adress you pure enviousness to this guy
how to defeat the track champ chris hoy
at the track championships in kopenhagen this march robert förstemann defeated chris hoy, the multiple world champion and olympic games gold medal winner, with this trick. what a race...
"always ride through the pain..."
i got a really great birthday present this year from my friends: a knog N.E.R.D. (thanks to all of you again with this)
i´m riding this thing for 2 weeks now and i love it. a detailed review of it will be written in the next weeks. i´m sure you know situtations when you are riding really hard and wonder how fast you might be now and there isn´t always a car to compete yourself with. so when i got the N.E.R.D. i was really interested what i could snatch with my amateur legs. today i made 51,1km/h (31,75mph) on a 48/15 gear ratio (3.2). it was the maximum i could do on my fixed gear by rolling down a small hill.
i´m riding this thing for 2 weeks now and i love it. a detailed review of it will be written in the next weeks. i´m sure you know situtations when you are riding really hard and wonder how fast you might be now and there isn´t always a car to compete yourself with. so when i got the N.E.R.D. i was really interested what i could snatch with my amateur legs. today i made 51,1km/h (31,75mph) on a 48/15 gear ratio (3.2). it was the maximum i could do on my fixed gear by rolling down a small hill.
Francesco Moser Pursuit Track (again)
do you remember our posting from the 27th of june?! there was this classic moser time trial frame on ebay that came off for 910$. it seems the new owner build it up now. he has done really well and equipped it with adequate parts. great to see such beauties in good hands.
found on velospace
life and death.
just found this while surfin around.
really funny that a bmx equals a beetle (sorry to all you hip bmx guys)
found here
really funny that a bmx equals a beetle (sorry to all you hip bmx guys)
found here
125 Jahre Diamant / 125 years Diamant Bicycles
MDR Sachsenspiegel Extra Reportage zum 125. Geburtstag der Fahrradmarke Diamant.
trailer:
diamant cycles are celebrating their 125th birthday. here´s a tv documentary first shown on mdr (german public television) on 9th of june - so pretty new. i found the whole movie on vimeo. watch it if you are interested in bikes - there is some footage of the track cycling star michael hübner riding an old textima(?) track bike.
if you want to watch the whole movie here´s the link (the uploader forbidded to embed it):
125 Jahre Diamant - Siegerrad, Mangelware, Kultobjekt
trailer:
diamant cycles are celebrating their 125th birthday. here´s a tv documentary first shown on mdr (german public television) on 9th of june - so pretty new. i found the whole movie on vimeo. watch it if you are interested in bikes - there is some footage of the track cycling star michael hübner riding an old textima(?) track bike.
if you want to watch the whole movie here´s the link (the uploader forbidded to embed it):
125 Jahre Diamant - Siegerrad, Mangelware, Kultobjekt
it´s getting cheaper and cheaper
as the singlespeed/fixed trend continues there are more and more cheesy bikes coming out. you may have read about the walmart fixed gear bike that came out in the states. i wondered how cheaper it could get and when there will be such offers in germany. it seems it hasnt took to long... today i found this trashy thing on ebay for 199€(!!!) without shipping charges! that has to be a new price record for the german market. the frame shows the name "ks cycling" - never heard of this. straight outta china i think. how crappy has this bike to be for this price!? unbelieveable.
don´t ride this shit.
don´t ride this shit.
spotted about a week ago in Hamburg at Urban Outfitters
price is around 30€, I rather buy a new conti tire for 20€...
photo by Linda
advertising
...lets have a look at this:
This is an advertising I found in a french magazine called sneakers contributed from a brand by the name of Feiyue
This magazin featureds three individual advertisings in connection with fixed gear but the other ones were to small to take photograph.
I checked out their shoes and yes - nice one, but what do these guys exactly have in common with fixed-gear? mhh...since no one knows, it seems like a fixed-gear bicycle is a nice way to sell your product connected with an image - which image this is, seems to be the silent part intended by the brand/ or other brands.
So the trend is there, I found more links on that, we´ll keep you posted!
Linda took the photos for us again!
This is an advertising I found in a french magazine called sneakers contributed from a brand by the name of Feiyue
This magazin featureds three individual advertisings in connection with fixed gear but the other ones were to small to take photograph.
I checked out their shoes and yes - nice one, but what do these guys exactly have in common with fixed-gear? mhh...since no one knows, it seems like a fixed-gear bicycle is a nice way to sell your product connected with an image - which image this is, seems to be the silent part intended by the brand/ or other brands.
So the trend is there, I found more links on that, we´ll keep you posted!
