MonsterTrack #14

The Original.

All the details here.

ENSILUOKKAINEN RYYS ! // TÄNÄÄN !

http://www.yksivaihde.net/site/2012/09/08/premium-rush-ensi-ilta-alleycat-2192012/

FIXIEMAN ja Hoyo: RENGASARVOSTELU

"Oltiin FIXIEMANIN kanssa skiddaamasa tannoin ihan yyberisti. Eka vedettiin lähikahvilassa TUPLAdoppiot ja RED BULLIA iha vitust. FIXIEMANIN pupillit alkoivat LAAJETA ja sit aloitettiin.

Todellakin oltiin saatu LBS:stä testiin SKIDAUSKUMEJA.
Hoyo oli testaamassa iha muita KUMEJA just sillon jollain naisten MAANTIEJOUKKUEELLA.

Vittu nii vedettiin VIIVAA ASVALTTIIN gatoreilla, kun joku NOOBI tuli siihen jotai kyselee. Se horisi jostain SKIDPATCHEISTA ja välityksistä mulle, kun FIXIEMAN vetäs ihan SAIRAAN COWAN leg-over-skidin ARMADILLOILLA siihen paikalle, otti huikan RED BULLIA ja totes: vittu alkuluvut.

Sillä SKENENOOBILLA meni nuuska väärään huuleen kun FIXIEMAN täräytti totuuksia. Se jäi siihen jotain änkyttämään, kun jatkettiin MUUSHAAMISTA.

Voin muuten sanoa, että olit kumit aika RUVELLA ja VITTU KANKAILLA kun lopetettiin. Ei ykskään rengas KESTÄNY meidän KÄSITTELYÄ tarpeeks. Onneks FIXIEMAN osaa puhua LBS:n jakoavainAPINOILTA renkaita meille käyttöön. Aina ne jaksaa lässyttää jostain jarruista, MUT SE EI OO TRUEEE.

Br4keless 4 lyfe!! Ihavitun LEKENTAARISTA!"

LINE OF SIGHT DVD

 "LINE OF SIGHT is the inside story of underground bike racing -- a rare view into the riding of the best urban athletes in a sport that has become a global phenomenon. The "edge of your seat" footage, all filmed by the adored and controversial Lucas Brunelle will leave you astonished. 


LINE OF SIGHT presents a view of urban landscapes that never existed before Brunelle put on his customized helmet cams and followed the worlds' fastest bicycle messengers who use their intimate local knowledge and vehicle-dodging expertise to set an exhilarating pace. 60 min. feature film of the best Lucas Brunelle footage plus extras, outtakes, and a 40 page art book, featuring artwork by Futura 2000, photography and spoke cards from a decade of Alleycat races around the world.

Get the DVD at: http://www.lucasbrunelle.com"

Cross Cyclo-pédestre, February 18th 1930, Paris

THIS photo!

"Remember, racers still didnt trust the derailleur even into the 1940s, and that held for cyclocross as well - bikes were largely single-speed, often with a fixed wheel. Brakes were still largely sidepulls at this time as well."

From here, and there are many more awesome pics there too.

Brake Or Burn!

Pic provided by Paulus, and it has something to do with Dublin apparently?

"Track Bike. No Brakes. No Rules"

MonsterTrack XII Promo from BODABODANYC on Vimeo.

Official MonsterTrack Sh*t !!

Awwwwwww....

Vai Footdown.

The Epic-est American Fixy Tour Continues

The trip advances, apparently. Feel free to come up with your own captions for the pictures. Riding up and down the mountains, getting h**h etc. Note also the 'support van'.

Ted Shreddin' It!

This old pic from the MASH Tour de California 2009 resurfaced on forums somewhere. Drop a chain while bombing a hill on a breakless fixie skidder biek, clipless and rocking SIDIs?
No probs, man!

Whoa, slippery!

This is apparently taken from a Dutch documentary on the subject of those trendy breakless fixie skidder bieks and there's a whole story behind this but I'll let somebody else who knows more tell you more...?

EDIT.
Here's the link mentioned in the comments to the post:
http://www.mediamatic.net/page/155201/en

Also, remember to check out the Pristine Fixed Gear Shop in Amsterdam if you're visiting:
http://www.pristinefixedgear.com/

"What the world looked like in ´93"

(Mortimer in New York, 2003.  Photo Maria Laub)

"MORTIMER, OWNER OF TRACK BIKE-SPECIFIC STORE KEIRIN BERLIN (www.keirinberlin.de), TELLS HOW IT WAS AND HOW IT IS:

I remember in ‘93 when I went to the first cycle messenger world championships (CMWC) in Berlin, i was not even allowed to start, as I had just started 2 months ago, and you had to be a bikemessenger for at least 6 months to compete, but to that story another time..., anyway back in ‘93 I heard some rumours about some guys riding without brakes, but I just thought yeah right...

A few years later in SF at the CMWC in ‘96, there was a trackbike only race, aaaah now I understand, those bikes that they use on the velodrome, damn it how cool is that...!???

So, in 97´ Barcelona Kevin from NYC organized the first skid competition of the CMWC, it smelt like rubber... we were all stoked, but still thought those guys must be crazy...

In ‘98 I left Berlin, first to London to messenger over there, after the ECMC in Graz I went to NYC and took my bike up to Montreal to the NACCC´s (North American Cycle Courier Champs) from there I went to Toronto, to stay with my Dutch friends Kamaal and Xander.  In summer ‘98 it was a big trend to go fixed in Toronto.  Keith from the courier cavern found a bunch of Coppi trackframes and started selling them to his messenger friends, some montreal connection. I had no money to get one, as I just “moved“ to North America...

