Fixed // Book Launch

Even if you cannot make it to the launch party in London the book is actually real nice, get it HERE for a good price w/ free global shipping. I'll write a review later, I promise.

'Fixed // Global Fixed-Gear Bike Culture'

A Very Old Panasonic Track Bike, kind of...

Here's an interesting Panasonic / National catalogue pic from the 1970s. 

Why? Because it's an entry-level 'training track bicycle' AKA cheap fixed gear bike made from probably very crappy components and from very heavy low-end tubing. Just like what so many companies are pushing on the market right now, just go to Ebay and do a search for 'track bike'... Basically a ' track bike' which is really not a track bike at all but sold as such anyway. 

In a way you could say that Panasonic were like 30 years ahead of the game with a bike like that back in the day. 

KRS-One & his Freestyle Fix

Everyone knows that the NYC bike messengers started riding track bikes on the streets sometime during late 1980s or early 1990s because they were easy to maintain etc., right, and the rest is history, so to say? 

Well, check out KRS-One' lyric on Boogie Down Productions' 'The P Is Free' from the 'Criminal Minded' (1986) album:

"Ridin one day on my freestyle fix
Jammin to a tape scott larock had mixed

I said to myself this tape sound funky

Ridin past the 116th street junkie
Thought I saw denise but I was only assumin
Took another look and that butt was boomin
Did a little trick on my freestyle fix..."