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Living in the peak district it's hard to imagine some of these being ridden safely on the roads and hills around here
Horses for courses, innit? I like two brakes, and any sensible road-fixed has two levers anyway so having the second caliper is a no-brainer on converted road bikes, but one is enough in many locales and track frames need a lot of extra work to have two brakes in an aesthetically satisfactory way.
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Living in the peak district it's hard to imagine some of these being ridden safely on the roads and hills around here.
The single brake variety mostly seem to be modified track or track inspired bikes which seems to me to be a different thing to a road bike.
Nice as some of them are.