The revision of the first trailer for TRAkTION. The film takes the approach of a documentary, investigating fixed gear bicycles and some of the people that ride them. My apologies to those of you who found the first trailer offensive and pretentious. All I can say is that it was a bad editing choice, I myself am still very new to it all and used this project as a way to learn more about fixed gear.

And then I saw that logo on the shop window.

And reconized it as a “Benny Gold” logo (he also did the Mash logo). And that I like! 

For those of you that regularly read the blog you’ll know that Saturday I posted the trailer for my new video, TRAkTION. Never in my wildest dreams would I anticipate the attention the video has gotten since I put it up. In the last 24-hours, I’ve managed to offend the fixed gear community and for that, I’m sorry. My intent was create an investigative video on a culture I’ve witnessed grow over the past few years. I’m new to the scene and should make it very clear that I’m a filmmaker, not a rider, so my approach was to make a video about the exploration of a culture that is unfamiliar to most, including myself. I decided to take the video down from the internet out of respect for Eric and LBFG, it was never my intent to bring bad press to their shop. I’ll be reediting the trailer within the next day or so and I still plan to complete this project. For those who have supported it, thank you. For those who hated it, I can only impact those opinions with the final product.

Read more at Bike Snob NYC and Prolly don’t forget to read the comments, it’s so funny!

A documentary film exploring Southern California fixed gear riders and the culture surrounding the scene.