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Not if your front brake is shit (especially in the rain) road bike brakes can at times be pathetically weak, especially if like me your too cheap to buy decent pads.
I have dual pivot ultegra brakes on my geared bike and neither front or back can lock up the wheel.On my fixed I have an old campy single pivot which works only very slightly. But pedal braking on fixed wheel guarantees back wheel lock up just as you want it if you have the skill.
So for some, brakless fixie skidding is a faster/better controlled method of stopping. This is especially true in the rain.