If it’s fixed, don’t brake it

Ok, horrible puns (if you don’t get it now, you will by the end of this article) aside, I just want to share a recent trend with all you devoted followers (and apollogize for having disappeared for a few weeks. I was working on a paying movie gig. I’ll write up that story once its all over). A while back I started noticing that there were more and more really nice looking road bikes around in my life and after a bit of research stumbled upon the source of this stylish madness: FIXED GEAR BIKES! So, just to explain: besides being totally awesome looking, fixed-gear bicycles only have one gear in the back (as opposed to a cassette of gears and a deraileur) which is connected directly to the crank in the front. As long as your feet are moving, the bike is too (and vice versa). This means NO COASTING, which leads to some hardcore innovation especially when i comes to skids, which are the only legit way to stop a fixie. And in all this fixie madness I came upon a series of totally awesome videos, which was really the whole point of this post, actually. Nice-ass bikes in nice lookin videos, doin nice ass shit:

MACAFRAMA - an important bay-area fixed group with probably the nicest lookin vids around. Look them up on vimeo and watch all 18 of their 30 second long videos. Soooo good.

Macaframa SF Track Bike Promo from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.

Track Bike Troops - Of course we can trace the root of the crazsanity all the way back to Japan. They know how to do their shit. And start trends.

HELLRIDE FILMS “TRACK BIKE TROOPS”1/3 from UNKNOWN Live magazine on Vimeo.

MASH SF - Finally another Bay based group who knows how to tear shit up.

Enjoy your trend update! And get a bike.
- Sam

*BONUS TIEM LOLZ!* - the Mash team in Austin friggin Texas bombin down Congress with our man Lance! Super duper video. See how many of the locations you know.

MASH Austin with Lance Armstrong 2008 from MASH TRANSIT PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.