Originally Posted by dombey19

I worked for Schwinn for twenty years and never saw a factory bike with hand brakes and coaster brakes. What would be the logical reason for two separate braking systems? The racer wasn't produced after 1971, so there were no late 70s models. I have seen some bicycles, not factory, with a single hand brake assisting a Sturmey Archer TCW hub, which was a 3-speed coaster brake that didn't produce the ultimate in stopping power.