Isaac, are you seriously going to commute on a bike with no more than a front brake?

Only yesterday, a motorist took a right turn inches from my front wheel (we drive on the right side here, as opposed to the wrong side ) on a downhill steet. No doubt I would be writing this from the hospital if I had had a single front brake, and worse still my beautiful carbon friend would be in god knows what state. Granted, this is Paris and French drivers are notoriously careless. But still ...