posted on 15.01.10 Get Your Fix!

After spending many hours milling over which Fixie/commuter bike to buy, I began to realize that the components and price were all within the same ballpark everywhere I looked. It came down to which one looked the best to me. I came across bigshotbikes.com a site similiar to republicbike.com (which I posted about a few months back) in that you can pick out the color of everything from the chain to the saddle to the rims. Big Shot takes the cake on Republic in the larger selection of colors, $35 price difference, and they are a colorado local company, building the bikes right next door in Fort Collins. The large number of color options makes for some pretty wild combinations. Here were some of the runners up.

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posted on 20.10.09 Build a Bike

With everything going custom these days it is no surprise Republic Bikes has come out with a totally customizable bike. They offer component and color selection curated for quality, value and aesthetics.  Pick, choose, swap and decide and they build it, box it, and ship it out. Their bike called the Aristotle is a singlespeed bicycle with a fixed/free hub, just flip around your rear wheel anytime to switch from fixed to not. Or not to fixed. And back.

For details and specifications or to build a custom Aristotle for $399 visit:

http://www.republicbike.com/


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posted on 09.09.09 Daily Double from the Bubble

Ok, so I have been going a lil crazy with the ‘rad’ posts this week, but this one is just too good to continue in a blogosphere holding pattern.  A month or so back I posted on DC x Ken Block’s Gymkhana 2 video (watch here) that blew us all away visually.  The breathtaking slow motion videography evokes palpable levels of stoke that are becoming harder and harder to capture in extreme sports these days.  Well, by way of hype mad man Rob Dyrdek and his Fantasy Factory show on MTV, we present to you, Gymkhana 2.1

And if you thought that was great, I give you my personal favorite, Ken Block’s version of an ‘interview’ on the smashingly entertaining gear head tv program Top Gear.  Be sure to look out for dirt biker Ricky Carmichael’s cameo half way through the video.  HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!


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