When Bikes Argue 2 (film)

Video distribution
The original When Bikes Argue was released as a video in January of 2008, synchronizing with the production at that time of Ciem 2. However, planning the Service Personnel episode of Who's Who at FSU? meant the Dozerfleet founder had to put production of both Ciem 2 and When Bikes Argue 2 on hiatus to work as a producer and director for studio production class projects. Production of When Bikes Argue 2 was not resumed until June. Production of Ciem 2 would not resume until the middle of July.

Video production
Images from the DSHW were converted from the 400x300 "full" format for DSHW to the 640x480 standard size for television. They were imported into Premiere and synced as close as possible to the audio. Conversion went from JPEGs to an AVI file to a WMV file and then finally to an FLV file after the piece was uploaded to YouTube. YouTube shrank the footage back down to a 400x300 form.

Audio production
As with the last production, there were considerable problems trying to record the voices of the bike characters. Ackro was the easiest to convert, but his voice when from the "black" accent undertones previously present to a more warbly voice that was similar to the one used for Volkonir.

Colly's voice was more consistent in quality in this version than in the last one, but her whiny voice still had tone similarities and whine ranges consistent with the voice used for Polly Mindoche of the Trapezoid Kids. Betsy's voice, new to the production, wound up sounding an awful lot like the voice for Humdrum Mindoche. Bludger, the snow blower responsible for Hilo's anti-Muslim diatribes, wound up having a voice similar to that of Enclo Mindoche. Hilo's voice maintains a lot of the "Texan" accent flavor expected of him, but also still sounds like that of Mutt Mackley.

Reviews
There are yet to be any official written reviews of this movie anywhere, but so far verbal response has been positive.

Trivia

 * This video uses an alternate logo for Dozerfleet Comics.


 * The 2005-era message at the beginning is a discussion of the so-called "2005 closet," referring to all Dozerfleet program ideas that were contrived in 2005. This includes most Dozerfleet DSHW's and a few videos.  Examples include the When Bikes Argue series and The Gerosha Chronicles.
 * In contrast to the 2005 closet is the "2004 closet" (which includes the Meshalutian Trilogy) and the "2002 closet."


 * Since When Bikes Argue was originally meant to become a series, an explanation is provided at the end of the video for the cancellation of this plan.


 * The dedication at the end of the video is to Ka Pang Lee, a graduate of Ferris State University and a friend of the producer of WBA2 via instant messaging. The founder was considering pursuing her as a girlfriend, but she ultimately settled for someone who shared her study field in college.  Brokenhearted, the Dozerfleet founder nevertheless decided to dedicate the video to her as a belated birthday present.