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from Bike Race by Imperial Midge

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(Bike Race – 2010)
Hilde: Eddy and I, we lived together in Belgium for five years and then we moved to Minneapolis for a job. And then we met you.
Lance: I, Lance, was living here with my girlfriend, and the three of us started hanging out in bars together. We drank a beer or two or three together.
Hilde: For Eddy, you were his best friend, as well.

That’s dialogue from my 2010 animated film “Bike Race,” which tells the story of both a playful bicycle race between me and Cis Bierinckx and of my courtship with Hilde de Roover during the late summer of 2002. I waited for seven years after these events to begin making the film. At the time, Hilde had captured audio on the locations of the races with a field recorder. I am Lance, as in Armstrong, in the film and Cis is called Eddy, as in Merckx, the famous Flemish racer from the 1970’s. My girlfriend that I mention was Jenny, whom I’d met at the Arts High School where we were then both teaching. Cis had been hired as the curator of film and video at the Walker Art Center in 2000 and I had met Cis and Hilde shortly after they arrived in Minneapolis because of our shared enthusiasm for hanging out in bars and obsessing over cinema.

(Bike Race – 2010)
Lance: And Eddy and I started to have a repetitive argument about the best bicyclist in the world.
Hilde: Lance Armstrong or Eddy Merckx.
Lance: ‘Cause Lance Armstrong equaled the record of the famous Belgian from the 70’s, Eddy Merckx.
Hilde: In number, not in heart and bone.
Lance: So we adopted their names and Eddy and I were out for a casual bike ride and he started riding faster and I started riding faster and then pretty soon, without knowing it, we were racing. And I said, “Okay, let’s just have a race to decide actually who’s the champion, Eddy or Lance, and we’ll set up routes that are mapped in advance.

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from Bike Race, released December 27, 2019
Reid Kruger - Drums, Keyboards, Vocals
Tom Schroeder - Guitar, Voiceover, Story
Jonathan Zorn - Bass

Additional voices: Hilde De Roover, Cis Bierinckx

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