Red Bull Eye in the Sky was a fixed gear, track bike race around Auckland City, New Zealand. There were 5 checkpoints around the city and riders had to collect a token at each checkpoint. If a rider was running with a brake they had to visit a 6th checkpoint.
If you think these guys weren’t hauling enough ass, skip to 6:40. What?!
Rainier Schaefer took 1st place with a time of 19.22min. And he hauled ass.
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this song is fucking dope!!!
Reminds me of Premium Rush.
0:40 for the big Drop!
I'm from Nz been in Melbourne Aussie 10 years, nice to see natures finest holding a primo event, no way the "nanny state" I'm in would do this, unfortunately, red bull or not.. Had no idea it was as pop in NZ as in AUS… Nice!
Rainier schaefer is the guy followed from the motorcycle camera….. look for MASH Tour of California 2009 on vimeo
what were the songs/tunes?
cool
if i was driving a car i run right into them
Was thinking. Why the explosion but it hasn't then.. Even lil ol Wanganui has a fair amount of decent track bikes..
i like the song, its a good instrumental to ride to
Wins first place and says "Nice work-out" @ 7:50
fuck, that song got boring
It’s called an Alley Cat race. Messengers have been doing them since the 80s
they had better watch out, the cars are driving on the wrong side of the road
Dame nice fixie I have one to
You're cool.
fixed gear
Kinda boring with no traffic. Let's try again on a Friday.
I'm all for sponsorship but it seems to me RB cheapens things.
How come? They used a helicopter to film the above shot, that is pretty insane for such a "small" race i would say.
what is the first song called ?
Too bad Auckland has not traffic… Gnarly vid concept tho.
Nice race concept. It's like whatever route you take is okay as long as you will get to the finish line.
It's pricks like this that give cyclists a bad name. Get some brakes and grow up.
lullllz
thanks for giving cyclists a bad reputation…how many road rules were broken in that race,not to mention the near misses
its snobs like you that made me not want to get into cycling before fixed gear. now i ride both fixed and road and love them in different ways. From someone who rides in full cycling kits and in cut offs and t-shirts they are equally merited just different. Dont make the assumption that you know more than fixed gear cyclists even if they ride without a brake. Because I can almost guarantee you dont.
thats not a new concept… its the basic prinsiple of any alleycat and theyve been around for decades
They dont cheapen it money wise they cheapen it integrity wise. Alleycats are supposed to be grassroots based races. Not internationally sponsored.
thats the business… other way wouldn t be worth the sponsorship.. yeah world´s like that lol
I just love the way the motorbike following does'nt give a hoot about the traffic laws lol
Fixies are soo peng
круто 🙂
How is this legal?
LOL teh guy on the scooter is probably from thailand or vietnam because he did not give any fucks about local traffic laws. LOL./
superior video, but framerate seems like 15
I'm assuming the traffic in this area was "just for effect"? (ie closed roads)…otherwise this has probably made Aucklanders tool up and start carrying baseball bats in their cars
sweet
Good one Red Bull. Bikes ignoring red lights, cameraman bike on wrong side of road, little 'ol lady in the park nearly wiped out…  epic road rule busting!
That red KHS with the aero disc in the back is fucking gorgeous.
I was at the London Triathlon about 2 weeks ago and in one of the 40k road races we spotted a guy cycling (not that fast) on a fixie and he was flying past the other riders. We thought he was crazy , it was awesome!
Great to see fixies with brakes,make me feel less of a wimp cheers guys 'Colin
Great to see fixies with brakes,make me feel less of a wimp cheers guys 'Colin
Fixies with brakes ? Makes me feel better as I have them on mine !,cheers guys Colin
Fixies with brakes ? Makes me feel better as I have them on mine !,cheers guys Colin
– What's the name of the song at opening ?.
this made me feel much better about moving to AUK.
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If I went in that I'd lose haha