In March of 2025 I went to a fundraiser at Dual Citizen Brewing in Minneapolis. It was a goldsprint tourney to raise money for the Minnesota Cycling Federation. There were three goldsprint events that Spring and lots of participants, but one Insta Reel featuring me took off. It had like 15 million views in the first weekend, got posted and reposted to other accounts on Instagram, YouTube, even allegedly Pinterest.
The original post had no narration, no story. Every repost got a bit wilder. Before too long I was a secret pro hipster that went to the tourney just to light up the local scene. In reality, just about everyone there knew each other. I’m very much an amateur and had been around the local race scene for years, no one was wondering “who is that guy?” And the guy I raced was only in a kit because he actually biked to the event, which is the way to go. I was in street clothes because I drove there from my daughter’s swim practice. So anyway, I’ve never experienced a viral moment like this, it was fun, the other guy got more heat from Internet than he should have, so I wanna set an accurate narrative.
By the Numbers
Trying to quantify what actually happened. The reposts to Instagram are mostly “not available” now, maybe they were Stories or privacy settings changed? Idk, looking through my past messages there were Reels or Stories reposted to accounts like @houseofhighlights and @WEDU, a media account founded by Lance Armstrong. So those had lots of hits too, but they’re unavailable now. What I got is the original and the YouTube reposts. Recon for counts below done on Oct 2, 2026.
| Views | Likes | Comments | Link | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Original Instagram reel (Mar 27, 2025) | 29.1M | 760K | 766 | |
| FitBlips YouTube Short (Mar 30, 2025) | 39.9M | 576K | 672 | youtube |
| The other 18 YouTube reposts I found, combined | 545K | table below |
That’s about 69M views between the original and the first repost. The other 18 reposts together add up to a fraction of the FitBlips short, but they keep coming: 12 of the 19 were posted in 2026, 8 in the last few months.
It’s Resurging
A search found 19 reposts, recuts, and re-narrations on YouTube alone. One per square, by the month it was posted. The surprising thing to me is there’s more reposts in 2026 than there were in 2025. Or maybe more likely, that could also be because new uploads are easier to find in a search, 2025 reposts are maybe just lost to time, I didn’t keep an index.
The Story Gets Better with Every Repost
The original caption just advertises the next goldsprints night. The narration started three days later, and has ever escalated.
Oldest first, as of Oct 2, 2026. I know none of these ppl, and they clearly don’t know me either 
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Every Repost I Found
Just about two of the thumbnails (Tetiuwpaw and axsel) carry an “SC: @indigoclipless” source credit. A comment from the FitBlips account also credits the original: “Credit: 📸 @indigoclipless”. It was indeed @indigoclipless.
The Comments
Yanking out some of the entertaining commentary. From the FitBlips short. Some of it occasionally actually brings the narrative back to reality.
“The guy on the left is a professional biker. And the guy on the right… is also a professional biker”
– @loganmacdonald3853, 23K likes
hate these voiceovers that just change the story to whatever they feel like
– @AS-120, 10K likes
Bro got humbled by an Amish guy with glasses 💀
– @monkeymonkeymonkey-y5c, 1.5K likes
Guy on the right looks like he rides his bike to every brewery and distillery in a 50 mile radius
– @DeltaTango26, 966 likes
And from the original Instagram reel:
Never trust the best dressed person.
– scorem
My man’s wearing 13 earth tone colors, full beard, glasses, a locomotive engineers hat and 66 PBR’s down before he rolled in. Why would you go toe to toe with that cat?
– a.o.brien
never trust a guy who touch glasses before the race
– velovers_him
References
- Original Instagram reel by @indigoclipless: https://www.instagram.com/p/DHuQ_5YviEJ/
- Profile Reels grid, where the 29.1M view count shows: https://www.instagram.com/indigoclipless/reels/
- FitBlips, “Never Underestimate Someone…”: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZaQBw9M97r4
- Crazy Stories, “Pro Cyclist Disguised as Hipster Wins Race!”: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/hq3XVV9RZGg
- The remaining YouTube reposts are linked in the table above.
