Butt Brake

From YT: Economic, rider-controlling, braking system for bicycle trailers. Patent pending.

Woman builds ingenious butt-operated brake for her bicycle-towed dog trailer (large dog). No sound.
newtboysays...

An excellent idea for people who ride with their *pets, especially on hills.
An upgrade to this might be to make a flexible quick connection to the rear brake cable so it would just operate using the normal rear brake lever, although using your ass to stop is hilarious and fun.

I must admit, from the title, I expected something more like the flexigrip controls on Mr/s Garrison's 'IT'.

Dumdeedumsays...

Yep, either a separate brake lever you can clip on and off or some way of hooking it into the existing brake system would be far better. Butts just don't have the response time, to say nothing of the ungainly pose needed.

Buttlesays...

I haven't tried it, but the butt brake lever seems to me to fit the application pretty well. Cyclists needing quick braking develop the habit of shift backwards on the saddle, or over the back of the saddle anyway. This helps to counteract the unweighting of the rear wheel that occurs with heavy brake application.

With the butt brake, an existing reflex is repurposed -- clever.

Dumdeedumsaid:

Yep, either a separate brake lever you can clip on and off or some way of hooking it into the existing brake system would be far better. Butts just don't have the response time, to say nothing of the ungainly pose needed.

skinnydaddy1jokingly says...

One wrong move and you're going to have to explain to the ER why they need to surgically remove a butt break from your ass...


But i guess you could honestly state that the removal of the stick was painful.... In case anyone ever asks...

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