"GO!" "Quit fucking around!" "Hahaha." "Back the fuck up." "Two Rules." "Fixed Gear Only." "No Brakes Allowed." "Over 150 Competing Riders." "Top 3 Contenders." "The alleycat starts with a manifest." "The manifest lists the checkpoints." "First rider to complete the checkpoints wins." "Monstertrack starts in confusion when the manifests are thrown into the air." "Rumor about a false start spreads to the checkpoints." "Go." "Go go go!" "Oh My God!" "Checkpoint!" "Checkpoint!" "Fuck That!" "– Lets go." "No no you can't" " Ok fuck it, fuck it, fuck it – take it." "FUCK it, fuck it!" ", Let's go!" "Checkpoint." "This is what Victor gave me!" "You don't know where it is?" "You guys missed 72nd." "Shit!" "Yo yo, scuse me." "Pardon me, gracias." "Police – for us!" "Any... any motherfucking where." "Can I get a motherfucking pen?" "No I gotta put it where it belongs." "We can keep going, FUCK HIM." "Show him respect!" "Sign it anywhere dude, are you kidding me man – sign it ANYWHERE." "Yo you're a Dick, fuck him, don't worry about it." "We'll settle this when I get back." "See you soon." "Go go go go go!" "♫ I am riding from London to Dublin on a fixed gear bike!" "♫ I am riding from London to Dublin with 14 friends I don't like!" "♫ O'er the hills and... ♫ Wah shit, one second!" "♫ All right!" "♫ O'er the hills and peaks and valleys, Ireland, England and Wales!" "♫ 40 dirty big city messengers following their lycra tails!" "♫ Miles and miles that lie before me, my arse it feels impaled!" "♫ On this weary and creaky saddle and I wants a pint of ale!" "Yaaay!" "Wooo!" "Hahaha." "With Lucas we've used his GPS to try to find creative ways to get down the road." "And so we've had to improvise and do portages and hop fences and it hasn't been without its bloodshed but it's been fun." "Left!" "Left!" "Yeaahhhy!" "Hey hey hey hey hey!" "OK, go go go!" "Hey, hey!" "Yo, yo yo!" "Go!" "YO!" "Hey hey hey/Whoah/Hey!" "Hey hey hey hey hey hey!" "I, I, I" "Wooo." "Yaaay..." "Hey!" "Various cheers." "Yeahhh – you won!" "When we run intersections, when we go up one ways, when we do these maneuvers they're based on skill and a lot of experience." "The riders that I'm with, that's the same thing." "They're up front." "It's always the same riders up front, same riders winning these events worldwide because they have that skill." "They have that talent, being able to go in a space that the eye cannot see." "It's a place in between cars, in between trucks and buses, taking a certain line through a curb, a corridor, that people just don't realize is there, those spaces." "We use those spaces, we use those openings, those opportunities, those blind spots, and that's the area that we exist in." "It's the space that we exist in, where we race." "That's why we like it so much, is because there are certain things in life that require total complete focus and this is one of them." "Oh shit." "New York City is unlike any other city..." "For riding the wave." "Here are multiple avenues." "You just catch the wave of a green light, go all the way down." "It's like staying ahead of a wave in the ocean, it's the most awesome feeling." "What's even more amazing is when you start to fall behind the wave." "The lights start turning yellow, turning red." "And then you sprint as fast as you can, you go, and what happens is you can actually catch back up with that wave of green lights again and get back in that groove" "I feel safe riding here, I feel like I could ride here for another two decades and I wouldn't have a single incident riding here." "That's how safe I feel in New York." "And, it's because..." "You look at traffic, it looks chaotic, but there's a rhythm to it." "Arrgh, ugh..., ah FUCK." "If you try and do these maneuvers on a motorbike or a car or any other mode of transportation, you'd have a massive police chase." "Here you don't have that." "The thing that's funny about New York is that you can pull some pretty crazy moves and people don't really react and beep and flip out because everything's so fucked up already, you know, so they see you doing that so it's like oh... ohh.." "All right... you know..." "like – yeah he knows what he's doing!" "Yeah, he's got it." "It's good!" "Thanks for the support!" "The best reaction is no reaction, just stay where you are and I'll handle it, I'll get around you, I'll be on my way." "Bye!" "You know..." "It was called the Drag Race because everybody dressed in women's clothes." "Most people did." "And so that was one of the first races that I actually filmed." "Yeahh, go go." "Hey fuck man we were it!" "Look at it man – awesome." "Yeah, that's my boy!" "Chris give me your manifest." "The race series that set the precedents