Originally Posted by
Cthulhulord
What’s the difference between skids and skip stops? Is it when your rear wheel jumps up instead of dragging along the ground?
Skipping and skidding are not stopping just to be very clear. A stop is a controlled motion to slow the bike down to complete stand still. Skidding is a brown stain in your underwear caused by poor wiping and can wreck havoc on your knees and ankles if used while cycling. Skipping is good exercise but poor for safety as well.
On a velodrome everyone is going in the same direction with the same goal so braking would be quite dangerous but on the roads where everything is completely unpredictable braking is extremely important and could save your life when ruining undies, back tires, knees and ankles to uncontrollably slow down a bit could cause issues.
Aesthetics are great but the aesthetics of being a red Jackson Pollock painting on the pavement aren't so good. Also those cool points you think you scored aren't redeemable for anything anywhere and especially not when you couldn't stop in a controllable fashion. If you are around people who have issues with you having brakes, than I would suggest not being around those people as they don't care about you and probably don't care about themselves either.
Also keep in mind this is an old thread not as old as some other zombie threads but this sub-forum is usually pretty dead and has been for quite a while.