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Monday, September 27, 2010

Media Look at These Fucking Hipsters Doing Tricks on Their Fixies in 1899!

Posted by Benjamin Sutton on Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 4:02 PM

Your original fixed gear hipsters, as filmed by the original hipster filmmaker Thomas Edison, in 1899 and 1901. In the long-lost third reel, Edison's team of bipedal acrobats invent bike polo, a popular hipster sport. (Videosift)

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