for, uh, last place prizes." "Ha!" "Yeah!" "If nothing else we had a lot of prizes." "Yeah/Yeah." "You got some helmet cam action going on." "Yeah that's right!" "Right on!" "I want to take people through the experience!" "What it's like to do this..." "Helmetcams always kick ass man!" "That is a dope – fucking helmetcam, hold on, I gotta hit Pause for..." "It's like putting two Pepsi bottles, right, two Pepsi 20 ounce plastic bottles full of pennies, and if you were to do that, put that on your helmet, that's what Lucas is feeling as he's filming." "How heavy is that thing?" "It's about 6 pounds, maybe 7 pounds..." "At the end of the day your neck is pretty strained, huh?" "I got used to it." "I got used to being stable and my neck being OK..." "Nice!" "I want to introduce this helmet camera designed according to the specifications of Lucas Brunelle." "You try to have..." "Yeah, you realize soon your periphery is better than you thought" "I'm not gonna worry about it today." "Yeah that's for another day." "Yeah yeah..." "Engine 1, Engine 2" "I follow the fastest, cause that's where the action is, that's where all the fun is." "Hey!" "HEY!" "Get-." "Ah ha – thanks man." "Go camera boy!" "D'you guys hear what happened to Lucas?" "Yeah dude, he got brain cancer, no, seriously." "It's all that shit on his head man..." "Brain cancer, I didn't realize that!" "At the time it was so much fun." "Now I'm paying for it." "Hey, hey, dismount!" "Crazy!" "No, no, no, dismount!" "Dismount!" "Dismount!" "Dismount the bike right now!" "Get off the bike!" "What are you doing?" "I be doin' the rail!" "No one's going to give you a warrant for a camera, man!" "Get OFF!" "I be doin' the rail!" "Use your head!" "I use the camera!" "Use your HEAD!" "I use BOTH!" "Whoooo whoooooo." "Man!" "You're gonna get killed!" "Car horn." "Sound of bottle hitting the ground." "WANKER!" "I'm just gonna explain a few things to make sure there's no confusion." "All you, basically have to do is get on the train and get a signature and get off the train again." "You need to hit this checkpoint to finish the race." "You have 2 chances to hit the train!" "But it's 2 different trains." "This is like the hardest ever... – and I'm sober." "Messengers develop alleycats as a way for us to be more than just, you know, workers." "More than just, like, cogs delivering packages." "Because we choose to participate in alleycats." "It's the way we know we're actually living as opposed to punching a time card." "Dropping off packages." "This is a chance for us to take those work skills and, you know, put them to the test." "Yes, right here!" "Get in there." "What the fuck!" "Stamp!" "Nice!" "This place..." "Why do you have..." "Tell 'em..." "Yeeeah!" "Wooooooo!" "Let me see the manifest first" "I need to see." "And check that you guys have everything." "It is recording, OK." "OK" "Hey got it!" "Into the sun!" "How you doing?" "Woah – ho – ho!" "Duuude!" "FUCK YOU" "UGGGGHHH!" "SHIT!" "This is the first time this has been done in many years." "Yaaay!" "Woooo!" "Whoah!" "Oh!" "Shit!" "I'm fine, I'm fine." "You alright?" "Yo OK?" "I'm fine." "I'm totally fine." "Totally fine and I apologize for the scare." "You scared me!" "Yeah!" "Yeah!" "Do it do it, make it, make it, make it." "Do that shit, do that shit." "Lets go." "Yes sir, yes sir." "OK!" "Slow the fuck down" "I got it!" "I got it!" "I got it!" "You're a professional – I'm a professional." "Ohhhh!" "He's definitely an international man of mystery." "That goes without saying." "I could go to the ends of the earth and I would not be surprised to see Lucas pop up in control of the situation." "Also, whatever he'd be doing, he'd be doing it with a bike, on a bike." "He's just able to make that happen." "What Lucas can do that nobody else can do..." "I mean he first of all he's got the fitness to keep up with all of us." "A lot of times the film guys aren't necessarily the fastest." "But Lucas is just right there with us, so boom, he's got the speed." "On top of that he's got this ability to go through an intersection with lots of stuff happening in it and not swivel his head around." "And it really enhances the quality of the video, because if you are trying to watch something, you're trying to watch like people on the screen and all of a sudden you know in a split second you're treated to 180 degrees twice of visual movement," "then it's not gonna be something that's good to watch." "What Lucas's videos are so great for is he has this sense, and this control and he's able to go into something safely but also keep a perfect picture." "Thing is if you want to ride on the UK roads you have to adhere to the UK laws." "All right, that means