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@Smallfurry
I live in Norway, and while I accept that braking with your legs gives you direct feedback on the quality of the road/ tire contact (which hand brakes dont), I would'nt ride fixed during the winter if you paid me.
Its pretty much for the same reasons, that I have a fixed for road use, but am building a SS for off-road use. Sometimes I need to adjust pedal position or simply freeze my body (no pun intended). Now people ride fixed off-road, tis true, but these people have a level of bike control far beyond my own (and possibly bigger balls).
Hopefully next year I'll be riding a newly built SS 29r during the winter.
Cant really ever see myself going 'fixed on ice' though.