FBM Sword SQ.
Posted by: kris on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 12:56 pmThese were popping up all over twitter…then my roomate was drooling through texts at me about ‘em…so i peeped the new FBM Sword SQ over at John’s spot. These have always been one of the nicer bikes to have (since they came out anyhow) and just by looking at them you can see why. I’ve seent these ridden at trick bikes and fast bikes with both looking equally as fresh. The new Swords have an OX Platinum top and down tube and are built in a traditional track geo…with 48, 52 and 56cm sizing. I couldnt quite fit on one of these but man itd be nice to get fast around town on one.
Focale 44: Polo Bike.
Posted by: kris on Thursday, September 2nd, 2010 10:17 amComing from Focale 44 is a complete polo build about ready to hit the court. The name….Polo Bike…might not be too catchy but it works for obvious reasons ha. The bike itself looks pretty well set up with low gearing and some 48 spokers to help control the ball. Looks like it’ll be coming in right around $700 which i’d never spend on a bike thats going to get beat to nothing…but its still a decent price for a complete bike. I like the “final word” of the press release haha:
Focale 44 is proud to introduce one of the first (if not the first) polo bike so far : the Polo Bike. Yes, the bike name is so obvious that you instantaneously know what it is all about.
The attached picture is the only we have now. A kind of spy shot from Eurobike show, taken by La Finca Distribution, our distributor in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
That Polo Bike has been developped in cooparation with a bikepolo team from Toulouse, France. Mainly with one of the crew : Théo Guerry. Starting from a Full Moon bike (Focale 44 first bike of the range), we changed the following parts to make it polo-ready :
- short and raised stem
- laidback seatpost
- confortable seat
- 28/16 gearing
- 2 chainguards
- 700×28c tires
- and last but not least 48-spoke wheels.
Retail price should remain under 600 euros in Europe. Available in november 2010.
Final word : We know that this Polo Bike may not be perfect. However, it exists, which is better than nothing.
Ken Evans and a Repco.
Posted by: kris on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 9:27 amEvery now and then some real fine piece of machinery pop up on Fixed Gear Gallery. Mark Bauman’s ‘84 Ken Evans and Repco are pretty spiffy. I’ve always like the Superbe Pro groupset…likely because my first build even had a collection of Suntour bits on it. Nice rides for sure!
30 Seconds Bikes.
Posted by: kris on Tuesday, August 31st, 2010 7:51 amI wanst going to put these up…but damn, first dude looks like brad so i gotta. Hahaha…Jared Leto not so much. Chari & Co. hooking up the 30 Seconds to Mars guys is pretty rad though. I mean…they have a music video with bikes so they oughta be riding some right?
Loose Nuts Butcher.
Posted by: kris on Thursday, August 26th, 2010 9:56 amChris Tavel built up his proto Eighthinch Butcher and holy hell…its looking good. For those of you were wondering what tires you can drop into these, its a bit easier to make out on this build. 50c Rando in the rear and a 54 Continental hangin up front. Beastly. Looks solid man!
Red Your Dead.
Posted by: kris on Wednesday, August 25th, 2010 11:40 amIf you ever checked out RYD in the past you might have found the website to be lacking. The inexpensive bike and parts produced recently updated their website to run a little more smoothly. Though its up now, there is some stuff that has yes to be edited from the update…like the filler text on the blog. Regardless, the fresh look should make it easier to keep up with them!
Im not too nor have i even been too keen on the name…oh well!
Bob Jackson.
Posted by: kris on Friday, August 20th, 2010 2:17 amSexy build. Im about everything except the hubs…and the fact that the drive side photo was too dark to post. Ha. Found on Yuraa’s flickr. The beach sounds good right now.
Vintage.
Posted by: kris on Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 11:17 amThis may have been posted somewhere before…oh well! What i do know is that ive spent the better part of the past hour looking at Oldbike.eu and all the history available to take in. Vintage rides from as far back as the 1860s, catalogs complete with telegraph codes for ordering and a nice bit on bicycle history. There’s such a mass amount of interesting photos and information that you could easily spend the better part of a day looking through it. For each post there is a good bit of info on the bikes and their features…diagrams and instructions are included in some of the post in addition to photos. It was hard picking only a few things to post here (havent looked through it all yet either!) but some of my favorites are below…
Pages from a 1917 Iver Johnson and 1907 Royal Enfield catalog. There’s a bunch of other brands up on there as well.
Krillz 26” Yo Mang!
Posted by: kris on Tuesday, August 17th, 2010 11:55 amAt the forefront of 26″ fixed specific frames is certainly the guys at Grime. Wonka, Mike and Krillz have been hard at word designing and promoting their baby resulting in some unique fixed freestyle frames. Krillz just posted up his large 26″ Yo Mang on Trick Track this morning and it goes something like this…
Sonicribbon: Bicycle Auras.
Posted by: kris on Monday, August 16th, 2010 8:17 pmCame across these nifty pieces tonight from Sonicribbon. Each of these looks to be a watercolor of someone by Jessica Findley…an assortment of bikes form tall bits to people doing wheelies. Im diggin ‘em! Theres one more below and a bunch more on the Sonicribbon flickr…
