two guys here just bought a tandem track bike. They had it the last time I was at the track.

Yeah, but you gotta ride your tandem track bike one the street. brakeless.

"breakless"

Still happens to this day: https://www.usacycling.org/news/user/story.php?id=5268

They rode it in the last local training race.
trying to find some pics....

I don't get why people think a fixed gear bike is a "lifestyle." Its not, its just a bike.

I disagree a little. Yeah, I ride a bike. I also often tech at a bike shop and run a small company that sells fixed gear-related products/parts/accessories. My wife is just as much into bikes as I am (thankfully) and the majority of what I do every single day has to do with bicycles. I would say that might qualify as a "lifestyle" (for lack of a better term).

But - I don't go out of my way in attempt to glorify something that just is.

Being a cyclist is a lifestyle. Being a fixed-gear cyclist is not. The guys in the video are cyclists that prefer fixed gear bikes.

Just like being a runner is a lifestyle, and being a runner that prefers marathons is preference.

There is no need for fg riders to segregate themselves...which seems to be exactly what they were trying to do in the mid 2000s by refusing (or resisting) the accouterments of normal cyclists (e.g. clipless pedals, cycling shoes, water bottles, cycling kits, ...) that were all purely functional items that solved real daily problems, but were still avoided like the plague.

I don't consider myself a "cyclist". I am, however, a guy who enjoys riding fixed gear bikes. Believe it or not, there are people who do certain things just because that's what they like to do. I also haven't touched a comb in over 5 years. Meh.

"Normal" cyclists don't usually use clipless pedals, cycling shoes, and other cycling kits. Those are usually just guys that take cycling a bit more serious than the average person. I consider myself a cyclist under the premise that I ride a bike everyday but I'm not gonna start wearing rashguard looking shirts, spandex shorts, and cycling shoes either. Unless I'm using the label "cyclists" incorrectly.

will this be freely available?

Fanx Wittle Buddy!

Video=Very over dramatized, with the music, flashyness and all.
However, I'm a sap for documentaries, so MAY give it a try...not terribly stoked though.

"Even though you don't have brakes, you can still stop pretty fast"

to smooth playback, try switching from html 5.

Not really. I see more and more people with clipless shoes and spandex on (at least out here). Plus with the advent of clipless sneakers and other non roadie shoes its now harder to tell. I wear spandex bibs everyday, you would never know unless I told you though.

funny how the polo rider they showed was SS.

Yeah, I was thinking something similar, only it was "this music is bothering me."

adaptation is so good because nicholas cage isnt acting.

If only he was a miserable, creepy, piece of **** in every film he does.

the best performances are when actors are just being themselves.

this makes no sense to me, they don't segregate themselves, it's a specific area of cycling so people who share the interest naturally focus on that thing. Marathon runners and track athletes don't have much in common, so marathon runners have a separate lifestyle - so they have magazines, competitions, movies blah blah. Plus why focus on marathon running at all, when cars solved those daily problems years ago?