The Ultimate Brakeless/Front/Rear/How many brakes? thread

Hopefully in laymans terms. http://ligneusbikes.wordpress.com/2012/04/23/brakeless-clueless/

If you can't be bothered to get to the end (or even the start) then the answer is that** front wheel braking, fixed or non-fixed is 2 times more effective than back wheel braking in an emergency stop**. So riding brakeless automatically halves your braking capacity even if you're totally switched on and can stop whenever you want !

Being too lazy to read your linky, I'm still gonna question the 'halves your braking distance' rule. I'd suggest that attempting to stop by skidding the rear wheel only would lead to a significantly longer braking distance when compared to a front brake. My research leads me to put forward the stopping distance ratio of 5:1 based on sweet f.a.