So, this Saturday I am having a "shop sale", with 3 bikes for sale (diablo, the bike formerly known as the Chris King bike and The Big-Ass le Tour). In looking around my "shop" , I realized I was 1 BB short of a complete 4th bike. Thus, Frakenbike52 was born, sporting a 52t chainring, and a threaded-to-threadless stem adapter. It rides like you’d imagine.

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available on EBAY for the next couple days.

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man, THIS video damn near put tears in my eyes. all the old heads gathering up to goof off with old tricks on old bikes.

nicely supplemented by THIS video, which is woody itson describing probably the most famous BMX freestyle bike ever — his signature, gold-plated hutch trick star from 1985. the screencap at the top of this post shows the front brakes, which are the most unique thing i’ve ever seen on a bike — centerpulls with a potts mod. the potts mod was a 1984 invention by steve potts, where the front brake cable was routed down through a hollow stem bolt and came out under the fork crown — since the cabling was inside the fork, this allowed the bars to spin without the front brake cable stopping them midway through. anyway, because of the way centerpull brakes work, integrating a potts mod (which pulls from below) was a pretty big deal.

memories.

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not only does THIS new vimeo channel have all the prerequisite footage of norCal’s preeminent fixed crew killing the SF streets, but it also has both old- and new-school BMX footage, a couple music videos, and a funny video project with michael jackson, back when he was still black.

check it!

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Want! I mean, I’m not dropping $300 for this at the moment, but having a helmet integrated HD cam with 16GB chip capacity? YES.

http://www.vholdr.com/

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It’s just a concept, but it must be stopped.
http://gizmodo.com/5231252/bike-handleb … +in-basket

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There are haters out there in the cynical cycling community who are backlashing against the rise of the ‘Dutch Bike’ or the ‘Amsterdam Cruiser’ or the ‘multiple spacious bike lanes and protected bike pathways in a largely bike-dominated urban metropolis’.

Here’s what Denmark is like.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWF4x01M … r_embedded

Just like SF or Williamsburg, except for where it’s only like the WrongRoom(tm), ManRoom(tm), ManShed(tm) interiors, and about 45 minutes into Critical Mass when you’re surrounded by cute college girls in leggings.

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usually, i carry my u-lock either in the back pocket of my pants or in the specially-made lock pouch on my hipSack. but recently, i got a new pair of jeans whose back pocket is JUUUST a hair too small to fit the lock. i can wiggle it down IN there if i really try, but mostly all i’m doing is starting a process of weakening the stitching, and eventually i’ll ruin the jeans, which i quite like.

thus, i picked up one of these babies. i’ve seen them around town, and i’ve researched them before because frankly, they’re genius. starting with a reclaimed section of car seatbelt, philadelphia-based FABRIC HORSE creates a simple band with a belt loop at each end. the size is exact, so that when you put your belt through the holster’s loops (leaving the band outside your belt), the lock’s main locking body mass keeps it from sliding all the way through. (see the picture above.) simple and elegant.

now the pants i’m wearing today are dickies and they’re in no danger of getting a pocket blowout, and the lock fits fine in the back pocket of them anyway, but i still needed to test it, for science. and i can say after only one ride with it that it appears to be all killer and no filler. the lock slides easily into and out of the holster, and when it’s on your bike, the empty holster just lays flat against your belt, with no feelings that you’re wearing something unusual. unexpectedly, i noticed a difference when i was riding, too. previously, i thought that i wasn’t feeling the lock in my back pocket, but this morning, without it there, i noticed that i HAD been, cause i WASN’T with the holster. it’s HEAVENLY. so much so, and so SURPRISINGLY so, that i think i’m gonna actually use this whether or not the lock fits in the pocket of the pants i’m wearing. it’s THAT much better.

the only thing i’ve noticed that’s in any way a negative is that when i’m standing up nice and straight, wearing a backpack, the bottom of the backpack bumps the lock in it’s holster. obviously, this is not an issue on the bike, cause you’re bent over, causing the backpack to rise a bit. and i’m rarely going to be standing around with a backpack and the lock both on, cause if i’m standing around the lock’s ON the bike. but even so, it’s of no concern to me.

i rate this a solid 10/10 CLANKS! accessory. it’s recycled, it’s useful, and it’s cheap.

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BELIEVE.

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