Typical London Tonight reporting

[Diver]

I had one as a young lad in South Africa in the 70's, bloody scary thing it was too, especially when you got up speed...

Backpedal and brake! Brilliant

[darmstadt]

Backpedal and brake! Brilliant

Yeah, but if your were going some speed sometimes that didn't work too well and you would go flying over the handlebars. Brilliant for powerslides though

[Diver]

Yeah, but if your were going some speed sometimes that didn't work too well and you would go flying over the handlebars. Brilliant for powerslides though

and there was the pedal backward and back-brake dismount!

Cool if you timed it just right

[BoredBloke]

BMX bikes didn't have any gears

The Grifter did didn't it? My mate had a Grifter and I had one which had this back pedal brake thing which simply stopped the back wheel dead using a drum in the middle of the wheel. Our road was covered in long black lines of rubber because of that.

[Shimano105]

Great for the souplesse and tree trunk thighs as well. Rode one for 5 years now.