Originally Posted by sp00ki
Unless you're not using it. Jesus christ, we already get that you've never ridden fixed, can you please stop illustrating it for us time and time again??
Here, a little info that google apparently doesn't teach you:
When you ride fixed with a front brake, you stop with your legs. The vast majority of stops you perform are done without ever using your brake. From TIME TO TIME you perform emergency stops with your brake. This occurs roughly one out of every twenty five (or less, as can be seen in posts above) stops. The majority of stopping is done with the legs-- not with the brake.
Please keep your posts to the road forum, assuming that you ride anything with two wheels at all and aren't completely full of **** all around.
God you're ****ed. As far as I know there is very poor temporal distribution of stopping force so just because you need it infrequently with a fixed gear does mean you need less of it. The extra stopping power you need from a front brake fixed IS THE EXACT ****ING SAME as the extra stopping power you need from a front brake with a freewheel.
Anyway there is absolutely no reason why you have to stop with your legs if you have a front brake.
There are a lot of ****ups in the road forum but when one really wants to be amused by peoples complete lack of reasoning skills and overall idiocy there is really no substitute for ss/fg