[lutach]

I have motors that could be as old as some of you young RCers here. I still have many of my Aveox's from 1994 and they are still good. I have never used mechanical brakes and have never had a good motor's life get shorten by using it to brake.

Now a mechanical brake is good for setting up brake bias, but that's only for people who got used to driving nitro's. Motor braking is much simpler. Mechanical braking will add weight, more parts to fail and there's always the need to replace the disk and pads which will be often when a brushless is set up at much higher speeds then a nitro.