I'm totally confused.... For you see, they say once you've learned to ride a bike you never forget, and I've not forgot, not one bit... So what's the problem? Well, the problem is that the bikes have changed!
No I'm not talking electric, no I'm not talking mountain or anything like that, I'm talking about the brakes.
You see, I'm right handed, therefore my primary braking hand is my right hand, in a car I brake with my right foot, on a bike I want to brake with my right hand, this is how it is, how it was and how it always should be.
This should be your rear brake, you brake with your rear wheel first, so you don't lock the front up and go over the handle bars.
It's simple safety and ergonomics, and sure as a kind I remember lefties swapping their brake handles.
But... but... we've bought a bike from France... From those duplicitous Francophiles at Decathlon... And the primary brake is the rear brake, but they put it on the left!!!!
They literally put it on backwards.
It does my nut in, that I have to crack the plastic on the molded handle and swap them over... And no, I can't just remove the wire and swap that, because the rear brake wire is a physically different material to the front!
It is infuriating.
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