From my personal experience I prefer riding a fixed wheel in the wet as you get a better level of feedback from the road plus far more modular braking & as you rightly point out if you slide the back end you are much less likely to come a cropper than the front end.
From my personal experience I prefer riding a fixed wheel in the wet as you get a better level of feedback from the road plus far more modular braking & as you rightly point out if you slide the back end you are much less likely to come a cropper than the front end.