Is it time to start calling out bad cyclists?

why do people do this? surely the bike was purchased with two perfectly good, functioning breaks, assuming it was an OTP bike, as SS's so often are - why remove one?

is keeerazy!

I had to do this on the Ladies Brighton Ride. Clefty lent me a freewheel and a back brake & I neglected to do bike maintenance and fit a front brake. We probably had one. I was shit scared going down those massive hills & feathered the brakes. I've already gone over the handlebars braking suddenly while going downhill fixed.