After Toronto I went to Washington DC to the CMWC and also worked there a few months.  I really like DC, but I had NYC on my mind...

So I jumped on the chinatown bus, got a job at velocity on east 14th and stayed with James Bolger, who told and taught me everything about trackbikes.  Slacker Tim, Fast Eddie and Kevin also convinced me to get a bike...

When I went to Berlin for 3 weeks in September ‘98 I called an old friend who used to be a racer, he got me a bike for 50 German Marks (around 25 euro´s) it was a 1980´s East German Diamant trackbike with Campy cranks, Cinelli bars and stem and Renak hubs from east germany.  I went back to NYC and rebuilt the hubs with clinchers.  Still not 100% convinced I told james that I would just go to the park and try it on the weekend, he replied I should just go and work a day...it is easy, I will see.  So I did and I was hooked, that was October 98´!  I never had a frontbrake on my bike, nor did I ever think about it... NYC was cool “back in the days“ once you saw someone riding a trackbike he greeted you.  It was a very cool underground scene.  I remember the oldschool rastas who also worked at velocity. Timberland boots, flat pedals and big gear, and no attitude.  Yeah yeah, the good ol´ days...

In 2001 I went to Tokyo to ride my Cannondale trackbike thru´ asia.  In Tokyo there was only one guy who had a trackbike, but he was a dispatcher.

Nobody wanted to go to Keirin races, but I went and I loved it... I rode from Tokyo to Osaka, took a ferry to Shanghai, rode from there to Shanghai, down the coast to Hong Kong, over to Vietnam to Hanoi, down route one on the coast to Saigon, over to Cambodia to Phnom Penh, took a boat (too warm to ride) up to Siem Reap, and from there I went to Bangkok... all with around 20kg´s of luggage and no brakes, just fixed, with a flip flop hub, that i never turned around, as i had to take the whole rack off, too difficult.  It was an experience that I don´t want to miss and that I want to do again... one day!  So, anyone telling me that I am crazy or people are crazy who rides track bikes on the street, should try doing something like that on any bike, same same...

I went back to nyc after 9/11 worked in NYC till 2003 then opened the shop in Berlin in 2004, we were like a handful of people riding trackbikes.

We went to kyotoloco in May 2004 when the keirin frames where still available for 5000-10000 yen and almost no one was riding them on the street.

In 2005 I went to NYC for the CMWC and to work again as a bikemessenger.

The trackbike thing took off, everybody was riding fixedgear, mostly conversions or cheap complete bikes. Non-messengers started racing us to the next light and Williamsburg was full of people just walking down bedford ave with girlfriend on the left, bike on the right...when I came back to Berlin, more and more people got into it, but we never expected that it would go crazy like this.

I personally think that the fixed gear bike will stay, it is not just a trend. the bikes are so beautiful and simple, so anyone who likes bikes will get one, just to have one, or to see it as a piece of art for the wall..."

Via Cinelli True Story

Monster Track XI

BMX Polo

BMX Bike Polo from Sara Kinney on Vimeo.

Great! Especially since I believe that approximately 110% of the BMX kids roll brakeless these days...

'Flat Out - A Track Bike Journey'

"Flat Out" Teaser from FLAT OUT PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.

Monster Track 2010

For Kings & Queens. Read more here.

"What is monster Track? This here thing just happens to be the supreme, urban Track bike racing outfit in the nation. It came from bike messengers, specifically the track biking ones, in New York City looking to get challenged. It came from riders looking to brag and talk shit. It came from riders looking to have a little fun on the side, it came from rider looking to show their bike handling skillz in this here big, bad, metropolis we call Gotham city. It came from the world of messenger alley cats that happen all over the world. This is an event about speed and bragging right. It is not for everyone. It wills flat-out leave you behind if you’re not ready. But it is also exhilarating will leave you in a State of Euphoria.(supposedly) It will pump your blood level up a couple of notches . Monstertrack is an aphrodisiac. Its anotherway to get high. There a lot of ways you can ride a trak bike, this is the definitive one.This is about Riding your bike like you own it, and not letting it own you! The scene will undoubtedly change and evolve. But there will never be a substitute for straight up hard riding. Now that true brilliance. Once a year Monstertrack happens, and when it does bring your soul ,bike, No breaks and No fear Monstertrack XI .March 6th 2010"

Classic. Every single line...

I guess those creative subs were done by Mustaninja.

Fixed City Trailer

fixed city | Trailer from fixed city on Vimeo.

"Fixed City | German fixed gear culture captured in 2009
Riding fixed – a phenomenon. A close up in Germany, summer 2009. Switching between velodrome and trafficlights, messengers and fakengers, inspiration and revolution, trickriding and speed adiction, pragmatism and passion, purism and a very own poetry.
Screened August 2009.

Feel free to contact us for additional inspiration and useful hints.
From May 28th to June 2nd, you can meet us at the ECMC 2009 in Berlin."

From Berlin Fixed. 

Pic For Wednesday

I know girls love shoes and all that but those are probably not the best choice here...

WTF?! // From Berlin Again...

Now my German language skills are pretty much limited to ordering beer, buying döner kebab and to shouting rude words but those bikes are obviously 'brakeless fixie bikes' confiscated by der Berlin Polizei...