Originally Posted by
ken cummings
Surely with a fixie you can resist forward movement with enough strength to cause the rear wheel to skid.
There have already been legal challenges to this.
We are talking about safety here and anyone who runs a brake and knows how to use it will tell you that their stopping power is greatly increased by adding a front brake... a rear brake just replaces one's legs as the mechanism by which one can skid their bike.
Skidding is a crappy way to stop your bike... but it does look impressive.