do you have "the balls" to...

...put something so useless and ridiculous on your bike?^^ unbelieveable... get them here





Carbon rim table: Carbon Footprint Design

oh, cracked carbon rim floating around??? check this



get more pics and tables from Carbon Footprint Design

Premium Rush

Seems like fixed-gear riding finally made it to hollywood. Story is about messengers and seems a bit like Quicksilver. Here´s the trailer. Decide yourself...

Perfection



Just saw this on Pedalroom. Don´t you agree that it´s the perfect build? A custom Pellizoli Pista GP build up with quite the best parts available. Made my day.

Frame:
Pelizzoli Pista GP 54x54

Fork/Headset:
Pelizzoli double crown / Campagnolo Record Pista

Crankset/Bottom Bracket:
Campagnolo Record Pista/ Campagnolo Record Pista 111mm Carbon

Pedals:
Campagnolo Record Pista 1038

Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain:
Miche 16t Pista/Campagnolo Record Pista 50t/D.I.D. Racing Pro

Handlebars/Stem:
Cinelli 67-39/ Cinelli 2A

Saddle/Seatpost:
Brooks Team Pro chrome/ Campagnolo Record Pista

Front Wheel/Hub/Tire:
Ambrosio Excellence/ Campagnolo Record Pista 32 LF/Veloflex Record

Rear Wheel/Hub/Tire:
Ambrosio Excellence/ Campagnolo Record Pista 32 LF/Veloflex Record

Accessories:
Campagnolo seatpost clamp, Campagnolo SR toe clips, Cinelli handlebar plugs, Alfredo Binda toe straps

old times

awesome bikes. don´t have the sources anymore just saved the pics a while back :/ if you have any complaints just write them in the comment field.






Gitane Track

Beauty! Found on Velospace

new wheel


finally got my high flange dura ace hub laced to a dodici 405 with sapim spokes. pretty tough thing i´m planning to get a matching rear wheel. thanks to "fahrrad biela" my favourite bike shop in leipzig for lacing it up.

True beauty - Euro-Asia-Imports Track Cog

... its our track cog of choice! I can't wait to get another one of these black strong steel beauty's!

Bicimáquinas

I think this totally great!
Bicimáquinas (bicycle machines) are machines that are build by hand for the purpose of producing things. Pedaling revisited as a source of powering a machine is a fantastic idea.
http://www.mayapedal.org

we´ll see...



...und Erwachsene ebenso

Custom Cinelli Mash

I am not really into lo pros at the moment but this is one sexy beast. Loving the color scheme!





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Singlespeed

pretty random and a bit small for its rider. looks like a complete bike. ridden with freewheel and brakes. seen at my local groceries

Einzig bike

Spotted in Berlin Schöneberg...

Invisible bike

Here is a good one:

14 Bike Co

yeah! I need that!



I think its inside their old place at Old Truman Brewery.

shit mountainbikers say

here is another one from this incredible guy!!!

Bike collector

Spotted in Hamburg in the Hafenklang...

Street creds...

More bike shots in Bremen ...

Pay attention to the last picture I heard that seat angle is an Easton-Thompson-NASA-top-secret-project!!!



Massive fail 3

It sems like its an on going series now - look for youself - the people are forcing it!!! Do they? They do!

Whats up with that front break and he didnt got his backwheel fixed its the flip side with the freewheel mounted on which he is riding...maybe he got some cable parasites???


Massive fail 2

Oh! First Create Bike I have seen in Bremen!

Shit Hipsters Say

third round :)

Shit Hipsters Say from Duke Lazor on Vimeo.

WTF

thats scary i definitely have to check that :/

kryptonite lock fail from Fixed4711 on Vimeo.

colnago porn

so beautiful... from superbbicycle




CUSTOM14

I just tried out the Custom14 Fixed Gear Configurator. It´s quite similar to the Fixie Studio Configurator but with more options and better parts. You should check it out it´s fun to try out all the options. Here´s my first "build" and yes parallels to my Gazzetta are intended ;)

Shit Triathletes Say

:) i wonder what comes next

LIFECYCLE

"Last year, Red Peak Branding conducted a unique urban experiment for Hudson Urban Bicycles. On January 1, 2011 we chained a fully loaded bike - bells, basket, lights and more - to a post along a busy Soho street. We took a picture of the bike everyday for 365 days, watching it slowly vanish before our eyes. The photos we took were then turned into a daily calendar. We call this project LIFECYCLE: 365 days in the life of a bike in NYC."

