Artist INSA has finished his Girls on Bikes series, combining the two-wheeled consumerist fetish-item de jour and cute girls. Watch them ride in front of INSA’s murals across Los Angeles, London, Ghent and Hong Kong, jutting out their assets whilst scantily clad in appealing albeit not bike-practical attire. Read more »
Unlike that Midnight Ridazz video where he pretended to ride a fixed gear (you can see him coasting at the 3:03 mark), here’s actual photographic evidence of Jared Leto riding his newly bought Cinelli track bike safely around the city with his finger firmly on the front brake. Monster Track 2011?
Well, look who just bought themselves a track bike. Here is none other than actor and rocker Jared Leto showing off his sparkling new Cinelli stocked with all the cool guy components that hip Manhattan bike shop Chari & Co. could sell him, ensuring a smooth transition into the fixie scene. He’ll blend right in. (Photo: Chari & Co.)
Graphic illustrator Halfanese has a thing for Suicide Girl-types, cityscapes and fixed gear bikes as of late and over the past month, cranked out a series of work specifically combining all of these elements.
Finally, the movie that many of you have been waiting for: To Live & Ride In L.A.. It’s the “first feature-length film about L.A.’s underground fixed-gear culture” and is chock full of dramatically shot footage in a city that was mainly built for cars. Read more »
Although no one serious about buying a pricey track bike would do so from Wallpaper magazine, here’s their “International.” Available in two sizes: one for really tall people (58cm), the other for more normal heights (54cm), the limited edition fixed gears come with very fancy paint jobs and handbuilt Kinfolk frames that can be separated via S and S couplers for easy transport. Priced between $3,800 – 4,600.
For their latest runway show, high fashion brand Monclear broke out the single-speed bikes (not fixed gears) and had models ride around the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan to show off their new sporty, cycle-centric line, thereby breaking streetwear’s monopoly and giving other brands a chance to co-opt elements of the globally popular subculture.
As part of their ongoing commitment to cycling (and commerce), Puma released its latest series of collaborative Biomega bikes, but it’s the Funk model that piqued our interest most. The single speed sports a flip-flop hub allowing riders to choose between fixed gear and freewheel—so make sure you hold on to those brakes. All-in-all, It’s a little pricey, design heavy and offers nothing special, component-wise, but it is a nice nod by a footwear/apparel brand that consistently appears to have more chips in the cycling game than any of its competitors. They also get points for NOT perverting it with riser bars.
Although riding around the streets on a fixed gear with riser bars and color coordinated components is fun and all, the real action is on the track. Luckily, NYC has one and for the next two weeks, cycling master John Campo will be teaching people the ways of the fixed at the Kissena Velodrome in Queens…for free! (Read some of the basic rules here.) The classes run from 12:30pm-2:30pm, but it makes sense to arrive at least 30-45 minutes early and make sure you have a proper set of drop bars regardless of how much your more trendy track friends will judge you. For more info, email this guy
Apart from the handlebars—sorry, real track drops for life yo—this special edition Cinelli makes for one sweet-ass ride.
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