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If you're going to run a singlespeed with one brake, you have to regularly check and change your brake cable.
Way back in the day, my front brake cable snapped on such a bike, on a hill trying to slow at speed and scared the bejesus out of me. Luckily, it was a long hill, the lights were in my favour and I somehow stopped using the foot between the back wheel and frame malarkey. Didn't learn though, broke a chain on a brakeless fixie later on in life - crashed that time.
So the moral here is that its always really nice to have a backup, even if you never use it. But if there is no back-up, learn to avoid failure through maintenance etc.