fixed impressions

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Fixed 2 is the latest video from Charge Bikes. Follow fixed gear riders Juliet Elliott and Super Ted around the streets of London. Featuring interviews with Juliet. Filmed and edited by Alex Rankin.

Fixed 2 from Charge Bikes on Vimeo.

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Full photo shoot at maven

Here are some pictures from this last Saturday’s race.  Nice stuff. photos by Blotto Photto.

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This was a benefit for a local food drive, so of course shopping was involved…cans.

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Awesome.

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After passing through a few times but never really landing in place, I’m making my first visit to Boston since 1992.  Started the weekend with a rough, fun, cold night having a tail-gate party outside the Boston Ski Show.  We rallied pretty well with a gas grill, heaters, canopy and walled in tent.  About 8pm Matt from Valdez Heli Camps rolled his RV over to add a private clubhouse to the festivities.  It was fun.  Since then I’ve been mostly walking around—didn’t want to ride around knowing the expected weather would be in the 20’s and Boston has great public transport.  Funny, once I saw all the city fixers cruising around, I felt like “damn, I should have brought a fix.”   Well, next time I will try to.

Going up to Coolidge Circle, Brookline to buy a thick glossy art magazine, some Emergen-C, and look for musical and visual inspirations.  Be back with  more details later.

The party of the new millenium

Yeah, it’s about time to get my post-rave, fixed-gear, formal-wearing nerds together for a party.  If you somehow come across this invite, you’re most welcome to come and nerd-up with a bunch of other local folk.  Semi-formal attire encouraged.  Black and white at minimum.  You’ll want to come in dressed at least close to that, or you may be kidnapped by makeup and formal wear specialists and get a complete nerd-formal makeover.  Come check it.

So, if you don’t know where studio-g2 is, it’s at 420 Pine St. in lovely and healthy Burlington, VT 05401.  Send a comment back for more info if you need it.

I’ve pretty much hung up the bikes and will switch over to winter here.  This is  good joke for those who knew me in the bend days, I used to have seasonal opposition disorder, SOD.  I’d be just finishing my hiking for turns season and be getting ready to ride at Smith Rock and Black Canyon.  Funny how things change.

OK, off to do some party prep.

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I stopped by the Old Spokes Home and checked in with old friends Ralph, Rob and Glenn.  We passed a warm half hour with nostalgia, music and car talk—not a word about bikes.  That’s when you know you’ve moved on to fogietude.  Most of the bike stuff goes without saying.

I picked up a Surly 19T cog.  I’m down-gearing from a 46/18 to 46/19 for the winter and possibly indefinitely.  After being chastised as “Johnny Flatspot” I finally accepted the logic of tire wear and even gear ratios.  Well, I almost never skid, so it seems a lot less relevant to me than to some brave and brakeless.  In any case, it should even out the wear and tear on the rear tire and wheel.

Fall is clinging to life here in VT and mother winter is blowing cold.  I hope to get in a few good rides here before I switch to winter [and full time walks to work.]  I flopped my old rear blue loctite lockring wheel this summer in bike polo and various surgeries and long therapy sessions on the truing stand have failed to revive it—so I’m putting that 19T mentioned above on a burly fixed wheel that Ralph built for me a few years ago.   Somehow it had fallen out of use and I found it while doing my laundry this AM!  Cha Ching.

OK, by the way, please link back to this blog, I’m trying to crawl back up the “fixed gear blog” rankings and need your help.

PS I’m also looking for cool and unusual fix to feature in the blog in a “gallery” section.  Ping me and let me know what you got.  Maybe just send Picasa or Flickr links.

Over and Out

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