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Spoon Brake
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The earliest type of bicycle brake consisted of a lever which pushed a metal shoe against the tread of the tire. The part that pressed on the tire was shaped like a flat spoon, hence the name. Spoon brakes became obsolete with the invention of pneumatic tires, although spoon brakes on the front wheel, as an emergency back-up to a coaster brake, were still in production in less-developed countries as late as the 1980's.
