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@Brommers
^^^ This. Other than for purely aesthetic reasons, I've never seen the upside in not having brakes on a bike used on the road. There is, after all, no reason why you have to use them if using them is not necessary or appropriate, and the additional weight is hardly significant. I've got F&R brakes on my road-fixed-bike (track-fixed-bike obviously has none). Sometimes I use them. Sometimes I don't. I can honestly think of no occasions whatsoever when I've returned from a ride thinking 'Damn, that ride would have been better without brakes'.
Mind you, my failure to appreciate the upsides of riding on the roads with no brakes could be because riding brakeless is cool and stylish, two things I've never deluded myself I might be.