Strange Rear brake conversion on track frame, on a £1,300 quid bike good or bad?

ITS NOT a FUCKING BODGE!
it was designed to allow Keirin riders to train on the road.
those fuckers are professionals don't you know.

FUCK this thread is pissing me off.
learn your shit first then argue.

And its buyer beware, though if it was 14 I'd be surprised if the bike wasn't set up ideally for a london cruise, albeit without the brake holes, as to allow a bit of nice fashion.
I'd also be fine with seeing the following, which are done all the time:

1. A rape of a really nice old road frame
   
2. A gear hanger on a track bike
   
3. Vert drop fixed with no brakes (potential for chain jump higher)
   
4. Risers on an njs bike
   
5. Deep V wheels for anything other than the aero benefit
   
6. Aerospokes, disc wheels (not for polo).
   
   

If it gets the person riding, fuck it. I literally couldn't give less of a shit.
And again, those brakes are not a bodge, they're a really, really carefully designed product.

• if you ever take your bike to a track they are pretty fucking easy to remove.
  
  

and breathe