It's funny, since I haven't been on the snow as much the last few years cause of college (every single snowy weekend of my life until I graduated high school to maybe 2-3 weeks on the hill a year) riding fixed, especially brakeless, through city streets is the closest I've gotten to that rush you get from tearing the sh*t out of a hill, espcially for an ex-boardercross junkie. Similarly the snowboard scene from back in the day (like 93-99) feels a ton like the fixed scene today. Yeah you get a lot of ******dumpsters *****ing about poser this and that but in general it's a ton of boss people who love riding and look for any excuse to go out and throw down. Best part about it is that alleycats are way cheaper to enter, involve a crap ton less waiting, tend to be a lot less cold and don't involve judges (especially that crap french one from USASA who had a goddamned grudge against me and never scored me right, to hell with her and her stupid hat... damnit I'm still bitter about that one run).

I've been thinking about putting together a 20'' and trying to teach myself some crap and after watching those vids and the peeps at stockwell park I think I might have to after I get back to maine and can get parts and frames for dirt cheap.