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Who used a coaster BITD?

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oldtired:
had a pair of lesters  on a team murray with a coaster brake, bendix one  (still got em )  but i took the pads out  and fitted a caliper,


i then  rode coaster tuffs for ages in the 80's ,along with a Araya aero's  on bendix coasters ,   made drop ins on quarters n kickturns easy ,  mx 1000's which were pretty much the only brake you could get never really worked that well so a coaster as well was the way to go if you wanted to stop on a ramp without slipping back to certain chin damage  :LolLolLolLol:  always had the sprocket welded on though save stripping out the little notches , like having a chain break when they went , straight over the bars.......chin damage :tickedoff:  :LolLolLolLol:

 thought about running one on my ns the other year but never got round to buying one , can see it being interesting learning to ride using one again  :LolLolLolLol:

mrsmudgelondon:
i rode with one as well took me a few days to get use to it.....dont know if i could or would use one today .....

brimfull:
I rode always rode one BITD and my Master still has one now and I still like riding it. Made for  a few worries dropping in on the snake run at Kettering but I always liked it as I was never gonna slip my pedals and mash my shins up  :buck2:
Wilton kick turns still one of my favourite tricks  fistblump

McQUEEN:
I rode with one - they were essential for small ramp tricks like kick turns (all the variations where you could 'stand' on the back pedal and pivot around), rockwalks and rollbacks.

Also essential if your rode freestyle with one of the first rotors as they didn't stop anything!

I also vividly remember cutting out the rivets/bolts on my rear skyway to fit one and I ended up converting quite a few for friends in my Dads garage!

griff:
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