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@CrazyJames
Mechanical Vandal I personally don't think I own the look of my bike or anything such, and I don't look down on single speed riders in general, but anyone riding fixed with a front brake only, effectively still have rear braking capability (how good that is depends on their own abilities).
Jump to single speed with the same setup and immediately you are removing that, if you want to run a single brake on single speed, I would make it a rear one and not a front one, that is my personal opinion on it, as there are many situations in an emergency where using a front brake could be dangerous or make the situation take a turn for the worse when it doesn't have to, this has been proven time and time again, at high speed, in an emergency I would rather have a back brake than a front brake if I had to choose, OBVIOUSLY two brakes are superior to one brake, but thats not what this is about.