I aint about that" but I do have them on my second bike, Charlie crum style bike
Imho – the whole no brakes thing evolved out of folks having no clue about mantaining their bikes. Neither how to adjust a brake nor how to true a wheel or what so ever. I ride since about `95 and the number of guys with two lefties and no tool time at all gets bigger and bigger. I´m kinda waiting for the day some bloke asks me about how to use a hammer, I wouldn't be surprised at all.
When i had brakes I worked on my bike more than I rode. That’s what Mx is for
Brakes are dead? 😉
I don’t get the hype on the article and lever tbh. It’s new tech mixed with old headaches. I’ve NEVER had an issue with mine personally and you know how hard I am on my bike. Or I could just be bias hashtagHINGEGANG
I think Brakes are mostly age related. Respectively Riders you mentioned are entering the next phase in their riding.
Brakes is a great topic. They are quite a few really good ones on the market now. Once in a blue moon I'll ride brakeless but it gets boring real quick. I heard Davey Osgood's name mentioned here, and he has an eye for spot usage with his brake, as well as being an amazing brakeless rider. That guy amazes me every time I see his IG.
i concur. Affix/ Khe were into something there!
I fractured my heels 2 months ago at the trsils because I didnt have brakes and came into a berm way too hot. I grew up riding brakeless because the gonz was brakeless, and my brakes always broke so I ripped them off.
I ordered a set of fly brakes, I am over the whole brakeless thing.
They never left, at least not my bikes .. 1988 to present, Front… Back and Coaster!
I'm 40, and my kids are 10, 13, and 16…
Got a little bit into BMX over the last 5 or 6 years, and have never felt a need to ride a bike without brakes…but we don't do tricks where the cable would get in the way… i would only ever ride a bike without brakes if i was doing those type of tricks, but for street riding I'd have brakes , and have a brakeless bike just for park riding or habe a gyro…
i'm a younger dude and i recently out brakes on and i don't think i'm gonna leave them on for good but maybe occasionally take them off. they help me stop without ruining my shoes and when i stop the back wheel while in the air i can nosedive into the transition better. i suck at riding so i can't do any brake tricks atm but brakes are fun😂😂
I’d say with the amount older guys getting back into riding especially since that virus, more brake riders are showing up.