A coaster brake lesson heard yesterday.
Jack came over to shoot the bull for a half hour, he had got a semi-do-it-yourselfer up and running after I sold the guy a wheel, ring and belt.
His stretch cruiser has coaster brakes, but he has an antique Worksman step thru that he motorized a few months ago.
We have been drenched for months, and a friend of his went down his modestly steep driveway on that Worksman, hit the coaster brakes at the end of the drive, and tumbled into the swampy ditch next to Jack's mailbox.
LESSON? Don't let friends or family try out a coaster braked bike, you may adjust to it fine and dandy, but it takes a lot of practice to relay from brains to feet for sudden or wet roads stopping.
There is no way to pass on your experience to a coaster brake rookie. It's not safe.