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Old 08-09-17, 11:45 AM
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I wish I had been taught some tumbling tricks when I was a teenager and resilient. But it didn't happen. I find the best approach for me is to minimized crashes, especially the ones with likely bad outcomes. (I am near obsessive re: brakes, both having good stoppers but more important, predictable stoppers that will be forgiving in a panic grab. I have taken to "de-powering" dual pivots calipers with V-brake levers and still love the very predictable stopping of the old Mafac brakes.)

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