The challenge was issued by Prolly Is Not Probably on June 8th - who will be the first to pull off a rail grind on a fixed gear. Thanks to good timing and Jeff at All-City Cycles, I happened to be there as the Tricks and Drinks crew from Minneapolis pulled of a few grinds late the night of June 9th, just one day after the call was out. That’s Jesse Hilliard on the right and Mike Carney on the left with the cap on, each of which managed a few rail grinds without any spectacular spills, though there was a bit of blood, a bent fork and a gouged tire when all was said and done.
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finally! fixed gear tricks that don’t look like bastardized 1986 BMX moves! Way to go Minneapolis
Sweet! Where are the pics of the bent fork, gouged tire and blood!? We want to see the carnage along with the glory!!
Video or it didn’t happen.
Jesse hilliard is a bmx kid.
but he’s not doing it on his BMX bike
no video?
The video has to be kept under wraps so they can sell a full length.
Photoshopped
Be better if there was video and they were self confident enough to wear helmets.
Still done better on a skateboard !!
WoW Thats REALLY stupid and pointless.
what’s the deal with these people who are (i assume) so jealous of someone doing tricks like this on a certain type of bike? i ride every one of my bikes like a trials or trick bike as much as the frame and wheels can withstand. sometimes more. it’s all about pushing the limits of what can be done on a fixed gear. BMX started out as some kids racing their stingrays in the 60’s. things evolve. pay attention.
There were a lot of people on the sidelines screaming fairly loudly that you should not under any circumstance jump a Stingray or ride a modified balloon tire bike offroad.
Welcome to the website lecoop, but keep the personal attacks and name calling to some other place. We all like bikes here; cool it.
bmx (the “official” bicycle motocross) actually started in the 70’s, but kids were racing stingrays in the 60’s. google “fietscross” (actually, my mistake… it was the 50’s!) http://www.genesbmx.com/bmx-history-001.jpg
the sustained damage is a result of not being afraid to try something different. as these kids break bikes, companies will modify the designs to withstand a little more abuse. also, these guys will get better at not breaking stuff as they learn.
ride your bike how you want, but don’t be alarmed when everybody wonders why the heck you care so much about how other people ride THEIR bikes.
VIDEO! YES!
http://prollyisnotprobably.com/2009/06/jesse_hilliards_turn.php
I’m not going to argue, but you’re not saying anything the “scene” hasn’t already heard. Mountain bikes experienced similar hating before gaining legitimacy, BMX too. It’s cool, everyone gets it that this isn’t your thing. There are plenty of mountain bike websites out there that would be stoked to hear from you and your full suspension mountain bike that you do hand rail grinds on all the time, and how much you hate people like us.
In fact, we addressed this very topic in an article in issue #11, http://www.urbanvelo.org/issue11/urbanvelo11_p36-37.html
Besides, to say the bikes are not modified is completely wrong. They both have 26″ unicrown mountain bike forks on them for strength and for barspin clearance. Wider than usual rims and tires (certainly wider than the 19-23mm standard on track bikes). Mountain bike bar/stem (illegal equipment on the track). Plastic double straps made explicitly for street riding. These are far more modified than the “first” BMX bikes that consisted of stock Stingrays being jumped in dirt lots or the “first” mountain bikes that consisted of stock coaster brake balloon tire cruisers pointed downhill in a two-wheel drift.
There is more than one thing common to mountain bikes, BMX and current day fixed wheel urban riding; lots of people screaming at the top of their lungs how stupid it is just comes to mind in this case.
Lecoop, so much rage, I can feel you in my tummyspace. If you think more people should be doing stuff the way you do stuff, you should roll up on some fixie riders in your fixie MTB and show em what’s what. Do tricks they can’t do and do it with your superior machine. Maybe they’ll be all like, I wanna fix a MTB and ride rails with it. It would be better and also that Lecoop dude is awesome.
Teh internets is not for winning fights. Everyone loses here. RL is where people see things that are true.
how could this be fake? if super ted can do that on a hubba, then these guys can do it on a rail (small rail).