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I haven't seen it yet...as I'm on a train..but can't wait to see my beloved Veto on the box...but hoping they cut all my lame tricks....
We figured the piece was gonna get made anyway and in light of the recent negative media exposure it would be better to "attempt" to have some sort of control.....we told him we weren't prepared to talk about "brakeless", alley-cats or any other stuff that might be detrimental....we're happy to come across as nerds......we are..... and we tried to talk about the subject based on our experience....we also tried to mention the many different facets such as polo and trixie chix and the fact that it's no longer a curryer domain and it's great to see so many people on fixed bikes.
Mike was a really nice bloke and very keen on cycling and loved trying out my Veto...he was keen to portray the fact the transmision acts as brake and filmed a section explaining this....
We coached Mike on the use of the phrase "fixed wheel" and he did start saying it in many of the takes...however I guess these were not the best for tv purposes and got edited out.
Like I said haven't seen it yet but as it was gonna get made anyway....figured it might be better to have us old fogies rather than someone talking about brakeless and illegal street races which might have happened.....
So no Rollapaluza plug eh?....oh well.