Winter MTB riding with a fixed gear cyclocross bike [HD]

[brapboys503]

You ride like I do on my conversion fixed gear.

[HeyItsSamXXX]

2 brake hoods or gtfo..

[mschwodler]

surely two brakes would be more practical on this kind of terrain, and would give you the option of riding on the brake hoods even on technical sections.

[sean9820]

nice video :3 I love the feeling when riding on snow where you have to just let the bike do its thing and wriggle around in every direction.

[VodkaDinner]

This was around Midday right?? :P

[pexi2]

@VodkaDinner Yep, around 13:00, i.e. 1pm.

[thesheepman220]

pexi2 this is mad mad mad cyclocross ,please can were have more , loved it

[pexi2]

@TheDevilkillah Yea, GoPro is really good when there's at least somewhat good light. In bad light and night (even with good bike lights) it sucks imho.

[pexi2]

@TheDevilkillah Thanks! See description ;)

[Elswalbe]

I love the video! It's cool how the view jumps when you grab the lower bars

[slomo8888]

how is the grip? I never get the chance to ride my mountainbike in the snow...

[pexi2]

@slomo8888 It's good. Hardpacked snow (not too much, it would become ice) provides quite good grip once you get used to it :)

[TheMarkusScharnowski]

You should sell bikes. I'm sold (too). As I don't live in Finland I need to buy my bike at a local store. Sorry for that ;).

Truly epic.

[julietmikealpha]

Epic

[WerdKemist]

So, I've been debating whether or not to get a fixed gear cyclocross bike for winter riding. If you can do that in the woods I should have no problem in the city. I'm sold.

Nice video.

[racefaceec90]

kudos to you sir ;-) 

[cerealrulz]

Looked really fast, I get scared even riding on a little bit of ice on the road :) I suppose you get used to in in Finland. Was your front wheel skidding around?

[theolliproductions]

Teetkö pexi ite noi radat vai ajeletko vaan ja sit näät metsäpolun ja lähet sinne ajaa

[pexi2]

@theolliproductions Kyllä talvipolkujen sijainnit on tarkkaan tiedossa, ei niitä mitenkään etsitä tai sattumalta löydetä :) Koiranulkoiluttajathan noita eniten talvella tallaa, mutta tulee sitä joskus ajettua vähän umpeen sataneita polkujakin, että sinne uskaltais ne kävelijät tulla tallaamaan niitä polkuja paremmiksi.

[MAGAIVER]

That looked like such a fun ride, loved it.

Gorgeous scenery, great music and great riding, props to you for riding on the drops most of the time.

[pexi2]

@MAGAIVER It's faster! :P And well at least I feel more stable and comfortable riding on the drops ;)

[GofCis]

Looks like fun!

[pexi2]

@GofCis It sure is, did 135km today!

[GofCis]

@pexi2 Wow that sounds like a great day! just wondering why'd you go for a single speed for your bike? I'm looking at buying a cyclocross bike myself

[pexi2]

@GofCis This very bike is also the one for my daily commuting. The region here is quite flat, so one really doesn't need additional gears here. I do have geared mountain bikes though. And it's also the simplicity - if that's a word :D No extra parts that would break. Also, when temperature goes below zero, (well here even below -30°C), cables, gears and freehubs can freeze. Fixed gear - no problem :)

[Mafiage55]

Aika mahtava video!

[arisaast]

pexi2, do you have gps-log of this ride?

[pexi2]

@arisaast Nope, but it wouldn't be that hard to make a map of the ride, still got it saved in my head. Although, currently there are hundreds of kilometers of awesome winter bike trails around Oulu in addition to these on the video, for we haven't got almost any extra snow recently. Did 7½ hours today and wouldn't have wanted to stop ;)

[mtbie31]

Good Stuff !

[cuplok]

that was great. I've been to Finland, lovely place, I wanna live there for a year

[goncack]

Great video! Your part of the world is very beautiful.

[pexi2]

@goncack Thank you! It's getting even more beautiful now that springtime is getting closer - we have at least double the amount of snow and much much more sun too :)

[attesmm]

@goncack i hate finland, and i live here, wanna chnage? (:

[aQ5oFt]

makian näkönen video, ja jopa kotikulumilta. :) siisti laite tuo gopro hero

[Gismaa]

thanks for doing this great video! looks like a lot of fun to ride in the snow of this beautiful landscape =) great bike too and a lot of respect to the rider ;)

[pexi2]

@Gismaa Thanks! It sure is great fun. And, it's getting even more beautiful as we're getting more and more snow here :)

[purpleduck375]

Excellent ! Best cycle vid I have watched in ages!

[pexi2]

@purpleduck375 Great! Happy you like it :)

[tuhkaluukku1]

Kaveri hei oot tehnyt tästä videosta 11min liian pitkän...

[pexi2]

@tuhkaluukku1 Ihan liian pitkähän se on, mutta käsittääkseni katsomisen voi kukin lopettaa heti kun siltä tuntuu ;)

[tumbeloX]

Nice video. Would be nice to know total time for a ride...

[pexi2]

@tumbeloX What do you actually mean? This particular ride was about an hour and some 20km long, the amount of daylight restricting shooting the video (Gopro is really bad in darker conditions). Usually my winter rides are from two to eight hours, depending on how much time I've got in my hands.

[tumbeloX]

@pexi2 this "about an hour" was exactly what I meant. I was thinking according to amount of day light that it would have been longer, but this Gopro fact explains...

[CJoke23]

fixed crazy ;)

[varaperkele]

Riding with the driver \o/

[thastloo]

very good video!!!