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Dont you think though it may also be that those with no braks and fixed are probably more experienced at this and more suborn and know it all than the potential for us to save a life with a free wheel and 1 brake?

That's certainly the assumption (for the first part anyway, you kind of lost me on the second part). Whether it has any basis in reality, I'm not sure. I've certainly seen some extremely skilled fixed gear brakeless riders, but I've also seen some absolute stinkers.

But i do agree with you that this is social conditioning. Its well known that this group has a high number of riders with very high seat posts, deap section rims, Sidis, Lopro/'classic' frames, cycling caps.

And darkwave albums. Big tings in 2010.