Originally Posted by 79pmooney

Fix gears and braking have as little to do with each other as gears and braking. The term "fix gear" means simply a gear system of one chainring in front and one cog in back locked to the wheel. It says nothing about the brakes on the bike or lack of. Some of us have been riding fix gears with brakes on the road longer than most of today's fix gear crowd have been alive.

Ben