#newProduct | BLB AEON FRAMESET - BLACK CARBON

Hi riders!

Today we bring, maybe... your next Xmas or Black Friday gift... an amazing and flamant frameset from BLB... the AEON.... amazing....😍😍😍

#design | London Red Hook Specialized - Jon Takao Edition

Hi riders!

Do you remember the last London Red Hook Crit? Specialized has created an special fixed gear bike in collaboration with Jon Takao...amazing bike...love it!

#CyclingProject | Twentyeightco: Made in London apparel for urban cyclist

Hi riders! Today want to present you a new crowdfunding project from London (UK) called Twentyeightco, they need our support, and we would like to support them and..who nows, maybe soon we could review their urban cyclist in our section "product review". But to achive this great target first they need to pledge 16.000 pounds...

What is Twentyeightco?

Made In London, a brand created for the fashion conscious urban cyclist in mind. They produce high quality garments suitable for cycling

Leader 722 Heritage Lo by Bicycle There (UK)

New fixie from our fans! 

Today we want to show you this Leader 722 Heritage Lo by Bicycle There (UK), as he says, this fixie is first foray into fixed gear world in the streets of London.

Pictures were taken in front of one of iCity's buildings in Olympic park. Close-ups in random places.

London 2 Paris Trailer by @DanHagon

Our friend @DanHagon has sent us this video called "London 2 Paris", we don't have more info about the video...but it's great!

Uploaded to Vimeo by Hagon Creations

The London Cyclist

Onboard footage following a cyclist through the city of London. 

Uploaded to Youtube by tomandsteve 

You Spin Me Round

There is an incredible purity to track cycling. It's not unlike great design. When you pare everything down, forget the bells, whistles, frills and anything that isn't absolutely necessary, you are left with a track bike and a perfectly smooth, unobstructed course on which to ride it.

This is what a velodrome represents. Cycing, stripped down to the bare essentials. And it is beautiful. The bikes are works of art, fit to be stared at for lengthy periods, even while at rest.

The Forest City Velodrome (forestcityvelodrome.ca) in London, Canada, is a rare beast. There aren't many indoor velodromes in the world, and this is one of the more unusual of them all. In 2005, a few track cycling enthusiasts found an old unused hockey arena that had been set for demolition, and figured it was just barely big enough to cram a velodrome into.

You Spin Me Round from The Department of Style on Vimeo.

The Department of Style is a field guide to the timeless, the adventurous, and the enthusiastic. We celebrate craft. We explore tradition. We find the creative imaginations that take classic forms and make them their own.

It is about understanding that in life, doing something right takes time, and skill, and effort. But therein lies the joy. Finding people who still do those things that way and telling their stories is the original Departmental mandate.

Semper Intrepidus

Uploaded to Vimeo by The Department of Style 

Bamboo / Titanium bikes by David Protheroe

David Protheroe has sent us pics about one of his passions: the bamboo/titanium bikes. He has sent us a picture of his latest build, if any one would be interested in learning more about building with bamboo or they are interested in purchasing a frame please feel free to contact with David.

Fixie Bamboo / Titanium bike by David Protheroe

His story is that  his small company (only David) is called Revolucion frames,(inspired by Cuban poster art of the 50s and 60s). He works out of a small workshop at his home in the UK just outside London, its early days at the moment,the pic of the frame he sent us is only his second frame.

Road Bamboo / Titanium bike by David Protheroe

His aim is to just build a few frames a year and hopefully sell enough to enable him to carry on building. The build process simplified is a matter of using titanium ''lugs'' (pictured) placed in a jig then bamboo tubes are selected which have been cured (cooked) and have the right wall thickness etc, these are then inserted into the lugs using an aerospace construction adhesive. Decals are applied and then a finishing UV lacquer. He has also sent us a pic of the road bike he built a while back (road) this is built using a carbon wrapping technique, but he prefer working with titanium and will carry on using this process and building fixies as these are very popular in London.

Bamboo / Titanium bike by David Protheroe

  Thanks David for your pics, and your ideas...we need people like you in this days...eco-innovative ideas!

FIXED 'n' CHIPS 2012

This video uploaded to vimeo by BÖIKZMÖIND, is descripted by the creator like this:

FIXED 'n' CHIPS was a fixed gear bike alleycat race here in Bristol, UK with each of the 5 checkpoints being a Chip Shop. The race was all based on points, so the fastest to each checkpoint would receive 10 points, the second fastest receiving 9 points and so on. However, each rider could choose to stop and order a battered sausage or pot of mushy peas and receive a special 5 points bonus points card. The risk in doing that lay in time… do you stop for a sausage or grab whatever points you can and try and get to the next checkpoint quickly for a possibly 10 points!?

The race proved really quite tactical and it turned out that the results were very surprising indeed! 

The checkpoints could be visited in any order, so it was up to the racers which route they took. It turned out that it simply wasn’t enough to be super fast, because Al McCarthy, who was the fastest visiting all 5 checkpoints in just 30mins actually ended up 6th because the winner, Paul Bennellick, not only visited the checkpoints as fast as he could, he then took the time to go back to each chippy and wolf down a pot of mushy peas, therefore ensuring his place as the FIXED ‘n’ CHIPS Grand Champion! So the old adage was true… points do mean prizes!

Prizes bring us to the awesome sponsors, of which there were many and plentiful. From State Bicycle Co. giving us an entire complete bicycle for the grand prize to Whiteduck Screenprint for printing all the clothing, there were so many fantastic goodies from our sponsors for the riders, so let me say a huge thank you to them for supporting the event!

FIXED 'n' CHIPS 2012 from BÖIKZMÖIND on Vimeo.

Let me thank the 79 riders who turned up to take part in the fun, it was so overwhelming to see so many faces, new and old. I did not expect that many people so it meant an awful lot to me that they came to race!

Lastly, let me thank everyone who helped out with the event, there’s too many to name because so many awesome people gave me their time. In particular thank you to Jason for being my right-hand man, thank you to the checkpoint chaps Jake, Julien, Liam, Merlin & Kieran and to Jonny and his filming crew for capturing the action on film!

SPONSORS
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State Bicycle Co. / Knog / Artcrank / Freshtripe / Fixed Shit Up / Il Soigneur / Bristol Dropouts / Restrap / Fruitmachine / Deafpigeon / Milltag

PRINTERS
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Ripe Digital / Whiteduck Screenprint

Look out for FIXED 'n' CHIPS 2 - BIGGER & BATTER coming Summer 2013, stay tuned using the links below:

boikzmoind.com/fixednchips ○ facebook.com/BOIKZMOIND ○ twitter.com/boikzmoind

BÖIKZMÖIND FULL FILM NOW AVAILABLE FROM:
gumroad.com/l/boikzmoind