Originally Posted by LarrySellerz

I think most people don’t know how to emergency stop. The problem is people are too reliant on the back brake, it’s not effective at all in an emergency. You can stop hard enough with the front that the back wheel becomes almost unweighted, and any braking will just make it skid. When talking to experienced people in real life, I’ve heard stuff like you get 30% of your braking power from the back, which is entirely untrue. This was in context of my back brake being broken and I was not worried about it.

This is weird advice but a good way of learning how to emergency stop is to just disconnect your back brake. It’s really only useful for minor speed adjustments in a group, and to avoid excessive wear/heat on the front, but that’s just my opinion. Of course it’s always nice to have a backup brake in case something horrible happens. My shoe is messed up because I had to lock the back wheel up with my foot after a front brake failure and it ripped a big chunk of rubber out.