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I work in a small LBS in town and we won't work on fixies without brakes, not even a tube replace. We've also noted more than a few fixie riders coming in and having a front brake fitted...
They come to you and ask for a front brake to be fitted but you send them elsewhere since you don't work on bikes with no front brake?
M_V
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I was at the cycle courier world championship in the then-derelict Docklands back in about '94 I think, and a few NY riders came over, and it was there that I first saw a fixie with no front brake. I was amazed tbh, I'd ridden fixed for years as it was good training for racing, but I'd never even considered riding without a front brake. I still wouldn't.
As an aside, I work in a small LBS in town and we won't work on fixies without brakes, not even a tube replace. We've also noted more than a few fixie riders coming in and having a front brake fitted since the Charlie Alliston incident.