Oh decisions decisions. Once again practicality and asthetics collide. I'm building up my first fixie and I've run into the problem of putting on a front brake and getting machined rims, or running brakeless and getting non machined rims. This isn't a brake vs brakeless argument. I was just curious as to how many people actually went brakeless for their first fixie instead of easing into it and are still alive to talk about it. Cheers.