New Kazane Track Frames

Nice! Check 'em out here.

July Events

There are a good few events going on in July. Here are a few of them. If you're planning an alleycat or a race or whatever, drop me a line and I'll try to get the word out.

No Brakes Atlanta 2nd Anniversary! - July 10th - Atlanta, GA - Details here.

Velocity Atlanta - July 12th - Details here.

Future Tense - July 1oth - Seattle, WA - Details here.

Broadway 4th of July Race - New York, NY.

Black and Gold Sprints (running on the OpenSprints system)- July 2nd - Pittsburgh, PA - Details here.

Trackstar Courier Classic - July 11th- New York, NY - Details here.

Colnago Museum Tour with Ernesto Colnago

Just watched this cool video of Ernesto Colnago giving a guided tour of the Colnago Museum. Check it out over at Bike Radar.

Coolest thing I've seen in a while...

More here.

Le Cyclisme Sur Piste — Vitesse

This is perfect. A French guide to track cycling written in the interwar years. I love it. Check it out over at Cycle Zine.

Seen on Tracko.

Brakeless is Suicide

Brakeless is Suicide is a photo expo by Ines Gonzalez Cordero and Sammy Utiger about track bikes on the street. Geneva, Switzerland, 11th to the 25th of June. "We are the motor, we are the brakes." I like that.

Northbrook Opening Night Photos

Last night was opening night at Ed Rudolph Velodrome in Northbrook, IL, where Henry of Team Pegasus won the first Cat3 race of the season. Nice one, Henry! Ed White took some brilliant pictures of the action. If you're in Chicago you should head up to Northbrook on Thursday nights to watch the racing. Rumor is they'll have a grill going next week...

Al of Cuttin Crew giving it loads! Photo by Ed White.

Dave of xXx. Photo by Ed White.

Aram of Pony Shop. Photo by Ed White.

From left: Brean, Al and Jeff of Cuttin Crew, and Andrew of Team Pegasus. Photo by Ed White.

Val of Bouledogue Tout Noir winning the points race. Photo by Ed White.

Macaframa DVD Now Available

Get it here.

The Keirin

No Brakes and Kazane present 'The Keirin' at Dick Lane Velodrome, Atlanta GA, on Saturday, May 9th. If you're anywhere near ATL, definitely do not miss this night of pro track racing. It will be brilliant.

[update] Chicago rider Josh Ryan, of the Bouledogue Tout Noir cycling team, has been invited to race The Keirin. Go Josh! Plus, due to a mess up with his team's kit order, he might be racing in Team Pegasus colours. We got us a ringer!

Northbrook Committee Meeting

Northbrook Cycling Committee, the group that manages the Ed Rudolph velodrome, will have its next meeting this Thursday, April 16th at the Village Green in Northbrook, at 7:00 pm. Everyone interested in track racing in Chicago should try to attend.

Also, the first night of racing at Northbrook is a little over a month away with Opening Night happening on May 14th. Check out the Northbrook page for more details.

Natas and Kazane

Dope as hell! Natas did his thing with Stratton at Kazane to produce this gorgeous frame. I want it, badly.

More details over at Kazane.

Thanks to Aaron for the heads up!!

Zlog

You've seen this already, but I wanted to post about it anyway, because I missed it when it dropped first and because I really like it.


Drop bars, not bombs. Couldn't agree more. Get it here.

Koga Kimera!

Remember that bike Koga-Miyata designed for Theo Bos? The one that cost $1,000,000 to develop and was made with the help of rocket scientists? Fancy owning one? Got $5,000 lying around spare? Well, the story over on FixedGearFever is that the Koga Kimera will be available to buy, by special order only, from the end of April. Now this is one product I definitely need to review. Koga, I'll email you the address where you can send my bike. Cheers.

World Championships Videos

Not a lot on the internet yet, but check these out:

Baugé and Awang's 2nd match sprint:


Baugé and Awang's 3rd match sprint, for the men's gold:


Pendleton and Kanis' 3rd match sprint, for the women's gold:


Lithuania's Simona Krupeckaite getting the gold and setting a new 500m women's time trial world record:


France versus Britain in the men's team sprint:


Women's keirin final:


Men's keirin final:


That's your lot!

Collage

76 Olympics #1, by Matt Partridge. Check out more of his collage stuff here.

Thanks to Sage (Pegasus what?!) for the heads-up.

Best. Bike. Website. Ever.

You know that scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark, when the ark is being put into storage in that massive OSS warehouse? Well, the Embacher Collection is that, but for bikes, and in Austria. It's an amazing collection of over 200 historic bikes and components, and you can check it and the bikes out here.

Peka Steher

Corima Cougar

Schauff Aero

Seen over on TrackosaurusRex.

Worldwide

Updated VeloCity 2009 flyer - Various Cities and Dates - Details here.

7th Friderday Taipei Fixed Gear Meetup - March 28th - Details here.

Blue Angles Alleycat, Sprints, Polo, Tricks and More - July 10th-12th - Details here.

Hong Kong Attack - Apil 11th - Details here.

Back to Normal

Hipster Nascar has finally disappeared from Blogger's Blogs of Note page, so my numbers have gone down to "pre-fame" levels, but so have the amounts of dodgy Chinese spam and comments like "hey i really like your blog bikes are cool and i have a blog too it's about FINANCIAL SERVICES." So it's a case of swings and roundabouts, I suppose. Unfortunately, I'm sick with a bad cold right now, and couldn't be feckin' bothered posting anything substantive, so you'll have to make do with this classic photo for a while:

Bos versus Hoy - World Track Cycling Championships 2008 - Manchester Velodrome - Photo by johnthescone

6 Days

I saw this brilliant poster on Prolly's blog the other day, and it got me thinking. Why not have a return to epic 6 day racing at the home of the event, Madison Square Garden in NYC? London are planning on having a 6 next year, and 6s all over mainland Europe sell out weeks in advance, so why not NYC? Okay, maybe not at the Garden, but certainly there's enough interest in track bikes right now that a well publicized 6 day event could be successful. Hopefully someone will bring the Madison home soon, but in the meantime check out the Alpenrose 6 day event in Oregon.

NoBrakes and Kazane present The Keirin

If you're in Atlanta on May 8th and 9th, or anywhere even remotely nearby, then you need to get yourself over to Dick Lane Velodrome to watch/race in The Keirin, a series of keirin races presented by NoBrakes and Kazane. It's part of The Need for Speed event, which looks like it'll be a great weekend of racing. More details here.