money for nothing and your fixies for free

This is genius. (offsite link to the fixie gallery)

This bike has a flip flip with a freewheel on each side AND a drivetrain on each side...just think about it.

additional pics and description

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california's new velodrome?

on our way over 152 we passed a sign for pistaccios, but half of it was missing so it simply said "pista"

nisi pista speciali

I went and purchased some rims on ebay, I know, I know - sheesh lay off me already.

they are pretty much the lightest rims out there - 220 grams each, excluding the required washers as they don't come with eyelet grommets, but just the same, their lighter than the fiamme ergals (which is mind boggling to me).

They were laced and glued but never ridden (they were on a show bike).

I'm trying to figure out if I should invest in some ultralight washers now or just use the stock ones.

pictures posted later...

fixies in the nytimes

well, they do have fixies there no? I saw a few two weeks ago when I was only there for seven hours or so...

A NYTimes article (link offsite requires free subscription) featured these great pictures of a fixie locked up (mostly) to a parking meter. cross your fingers I don't get busted for posting these here but they were too good to pass up:

stolen fixies

the bad news on the fixie front is salim's basement was broken into and two of his bikes were stolen. he did mention recently trying to pare down...don't think that is what he had in mind...
sucko.

matt chester

I rode the MC in to work today, anachronistically set up with a campy shamal front wheel and a fiamme ergal (yellow label) on a 63 campy 28 hole track hub. soooooooo sexy.

all manner of crap pt 1

ok, call me slack.
a hundred things have stopped me contributing recently. did i say recently? i meant forever!
a house purchase, a dead laptop, dad having a heart attack...
all these things plus i JUST WASN'T RIDING MY FIXIE!
wow. i just admitted to something there.
until recently (the last few weeks) i have hardly ridden fixie in nearly a year.
so, writing stuff for yo!fixie hasn't exactly felt like a priority to me.
HOWEVER...
i'm back!
there will pretty soon be a new yo!fixie site and hopefully a magazine to follow in the summer.
lots of people have offered their help but this is mine and aram's baby and we want to be proud parents.
so, forgive us if we are slack, take our time etc.
it WILL be worth the wait.
we promise.
we just want it to be just right.
like an old skool ska album.
nowyouknowwhatimtalkingabout.
gordon

five fold four fixies

yeah. coffee with salim at bean there in the lower haight. I shit you not: 20 fixies at the corner of fillmore and waller in the space of one hour. 20! only 3 got coffee, the rest fixilated off to wherever they were heading, most apparently toward market street...