That´s pretty what happens to a bike you lock somewhere and stop caring about. I am sure this´ll happen the exact way in every other city in the world not just in New York. So hmm i don´t really know what this video is about except wasting a bike and a pretty expensive krypto lock. But look for yourself.

goodbye plug - hello gazzetta



ok it´s time to lay it on the line. we never posted about our own bikes since we were writing this blog. we always thought it could easily turn this blog into a mere presentation room for our own bikes and that was never the intention of it. today i (fabian) decided to break these rule cause i am just too excited about my new bike haha. we (martin & me) both have and had several fixed gear bicycles since we started riding fixed in summer 09. we had to pay hard for some frame and parts decision but in the meantime we understood more and more what is worth buying it and what is just a waste of money. and in review my decision to buy a charge plug was on of the things i didnt knew better. i bought it at a time where frame geometry and aesthetics were just a mystery to me. i bought what i thought looked nice and realized later that this isn´t the right frame for me. don´t get me wrong the plug is a perfect beginner-frame but it´s relaxed geo bugged me more and more. for example the bb was way too low - i think i´ll never forget the sound of my toe clips scratching along the pavement while wheeling my bike - made me go crazy^^
so this christmas i decided to buy a new frame and finally get a more tracky geo under my ass. i had some requirements : as i constantly upgraded my charge plug i don´t wanted to buy too much new parts for the new frame and wanted to reuse as much as possible and i wanted a steel tubeset. that meant a threadless headset, british bb a 27,2mm seatpost size. my total budget was about 450 euros. after surfing two days and nights there were only few frames that got my attention and the cinelli gazzetta was the one i liked the most. cinelli - i always admired these frames and envied people that got one. i found an offer for a cinelli gazzetta for 399 euros (+ shipping) at fixie factory and ordered prompt. they delivered very quick within 6 days from france so the frame arrived at 6th of january. i waited way longer for parts from german vendors so thumbs up for fixie factory! i disassembled my charge immediately and build the gazzetta up within about two hours - i just couldn´t wait :) so here it is. i am sure there are quite a lot changes to come, especially a proper wheelset but for the meantime the old parts should do it.

the differences between in geo and therefore handling my old plug and the new gazzetta are huge. here some data to see the differences:

comparison plug/gazzetta:
- seatpost length (center bb-top) 59cm/59cm
- headtube angle 71°/74,5°
- seattube angle 73°/74,5°
- chainstay length 40,5cm/38,5cm
- toptube length 54,5cm/55,5cm
- headtube length 15,4cm/16cm

so you see the cinelli is a lot tighter and more nimble than the plug resulting in a wheelbase of 95,5cm (compared to 97,5 with the plug). the greatest effort of the new frame in urban riding is the much higher bb, which i unfortunately missed to measure before but the times of scratching in corners are over - yes! :)


my old frame:



fresh out of box:



there are only a few things better than unpacking a brand new bicycle frame <3

and here finally the photos of the whole bike. as i mentioned build up with used parts from my last bike. more changes to come.

first day with flatbar:




with risers



if you want to know the exact details of the bike you can look at pedalroom here

i don´t know if that´s my last frame, to be honest - i highly doubt it :D but for now it´s the most beautiful bike in the world to me and surely the best bike i´ve ever had.

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to a combination of circumstances the other author if this blog martin bought the exact same frame a few days after me. so it seems this is the official nafgb-frame now :D so be excited for his new build!! and off course we´ll post some "twin" photos of our bikes in the future ;)

Leader 722TS


found at lfgss today. really like the build.

Do what you love.

This is called Holstee Manifesto. I have no clue what Holstee is, wants or should be except the messages of the video but you should watch it it´s kinda nice. For more info go to vimeo.


The Holstee Manifesto Lifecycle Video from Holstee on Vimeo.

Hiplock

when it comes down to locks i usually trust only the "big-ones" and with that i mean big names and big locks as well. the last thing you should save money at is the lock. i never heard of "hiplocks" before have you? they cost around 70-90 € which is as much as you pay for the big names. i think i´ll stick to my krypto chain as long as this fits around my hips^^

Hiplok - Wearable Bike Locks from Hiplok Locks on Vimeo.

Stop and Smell the Fixed Gear


pretty cool

Stop and Smell the Fixed Gear from Ride/Relax Productions on Vimeo.

Hipster Cycle

Six Days Bremen 12.01.-17.01.2012

since I live in that town - but never been there - so a video live stream is a fine thing, but the whole thing is all about party and not track bikes as it should be...tickets cost up to 30€ to see your favorite tv star singing and shooting the race...lets overlook that ok? errrrrr bikes! track bikes! stay focused!


here is the link: http://www.sixdaysbremen.de/2012/videostream.html

try that video stream from time to time until 17.01.2012... they are not sending all the time...

random bike at night

random bike found in Hamburg St.Pauli



please excuse the bad quality....I know true shit but for the sake of getting da real shit from da streets out to ya!

Mercier track bike

found around the place where I live at my local bike shop...

Shot of the day

Just saw this "Veloheld" bike in front of my local grocery. I was surprised as these bikes are quite expensive (around 900€) they are pretty low level equipped. Beside the stupid saddle angle there is nothing that really arrouses my attention on this bike.

Hmm look for yourself...


Ride/and/Roll from veloheld. on Vimeo.

GIOS porn


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