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01-09-06 | 10:05 PM

onetwentyeight

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From: Oakland, CA

Add whatever I've missed. I'll revise this top post every now and then to reflect whatever people post.

Just a beginning...

General Knowledge and Useful Technical Information
Sheldon Brown's Big Happy Funtime Fixed Gear Knowledge Repository. A First Stop.
Fixed Gear Wiki (help them and add what you know)
fixedwheel.org.uk - Articles, How to's etc.
63xc Fixed Gear 101 - Riding Tips
Fixed Gear Gallery - Links, Articles, Forum, and photos of bikes from around the world.
Old Skool Track - Articles, Pictures, links, emphasis on bikes from 70's and older.
Fixed Innovations - Tips and howtos for conversions
Bicycle Safe - Tips for not getting flattened by a car
Wikipedia's entry on Fixed Gears
Fixie FAQs Wiki
Puma's Fixedgear 101 Booklet - If you buy this off eBay I have some wonderful waterfront property...
Jim Langley's site - Many interesting tips and articles tho not FG specific. Lots of history
The FiXed Gear
MacG's Gearing and skidpatch worksheet. Nice

Where to buy crap online (SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BIKE SHOP)
American Cyclery (San Francisco based)
Business Cycles (Miami)
Harris Cyclery (Mass)
Trackstar NYC (NYC)
Nashbar
World Class Cycles

Component Makers.
Campagnolo
Miche
Shimano
Mavic
Brooks Saddles
Phil Wood
Chris King

Frame Builders/Bike Manufacturers
IRO - Frames, Complete Bikes, Components
Don Walker - Bike Forums regular + Frame builder
Kogswell - Another BF regular. Doesn't build their own frames but they sell some nice ones and some other products.
Jonnhy Cycles
Vanilla Bicycles
Yamaguchi - official framebuilder of the United States Olympic Cycling Team
Spicer Cycles
Bernie Mikkelsen
Independant Fabrications
Kalavinka

Bags + Gear + Clothing
Bailey Works
Reload Bags - also have top tube coverings and other miscelania
Chrome Bags
Bagaboo Bags
Under the Weather - Bags and Clothing
Rapha - Superfancy expensive clothing + gear
Pac Designs
timbuk2

Velodromes
Kissena (NY)
Hellyer (San Jose, CA)
Alpenrose (PDX)

Tips and Tricks
How to do a cool messenger style handlebar grip
How to do cloth tape + Shellac
How to do a 2 color weave pattern on your bars
Butchering a Brooks

Last edited by onetwentyeight; 04-17-06 at 12:10 PM.

01-09-06 | 10:07 PM

dustinlikewhat

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From: Bodymore, Murderland

Bikes: Surly Instigator '02, Schwinn Traveler fixed conversion, '02 Fuji Track

I'll file myself under section 5, HELLO LADIES!!!

01-09-06 | 10:12 PM

Fantomas

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From: Portland OR

Bikes: WEEEEE!!!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by dustinlikewhat

I'll file myself under section 5, HELLO LADIES!!!

Yeah, like dustin said... Usefulbag makers

www.baileyworks.com

www.reloadbags.com (also has TT pads and other useful knick knacks.

01-09-06 | 10:34 PM

gregg

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Great thread, thanks for including the FGG.

Something else to add to Section 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed_gear

01-09-06 | 10:53 PM

ImOnCrank

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From: Eastcoast

Bikes: Cocaine the white stallion, Custom Witcomb pista, (Being restored) 80's Pogliaghi Track, (destroyed) RAP Round Breeze NJS, Cannondale Jekyll 900, 84/5 Pinarello Montello (all italian)

How bout some velodrome pages:
- Kissena in New York: https://www.kissena.info/track/track.html

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01-09-06 | 11:22 PM

BlastRadius

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From: San Bruno, CA

Bikes: Leopard DC1, Ridley X-Fire, GT Zaskar 9r

Bags:
https://www.bagaboo.hu/

Bags and clothing:
https://www.under-the-weather.ca/

Frames, Bikes, Components:
www.irocycle.com

01-09-06 | 11:25 PM

zip22

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https://www.pumaville.com/downloads/book101.pdf

01-10-06 | 12:05 AM

humancongereel

live free or die trying

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From: where i lay my head is home.

Bikes: bianchi pista workhorse, cannondale r1000, mountain bike fixed conversion

https://www.obra.org/track/

alpenrose velodrome here in pdx.

01-10-06 | 01:28 AM

gally99

cripple

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From: all up in ya grill...

neither don walker nor kogswell, both regular bikeforums posters, are on there...

01-10-06 | 10:40 AM

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gregg

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Frame builders:

Spicer Cycles - https://spicercycles.com/

01-11-06 | 05:25 PM

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Kogswell

Matthew Grimm / Flunky

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Kogswell is not a frame builder. Cyclobot, our other business, supplies frame builders with frame building components and frame building services and OEM components: wheels, headsets, seatposts, stems, etc.

We don't make the frames, we make the frames better (and help frame builders be profitable).

We also import frames and components from Taiwan under the Kogswell brand.

01-11-06 | 05:30 PM

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onetwentyeight

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From: Oakland, CA

Who makes the kogswell marked frames then?

01-11-06 | 05:32 PM

#13

46x17

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From: SF

Pacdesigns.com for another great bagmaker

01-11-06 | 06:17 PM

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Kogswell

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Quote:

Originally Posted by onetwentyeight

Who makes the Kogswell branded frames then?

We use four different frame shops and a fork shop in Taichung.

The most famous is Maxway, the same frame shop that makes IRO, Surly, some Ritchey, the Rivendell Bleriot, Jamis, On One, Urbane, etc.

01-27-06 | 01:54 PM

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From: 703

Bikes: 'Cha-ruzu Fosuta Orusan Kein' Fuji Track (2005), Schwinn Tank MTB (?), Fuji Royale (1979)

Bag:
Timbuk 2

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02-12-06 | 10:46 PM

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geog_dash

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From: Oklahoma

Bikes: Pake fixie. Klein Reve (for sale, https://www.theveer.net/gordons_klein)

Velodrome, Frisco, Texas
https://www.superdrome.com

02-12-06 | 10:46 PM

#17

wangster

MADE IN TAIWAN

Joined: Feb 2005

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From: SF

Bikes: Tarmac, Humble, Makino, Schwinn

don't forget the Park Tools site, amazing amount of info on there.

Frame builder: www.coastouttabrooklyn.com Johnny Coast.

02-12-06 | 10:52 PM

#18

schloe mo

Joined: Aug 2005

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From: Chicago

Bikes: vintage carlton track, vintage carlton tourer(fixed)

BUMP!

Velodromes (Chicago)
https://www.northbrookvelodrome.org/

02-12-06 | 11:02 PM

#19

morbot

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does IRO really qualify as a framebuilder? id say they're more in the class of "where to buy crap online"

02-12-06 | 11:57 PM

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velocipus

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From: Bezerkeley

Bikes: a lot

Ummm...
The FiXed Gear

02-21-06 | 08:00 AM

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brunop

hell's angels h/q e3st ny

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From: boston area/morningside heights manhattan

Bikes: surly steamroller, independent fabrication titanium club racer, iro jamie roy--44/16, independent fabrication steel crown jewel--47/17, surly karate. monkey (rohloff speed hub), unicycle

independent fabrications:
ifbikes.com