it's a mischief world: February 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Nice Old Skool!

I don't know much about this bike other than it is very nicely built. From the Panasonic history website, Panasonic organized a Panasonic/Shimano team in the US in 1979. I really like the fastback seatlug treatment, but I could see problems with over tightening of the seatbolt with it threading into the other seatstay. The fork has beefy round fork blades and even the seatstays are rather large.

Sale

Selling this frameset (w/o wheelset) for rm300 firm

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Fixed Gear Fad...for how long?

Surely the fad for fixed gear is coming to an end... The current mania for fixed-wheel bikes has provided some heartwarming sights - the sweetest being Pete Doherty look-a-likees pushing their Bianchi Pistas up any hill with an incline worse than 1 in 25. But that arbiter of bike fashion, the courier, must surely be seething every time some whey-faced child in skinny jeans pulls up at the lights and winks over his nu-rave sunglasses at him because, hey look, we're both ridin' fixed, mate!

So, when the fixed fad passes what will the cool kids be riding in a year or two?

The problem is, the fixie is a bit of an evolutionary dead end in terms of bikes - it's a minimal set-up, and if you start stripping anything else off it, it becomes.. a unicycle.

Where next then?

This Is Armstrong

Meet Lancegore Armstrong - the winner of Le Tour De Rawang.
An avid hillbomber and celebrity cyclist photographer.
Famous for his quote, "hills & thrills means.....awesome"