What is a hipster? Look at this fucking hipster...

You doing Hacksaws challenge Miro?

Yes. Will you make it down?

I've got to try pushing 48x16 for an hour and a half. I'm probably not there yet!

PJ would destroy most of you n0ob cunts...

He is horribly fast. It's his jewish/aero nose I think.

Yeah, fair play, that was a pretty stupid and OTT summary by me. Sorry, I was battered. I watched the rest of the trailer and it looks really made made, so credit for that. BUT, the usual cliches about how you're literally connected to the bike or how you* move along as the bike moves* smacks of the usual internet-enabled stylised guff. Anyway, I bet the full thing is better than a series of soundbites and, as you say, it isn't meant for knobs like me. I spend a short while in Bristol last week and thought it was an ace town. Gotta love that bridge.

As an aside, the idea that fixed wheel bikes are maintenance-free always cracks me up, given that they're actually very high maintenance when you include having to learn about what is and isn't cool, choosing hats, posting spurious drivel on forums, changing your parts every five mintues etc etc. It clearly isn't about getting out on a bike and the easiest, quickest, cheapest way possible just because you want to feel connected to the road, it's about being part of a big trend that everyone's really into, that's actually a lot of fun. There's way too much pseudo-philosophical naval-gazing involved in trying to justify it.

As for "self-loathing, ex-hipster cynic", is the ex implying that I'm somehow past it? Bastard.

That's fair.

That trailer was quickly whipped up I think in response to a huge number of "what's the point, you can't even go up hills" type comments from non cyclists (or just stupid cyclists?) regards riding fixed in general. Those comments appeared on the Guardian website under this article last week on cycling films in Bristol.

The photo used there is pretty funny. Poseurs! :)