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>>Sounds good. I suppose though you have to brake a lot to build up potential, thus needing to replace the brakes more often, with the power it requires to make new brakes. Ain't no such thing as a free lunch :-)
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>I think the opposite is true. You use the brakes less because the 'dynamo' itself acts as a brake. Same as riding a bycyle down hill with a dynamo - the dynamo slows you down.

Sort of like engine breaking when you select a lower gear?

I remeber those "fixed-wheel" bikes where you braked by retarding the peddling, esp. on those quads with the bench-seats that you hire at the seaside.

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>There were buses made for a while with a flywheel. When stopping the bus the brake pedal actually engaged the flywheel so that it built up a spin. This was then fed back into the transmission to assist the bus when starting off again....