Ooooh, I also wanted to share this. My brother sent this to me and unlike most fixed gear bike tricks, I’m awe struck. Although I’d be impressed if he were on any bike and not just because it’s a dirty hipster fixie.

Alex is pretty well, err, fixated on the fixed gear scene these days, in the same way I’m fixated on the camera scene. I have to say again that I’m not typically impressed with the fixed gear tricks. Like, really?

A crowd is formed around these guys. A crowd. These guys are at the 07 NACCC. The champs! Fuck this guy, indeed sir! I didn’t go out of my way to find this video. It was right there along side the first one. This constitutes the majority of fixed gear videos I see. Admittedly I don’t see many, but the only thing missing from this one is the guy draping his one leg over the handlebar while moving down the street at 6 mph in the fabled ‘king of the hipster’ pose. I know the fixed gear nature of the beast adds an element of difficultly but I’m still left cold.

Serves you right. I’m doing a lot of fixed gear and hipster bashing here because it makes me laugh but I love the simplicity and aesthetic of these bikes as well. I wish I could have a fixie but it just doesn’t make sense. I’d get to my first hill and have to walk it. Then I’d get to the top and have to walk it down. It’s simply too mountainous around here. Fixed gear bikes belong in the city. There’s a hill on a regular ride of mine that I’ve rocketed down at 55mph. My legs and the peddles with a fixed gear bike on that hill would be moving faster than science.