you go the right way round the roundabout." "We've just had about 20 of your lot in Kalb motoring through the town." "Wrong side of the road." "Forcing motorists to move off the bloody road." "You are a hazard waiting for an accident to happen." "Rrraahhhhhh." "You don't get to a place like this by staying on a beaten path, by not taking a risk." "These are the most beautiful places but they're also the most deadly." "To be beautiful, it's yin and yang." "It has to be that deadly." "Otherwise it would be a place everybody calls Paradise and you'd have malls and high priced condos and shit." "So out here you don't have that." "What the fuck!" "Ouch." "Out of this race the hardest part and I always knew that was the trip to get to the race." "That's the hardest part." "They figured there was gonna be all these pros coming in and when they came in and they saw all these messengers and they looked like they just came out of a Mad Max movie, they were like are these guys actual racers?" "And I was like wait and see!" "And then when they started competing they were like how the hell can they drink so much and race so well?" "Heads up!" "Hey hey!" "Come on down here, they're coming in!" "Come on this way!" "Keep it coming to the wall!" "Go straight through!" "OH shit!" "Nice!" "We're just a big family." "I'm gonna be real sad when I get back home." "And..." "It's not me who won this, it's everybody and that's what it comes down to." "Bullshit!" "Aaahh, ever fuck, that's is, ah." "OHH NOOO!" "I love it here, you know that the drawback is that sometimes shit get a little out of control like it did today." "That, that's a wrap." "Thank God!" "Ahhhh!" "Wooo!" "Oh my God!" "Fuck Yeah." "Woooo!" "How does it feel to be on the top?" "Are you gonna stop now, after..." "No..." "After you've been there?" "You're gonna keep on pushing it?" "Yeah." "Right." "That's what life's about man." "That's exactly..." "Live on the edge." "Yo!" "Kids, do not try this at home." "It's something that he's in tune with and, and breaking rules really has been a family tradition for a long time." "So when you step away from the pack like that you have to have a lot of tools at your disposal, and you have to have pretty good judgment so it's not for everyone." "You know he goes skydiving from planes, he rides his bike under water." "He goes off cliffs, I mean this man is a lunatic for all intents and purposes." "When he goes away, my main concern is, is this guy gonna come back?" "We have all the guns, all the cameras, all of the ammo, all of our shit here in fucking Guatemala baby!" "Lucas can get as much work done anywhere." "I've set him up in mobile offices anywhere he goes." "You're gonna be in Guatemala?" "He's gonna have a full work station available to work with his phone, his laptop everything, and you'll see him and he'll work the whole time." "Aquí." "True Guatemala experience!" "Buenos Dias Guatemalaaaa!" "He's been doing this for so long that I used to constantly worry, and after a while," "I don't know how long ago but I just realized I had stopped worrying because it was just a way of life with him." "There was no need to worry anymore because I would just be worrying all the time, and it wasn't anything I reasoned out." "I just stopped worrying." "Lucas can assess the risk, he can judge whether or not to do something." "And that's really what it was, is I accepted him as an adult that can make a sound decision about what he was doing." "Oh fuck." "DON'T go close to the edge!" "And with that, a lot of the worry went away." "Right where the footprints were – my goodness." "Woah." "OOooohhhhhhh." "Well..." "So when he's on his bike you can't get this man." "He's gone." "It's another world." "Like Batman, he puts on his bike suit, hops on the Lamborghini or whatever bike he's riding that day and he's gone." "He's off to cause someone some havoc." "And you know he's out there just pounding it, he's not just out for your little stroll in the park." "He's out there riding his bike at full speed up hills, around corners or on sidewalks, through traffic, you know, cutting people off – who cares!" "?" "You know, he's out riding it as hard as he can ride it for that time and it's nice that he has that kind of an outlet being the kind of workaholic he is." "And it's nice that he also allows that outlet to take over cause he's the kind of guy that no matter where he is he's available and he's working." "Accept then." "Accept that point right there." "That one thing." "And it's nice that he has it because I personally think that he would have gone insane and you know probably murdered a hundred people if he didn't have the bike outlet." "Subtitles by Matt Mackey"