Fixation

Lacks interest and excitement
As avid cyclist, track racer, and former bike messenger myself, I normally get excited about bike films. The cinematography is very good. But this one seems to drag on in slow motion. It's an essay style film with no story line. It's very San Francisco-centric, which is annoying unless you're from San Franciscans, who seem to think that they live in the center of the universe. And the subjects don't seem to be doing anything interesting except riding their bike around. The original MASH SF film is much more exciting and thrilling to watch if you're into fixed gear riding.

fun content, worst mixing i've ever heard
I watched this documentary on Netflix. It follows the course of enthusiasm around this style of recreation and why it's important to those involved. The audio levels are so outrageously out of balance i spent as much time adjusting the volume as i did watching the action. You will be heavily distracted by how the doc instantly changes from a mumbling interview to loud music, and that the levels required to hear a lot of the interviewees themselves are imbalanced amongst themselves, which feels like a set up for a noise complaint. One second after the interviewee stops talking, you will need to immediately turn the volume down, a jagged up and down routine that may remind the viewer of biking through most cities and towns on the planet. Credited for this bipolar cycling nightmare is the mixer/sound editor Jon Greasley. I hope his prospective future clientele will take a few minutes to hear his portfolio to better understand what i'm writing about.

Fun and Inspirational
I enjoyed this film more than I thought I would. I like a lot of cycling films and have definitely been subjected to some horrible crap vintage hipster garbage. A lot of these films try to be artsy and think that the way they ride is so unique and better than what you ride. They also tend to cast or capture only the tattoo'd cigarette smoking, pabst drinking jack wagons who think they are going to go head to head with a car and win. I am not going to lie, thats what I thought I was going to watch. This film does have those people too, but it shows much, much more of the fixed/single speed scene. Instead I was able to see what most people don't see or know about the single speed bike! The fun, the racing, and the friendship of these guys. Not everybody rode the same or had the same bike, some guys only road on the track pushing themselves to accomplish the speed that many think is only achievable on a bike multiple gears. I also saw that unlike a lot of other cycling, it was not...

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