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@Smallfurry
People should ride safe!
If you feel this is best achived with or without brakes, with or without helmet, hi-viz or rapha, personally I dont care. As long as while assembling a bike, while riding, and while kitting yourself out, personal safety and the safety others, is considered over asthetics.
I can only speak for my own style of riding but during the winter I use my rear brake almost exclusively, and in the summer the front. (inbetween I fall off a bit and then adjust). I tend not to use my brakes much (not a racer), but feel that I need the option to brake either wheel, in order to ride safely.
When I built my fixed, I planned out my gearing, and bought a 16t track cog and a 17t freewheel. As I got further into the build I decided that I did'nt really want to fit a rear brake (could'nt face drilling such a nice frame), and as such have never fitted the freewheel. I think maybe some people buy a track frame and come to the same conclusion as me, yet fit the freewheel regardless. This would be the wrong reason to ride monobrake.