Breakthrough in braking technology...

[NordieBoy]

"Designed" may be too strong a word really.

[Wolf]

But now I have read the thread are you telling us that this was done deliberately when the bike was made????
Somebody designed it that way?!?!?

"Designed" may be too strong a word really.

Ya beat me to it, ya bugger!

I think the term "cobbled together" might be closer but still carries far too much connotation that the perpetrator may have known what he was doing...