yes, i want you to become an editor and start posting your madness here. the goal is to rule the world of fixed gear blogs by hosting the best content. you are the one to help make it happen. ping me and let me know where you get your stuff and what you want to show/write and we’ll begin world fixed gear blog domination.
g5
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.
Full photo shoot at maven
Here are some pictures from this last Saturday’s race. Nice stuff. photos by Blotto Photto.
Aaron
This was a benefit for a local food drive, so of course shopping was involved…cans.
Re-mount
Awesome.
G
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.
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.
The party of the new millenium
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.
G
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
G
I mentioned this in the top 10 list below. What I failed to actually mention there exactly what the blue loctite is for! No one actually asked, but in the interest of my self-importance, I’ll mention it. I have one in that category of fix. I took a standard road wheel, An old tied-and-soldered Campy model from a late 70’s Trek and re-dished it as best I could with the existing spokes, then I applied some cleaning to the freewheel threads. Then, a good dose of blue loctite. This is my “brand” of lockring. None. Well, save for the blue stuff.
Yes I always have a brake on this bike. No it’s never slipped. Yes I’ve tried to slip it. I believe the hub will fail before it comes loose. That said, I’ll test the brake at the beginning of my next ride.
Keep the rubber side down. Make up a commute so you can ride instead of walk to work. Have happy holidays.
Flash, if you somehow land here, will you write me, please?
G
THE ULTIMATE DILEMMA FOR A FIX ADDICT. WHAT DO YOU DO WHEN IT’S FASTER TO WALK TO WORK THAN RIDE?
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G
This was the year I invested in the studio. It’s practically November, and the project I set out with in June is about 80%. I just need to finish off the nano-kitchen and the back workspace. I’m moving out of my share in the front of the studio for a while and will be making another go in the back. More on that later—I’ll link over to studio-g2 when that settles out a bit.
Here’s what it’s all about. Chilling out last summer after another art development epic.
Chillin after an epic
So, got to get on the truing. My “fresh tracks” friend and I had a little wreck polo’n early this summer and I got the rear wheel on the unifix all out o’ shape. I think I might have posted a pict of the bike after we bashed the rear wheel out. Hey, I rode it home. It’s pretty whack, but if I can just work it over on a proper truing set up I think I can get a few seasons out of this wheel yet.
Before:
Oops
After:
Bashed that shit out
Fixed. Polo.
Shit Breaks.
G
the blog-over from blogger has been flawless, I’ve not been hacked [yet] and google is playing kind of nice and the new site is coming up in some good searches like fixed gear cult. I seem to have lost the chatty folk in my negligence the last 18 months. The traffic shows people come and read, but no comments. Don’t you hate what I say and just want to rant? It can’t be that hard to create a log-in so you can give me a piece of your mind? Come on.
Rocking the studio out for winter. Looking to add one mate who currently has the monopoly on bike-rickshaw services here in our fair city. With any luck we can shed up his gear and get him right for pow. Hoping for a deep year.
Quick out.
G