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Reinventing the wheel
All photos stolen from Cyclingnews.com
Call us boring, but trying to reinvent the track bike/fixed wheel is a fruitless task.
They nailed it in the 80's... (insert link to the amazing green Conti on Velospace HERE)
It hasn't stopped many of the world's finest builders to mess with a perfect recipe.
An example.
Vividly we can remember awkwardly landing a jump in a DH race (in Bolivia), and crashing down onto the chainring. Still got the scar.
We're sure the intention of the above bike is not to be ridden down the side of La Paz, but having a disc rotor spinning like a blunt rottiserie would be enough to stop us even throwing a leg over.
Isn't the beauty of track bikes about 'sans freins'?
It's not all doom and gloom.
So without further knocking of the stuff we think is hmmmmm..... interesting, let's focus on the shining lights.
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Check out the Alternative Needs Transportation (ANT).
Perhaps it's not quite at the 'throw away the car' stage, but you could porter a lot of stuff in comfort on one of these.
We'll have our rug back too when you're done...
Continuing the portage theme, a blend of the randonneur which we're sure will warm Scooter's heart.
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Out of the BC gulf islands, comes Naked designs.
I'm willing to bet a Bon's breakfast that this Naked U-lock concept was developed from an idea of Vancouver courier/magician Dr. J - sure they credited him accordingly...
Customised EVERYTHING. Beautiful throughout.
Wooden rims, wooden grips, just the bike to whiz around town in style and comfort. Just don't lock it up in Gastown.
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Our pick?
Carbon, dressed up as steel, adorned with the timesless Victory gruppo.
Notorious velophiles asked why WE built a Colnago in a particular fashion... We ask the same of this headset mishap.
This, and the use of a modern post were the only minor blemishs we could see on an otherwise sterling overall build.
Proof that carbon doesn't have to look like it's part of the NASA space program.
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When you're a kid, bamboo is great to play with! You can make anything with it, and it's tough.
These kids agree.
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Love will tear us apart.
SS couplings will bring us back together.
IF's singlespeed crosser.
Unfortunately for you AND IF, this picture doesn't do the bike justice.
NEXTCycling is a specific sport.
Specifically, if you're a the 'right' height (55cm-58cm frame), there is a synergy in the composition of the bike, wheels relative to frame, the perfect headtube length, stem, post...
We'll forgive the owner of this for being 6'10".
It's a red hot ride when you get over it, even with sheeeee-man-ooo.
NEXTComing from Australia, it's hard to get your head around the need for this.
Until you've experienced a blizzard, and four feet of snow in your own backyard!
Moots has the answer for those days. Which can be many in the northern parts.
Under the watchful of eye of arguably Melburn's best wheel builder, we built our first set of wheels.
It's not as dark an art we once thought.
Our wheels appeared to be round, true, and only took about 5 hours to do, further illustrating that a good wheel builder is worth their weight in gold!
With that in mind...
Check out the spoke cutter to the right of shot for the perfect length, every time.
Just what you need to build your wooden wheels...
When we asked a certain authority on the subject of wooden rims, we discovered their disappearance wasn't due to the inferior performance, but largely due to catastrophic result of exploding wooden rims, splinters entering the body in a crash.
Let us know if you can remember racing on wooden wheels...
LASTLY
You can't forget the kids!
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