Duluth in Winter on a Fixie

This YouTube video has gotten a decent amount of traffic recently. Check out the icy hills of Duluth from the saddle of a fixed-gear bicycle.

16 Comments

  1. beryl k gullsgate on March 2, 2010 at 9:54 pm

    It’s poetry pedaling in abstraction … it’s a canvas that keeps on flowing beyond the frame.

    What a special trip!

  2. Adam T on March 3, 2010 at 5:22 am

    Nice. What’s the soundtrack?

  3. Swan on March 3, 2010 at 5:34 am

    Hardcore. Love it.

    Duluth has hills steeper than San Francisco and weather worse than New York but none of the traffic. Excellent training grounds for bicycle messengers.

  4. Paul Lundgren on March 3, 2010 at 5:57 am

    Every time he gets to a restaurant there’s a cut. Biking in the snow must make him hungry.

  5. George on March 3, 2010 at 7:42 am

    Maybe Duluth needs to get a zoobomb going.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4AHjCkXTqE

  6. wildgoose on March 3, 2010 at 8:24 am

    Newscut picked this up and posted it (with a credit). Bob Collins is watching, he’s always watching …

    https://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/news_cut/archive/2010/03/five_at_8_-_3310.shtml

  7. huitz on March 3, 2010 at 12:15 pm

    Awesome. That’s not a fixed-gear bike, though.

  8. huitz on March 3, 2010 at 12:18 pm

    Scratch that last post. I thought he was using a coaster brake. Missed the beginning shot of the bike.

  9. woodtick on March 4, 2010 at 8:01 am

    The downhill forward-lean left turn skid through a red light! And pulling into a ‘restaurant’ for food and refreshments I’m sure… I wonder if that was three stops at the Looch, or just two, and did it take place on the same night? Looks like the same storm; we haven’t had many this year.

    Damn, I Love Duluth!

  10. ian on March 4, 2010 at 8:21 am

    Make sure to check out Anthony’s other vids 🙂

  11. samh on March 4, 2010 at 9:11 am

    Sorry to see you’ve now been infected by the “fixed gear culture” as well. The promotion of brake-less, fender-less, helmet-less, bicycle riding on sidewalks as well as the suggestion of cyclists running red lights is not poetic nor hardcore, it just leads to stupidity (look up Ted Shred sometime).

  12. ian on March 4, 2010 at 11:44 am

    Later that winter:

  13. chadp on March 4, 2010 at 12:08 pm

    All queasy cam videos should be required to post a disclaimer up front.

  14. lojasmo on March 4, 2010 at 3:34 pm

    I now understand the hate for fixie riders. What a maroon.

  15. adam on March 4, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    Nothing beats watching someone trying to steal a fixie, though.

  16. Jenny on March 4, 2010 at 5:05 pm

    Are all these people that think he ran a red light talking about when the rider takes a left turn, and you see a red light on the street he is turning onto? Of course that light is red – that is how it works when you take a turn.

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