Patrick Seabase
- Director
- Producer
Fixed-gear rider Patrick Seabase can be found climbing the mountainous roads of Switzerland and taking his bike on super-speed adventures around the world.
Patrick Seabase bought his first fixie basically because he thought fixie bikes were beautiful. He'd been more interested in skateboards than road bikes, but the fixie was a game-changer.
For Patrick, riding is a rush. "It's as if you're strapped to a rocket and are extremely connected to the bike. Anything you do, you get 100 percent from the bike," he explains.
With no brakes, his rides over mountain passes involve a gruelling climb and a hazardous descent, using his legs and pedals against the turning wheels to slow down and stop - braking by sliding over asphalt with the back wheel. But, even at speeds of up to 83kph, he's never out of control.
Patrick mainly focuses his rides on the roads of Switzerland, where he takes on ascending peaks like Oberaarsee (2,303m). He's also taken his fixie adventures abroad, swapping his Swiss asphalt escapades for the steep unpaved roads of Eritrea.
In 2015, the Swiss rider undertook his biggest challenge to date, riding the first mountain stage of the 1910 Tour de France in the French Pyrenees in a single day, with only one gear and no brakes. This 350km ride later became a documentary called UnBRAKEable.
Patrick Seabase bought his first fixie basically because he thought fixie bikes were beautiful. He'd been more interested in skateboards than road bikes, but the fixie was a game-changer.
For Patrick, riding is a rush. "It's as if you're strapped to a rocket and are extremely connected to the bike. Anything you do, you get 100 percent from the bike," he explains.
With no brakes, his rides over mountain passes involve a gruelling climb and a hazardous descent, using his legs and pedals against the turning wheels to slow down and stop - braking by sliding over asphalt with the back wheel. But, even at speeds of up to 83kph, he's never out of control.
Patrick mainly focuses his rides on the roads of Switzerland, where he takes on ascending peaks like Oberaarsee (2,303m). He's also taken his fixie adventures abroad, swapping his Swiss asphalt escapades for the steep unpaved roads of Eritrea.
In 2015, the Swiss rider undertook his biggest challenge to date, riding the first mountain stage of the 1910 Tour de France in the French Pyrenees in a single day, with only one gear and no brakes. This 350km ride later became a documentary called UnBRAKEable.