I've met half of the bicyclists interviewed and captured in the video. And I've only lived here for a year. And I'm not that interesting or smart. The bike community is pretty tight knit. This does allow one to avoid the pretentious ******s and make friends with the cool and knowledgeable folk, however.

The temperature is below 50 degrees for about four and a half or five months out of the year, and the wind and other weather that comes off Lake Michigan is just downright horrid. The bums and bicyclists are tenacious, the cops are almost all ticket-happy white males, the good jobs are scarce, and racism runs rampant.

A Milwaukee winter is just something one has to experience for themselves, I guess.