"Could I have come to a full stop within 15 feet going 45mph down a hill? Nope! "

45mph on a fixie? case closed you are insane!

i don't care about the spiritual mysticism surrounding the brakeless fixed mentality... at some point in your life there may come a time when you can't go left or right or stop fast enough and you'll have to go down, and you may have been able to avoid going down if you could've stopped much quicker, and hopefully you won't get too badly hurt... but when i get hurt i don't want it to be for what other people think of me or my bike (fashion)..