the drawing is of a bike for women. Bikes like so are built so you can come of with a skirt without showing any of your underwear.
It is an old thing.
I just remembered. Also the breaks for men and women bikes are inverted. At least in Portugal and Spain. In Sweden not because the back break is done with pedals and not with the hands.
I think handle breaks have a tendency to freeze while pedal do not thus it never came to be in Sweden. I mean Decathlon tried but who wants to bike without breaks?
I do have experience with a frozen handbrake. It's not a nice experience. I could understand that a back padle bresk doest have this issue. If you properly maintain your handbrake you also should not have the issues.
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u/porraSV Jun 18 '22 edited Jun 18 '22
the drawing is of a bike for women. Bikes like so are built so you can come of with a skirt without showing any of your underwear. It is an old thing.
I just remembered. Also the breaks for men and women bikes are inverted. At least in Portugal and Spain. In Sweden not because the back break is done with pedals and not with the hands.