Linda took the photos for us again!
ride your bike and listen to... vol. IV
so ok we are totally messing up this section as we are too busy getting our asses in the library or to the lake at these temperatures. im sure our outcome of postings will increase as we finished our exams. so here is my current recommendation to listen to:
End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
"To best understand the material, work part time, make less than $20,000 a year, grow your hair out, live under constant threat of eviction." This list goes on an on - in my eyes the best album intro for a long time. They got numerous splits, seven-inches and two previous full-lengths but this third long-player is my personal favour of their work. The band often was compared to old bands like Embrace and there are still many references to them audible but End Of A Year are really getting into an own style. My summer-album!
End Of A Year - You Are Beneath Me
"To best understand the material, work part time, make less than $20,000 a year, grow your hair out, live under constant threat of eviction." This list goes on an on - in my eyes the best album intro for a long time. They got numerous splits, seven-inches and two previous full-lengths but this third long-player is my personal favour of their work. The band often was compared to old bands like Embrace and there are still many references to them audible but End Of A Year are really getting into an own style. My summer-album!
Bianchi Super Pista Frameset
The Bianchi Super Pista, that replaced the Pista Concept, is now available in Celeste. In my eyes it looks much better this way than in black. It´s supposed to cost 750$ - I wish i would have one of these...
skid row - youth gone wild
skidded alot today and finally ruined my backtire. due to this i thought of "skid" row on my homeway - i know a really lame joke. but man this band got hits! long live hairmetal.
Skid Row - Youth gone wild - MyVideo
Skid Row - Youth gone wild - MyVideo
Volume Creedence
today i finally made some photos of matthias´ volume creedence. most of the parts are still stock (except bar, stem and seatpost?). i tried it and it rides like a dream. i really dig the frame geo that is a bit but not too pursuit. one of the nicest fixed-gears in leipzig for my taste.
making profits with the hype
i just found this guys on ebay. they sell pretty in my eyes average singlespeed conversions for an enormous amount of money.
for instance:
this motobecane has a price of 749(!)€:
a columbus sl frame with some random dura ace parts and tubular tires (for the city??)
and this belgian diamant for 849(!!!)€:
some (obviously used) campy parts and a reynolds 531 frame. nice chainguard though.
they look quite nice but come on guys! give me some time and i build you equal bikes for the half of the price! don´t forget these are only converted old steel frames!!! have you ever hurt your knees on left over braze-ons on such a conversion frame? its hell i can tell you. there is absolutely no justification for these prices and the profit margin has to be at least 100%. for around 800€ people wanting to buy a complete-bike can get new one such as a bianchi pista via condotti. or even building up a nice trackframe with brake drillings as a singlespeed is cheaper than that! the guys didnt even know that this isnt a german diamant before i told them via mail.
so. it´s nice to see old frames refurbished and off course old and good 10 speeds might be harder to find than 5 years ago but if you start a business like this, take a appropriate prices. and if you´re willing to buy a new bike: don´t believe the hype. don´t buy expensive conversions.
for instance:
this motobecane has a price of 749(!)€:
a columbus sl frame with some random dura ace parts and tubular tires (for the city??)
and this belgian diamant for 849(!!!)€:
some (obviously used) campy parts and a reynolds 531 frame. nice chainguard though.
they look quite nice but come on guys! give me some time and i build you equal bikes for the half of the price! don´t forget these are only converted old steel frames!!! have you ever hurt your knees on left over braze-ons on such a conversion frame? its hell i can tell you. there is absolutely no justification for these prices and the profit margin has to be at least 100%. for around 800€ people wanting to buy a complete-bike can get new one such as a bianchi pista via condotti. or even building up a nice trackframe with brake drillings as a singlespeed is cheaper than that! the guys didnt even know that this isnt a german diamant before i told them via mail.
so. it´s nice to see old frames refurbished and off course old and good 10 speeds might be harder to find than 5 years ago but if you start a business like this, take a appropriate prices. and if you´re willing to buy a new bike: don´t believe the hype. don´t buy expensive conversions.
i think i´ll have to lay a lot of money aside...
there have been rumors in the net about this for a while now but it seems the REISSUE of the CINELLI LASER is about to materialize. usually we don´t post things already posted on other fixed blogs but this message is really an exception. there will be 300 being made by the original italian constructors.
Antonio Colombo (owner of Cinelli since 1978) stated:
"Today thanks to the rebirth of steel and people like yourselves, a dream is about to be realised: the Cinelli Laser will return. Not just as a museum display, but as a track machine; rigid and lively, more so even than its predecessor 20 years ago. All the original protagonists are ready and motivated; Andrea Pesenti who built 300 throughout the 1980’s, myself Antonio Colombo who thought them up, Paolo Erzegovesi who engineered them, and Emilvano Montorio who pulled out the tubes. New in the band will be Alessandra Cusatelli, my partner, and Cinelli design co-ordinator of the last 10 years. As always, it will only be available in limited editions. The kids are alright!"
read on hipster nascar and bike rumor
lady gaga goes fixed or what!?
do i need to understand that? haha watch the last seconds it´s so dumb i can´t believe it!
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