The Inverted Bike Shop -> Show Love

I like the personal approach to this Brooklyn based bike shop called 718c Cyclery, and the overall in-store presentation, especially the exploded view of the bicycle hung on the wall towards the beginning of the video. Pretty fresh. Nice documentary coming from the story tellers at showloveworld.com.

Notes from Vimeo:

“Amongst the multitude of bike shops across Manhattan and [...]

Bike by Me -> Custom Bicycles

This is an efficient and well designed custom bike shop called ‘Bike by Me’. In short, you have some fun picking the colors, pay up and ride away, all that usually in less than one week’s time. The fixed gear (track bike) 4130 CrMo frame and fork design is of high quality and shows up [...]

Cannondale Dutchess -> Bicycle Design

Cannondale has partnered with designer Wytze Van Mansum to produce this innovative new woman’s bicycle called the ‘Dutchess’. The most noticeable design enhancement is the crank system, breaking free from a traditional exposed sprocket this ‘integrated transmission’ system is concealed by the organic frame tubing and all gears live within the back hub. I’m sure [...]

Rapha -> Gentlemen’s Race Northwest

This is a great video documentary sponsored/produced by the stylish cycle gear company ‘Rapha’ called ‘Gentlemen’s Race Northwest’. The race consists of 23 teams and spans over 137 miles of scenic Portland countryside and is “Unsanctioned. Unmarshalled.”. The footage is really nicely captured and edited, unfortunately the equipment and music artist is unknown to me [...]

1958 Urago Bicycle -> Coopertechnica

As I sit here waiting for the rain to blow over and for the pavement to dry a bit so that I can go on a bike ride, I’ve decided to dip into David Cooper’s bicycle collection on coopertechnica.com once again. This time we’re looking at an extremely rare French made 1958 Urago Bicycle crafted [...]

Arndt Menke- Zumbragel -> Woodway Bicycle

At a time when we are seeing sustainable materials being used for almost anything and everything, Berlin based designer Arndt Menke- Zumbragel is no exception and has created this beautiful bicycle frame from wood tubing. Weighing in at only 2.3 kg this fully functional bicycle is as much as a work of fine art as [...]

Urban Outfitters -> Bike Shop

Smart move by Urban Outfitters. They’ve launched their very own fixed gear online configurator bike shop -> “A singlespeed bike with a flip-flop hub, Aristotle‘s clean lines and components balance value and visual.” It must be doing pretty well because they are already backlogged with orders. Similar to a Nike Lab approach, the experience allows [...]

1974 Harry Quinn -> Touring Bicycle

This is yet another one of David Cooper’s classic bicycle gems from way back in 1974 (oh lord, my birth year, and probably holding up better than I am…). This 34 year old road frame is about as classy as can be and would be an amazing commuter bike for some lucky, smartly creased, [...]

1899 Columbia Model 59 -> Antique Fixie

I came across this this amazing piece of history while browsing one of my favorite time-killing bicycle web destinations www.fixedgeargallery.com. Fixed Gear Gallery is a running picture gallery of fixed gear bikes from all over the world that is updated daily (currently about 9,400 posts). I’ve seen some pretty wild creations. If you have a [...]

Danish Cargo Bike Championships -> Svajerløb 2009

Svajerløb 2009 – Danish Cargo Bike Championships from Colville Andersen on Vimeo.

Apparently, the bicycle crazed city of Copenhagen has seen the re-emergence of an old cycle race called ‘svajer’. ‘Svajere’ were the cargo bike messengers that ruled the streets of Copenhagen for decades in the first half of the 20th century. The race itself seems [...]

Great “Skid Vid” -> Video for Fans of Fixie

A Taste of The Toast from Michael on Vimeo.

This video, “A Taste of the Toast” is very well done. Amongst thousands of fixed gear/fixie videos available to us this one definitely stands out from the clutter. Accompanied by a nicely paced audio track you’ll take in some solid cinematography and some talented riders who are [...]

Brand new BMX edit.! -> by Anton = Clean, Fun, mindless Friday veiwing

Brand new BMX edit.! from Anton on Vimeo.

O.k. I’ll come clean. Mom, Dad, I hope your not reading this one. I spent easily 15% of my college years watching skateboard and BMX videos with my friends. From beneath our dorm room door and lingering down the hall emanated the tribal-esque sounds of young hairy unshowered [...]