After receiving numerous inquires, Volume Bikes Co., a bike manufacture, decided to release a limited number of fixed gear frames under “Volume Cutter”, not to be confused with the Schwinn Cutter. According to Volume, the frame is solid enough to handle the same abuse as their BMX frames.

Here’s the lowdown on its specifications –

Frame Sizes (cm): 50 / 53 / 56
Top Tube Lengths (inches): 19.9, 21.7 and 22.8
Chainstay Length (inches): 15.7
Head tube Angle: 74º
Seat Tube Length: 74º
Dropout thickness (mm): 4
Seatpost Dia. (mm): 27.2
Headset Type: 1-1/8″ Integrated. Compatible w/Campy 45ºX45º
B.B. Shell Width (mm): 68
B.B. Thread Type: English
Rear Hub Spacing (mm): 120
Steerer Tube Length (mm): 120, 127 and 163
Fork Rake (mm): 36
Fork Leg Length (mm): 377
Front Hub Spacing (mm): 100
Wheel Size: 700C
Material: Full 100% CR-MO
Frame Weight (lb): 5, 5.25, 5.5
Fork Weight (oz): 240
Colors: Flat Black, Cyan and Gun Metal
MSRP for frame and fork set: $350
*Head Set and B.B. not included

Aurumania, a design company with a passion for working with gold, has designed a lavishing fixed gear bike composed of all-around 24k gold platting and over 600 embedded Swarovski crystals. The 24k gold platted track bike is limited to 10 made with a price tag of Euro currency symbol 80,000. It also comes warranted for ten years, no questions asked – as if that would be the make or break point of an Euro currency symbol 80,000 sale.

No Brakes Atlanta, “Atlanta’s Track Bike Boutique”, just dropped a new t-shirt collection. If you ask me, they’re pretty wicked looking. Their new collection features an old man with a wizard looking beard and the words “No Breaks” at the bottom of him. They also have a few shirts left with an “ATL” logo on the front. There’s quite a selection of colors to choose from, including a limited number of tie-dye tee’s so check them out.

I ran across BiCi Concepts, a company out of Los Angeles, CA that offers many innovative products fixed gear relate, when I was browsing Mash SF’s links page. If you haven’t already heard, Mash SF upgraded their site and their links page was no exception. BiCi Concepts has a giant selection of creative frame pads. You’ll have to check them out yourself because there’s too many to list.

Check out the new Collection of t-shirts by Laek House. The new lineup consists of three different themes with color options.

First Shirt – features a black and white photo of a cyclist riding his bike
Second Shirt – Has a centered Laek House logon on the front
Third Shirt – includes graphics of a cyclist and the words “FAUSTO COPPI”

Sorry I don’t remember where I found this photoshoped picture of President George W. Bush with a fixed gear in his hand; but I have to share it because it’s too funny and his bike is sick.

Several mouth drooling trailers later, Macaframa Productions – a video crew out catching the life of a fixed gear rider on film – has finally made September 24, 2008 the light at the end of the tunnel for many eager fixed gear enthusiasts. The premier of there highly anticipated video will be held at the UNLV Student Union Theater in Las Vegas, NV at no cost. There will also be an opportunity to hang with the crew over BBQ, so plan early.

If you’re looking for some wood grain themed rims to dress your fixie in, check out the newest lineup of Deep V’s by Velocity. The new lineup includes two models, each differing in grain pattern. No price was mentioned, but the boys down at your local shop, whom you have to go through to get a pair anyway, will have that info for you.

Photo By Larry Dalton

According to an article written by Sena Christian in the Sacramento News & Review – a free weekly publication that covers the entertainment scene of Sacramento, Ca. – Kevin Wehr, an environmental sociology professor at C.S.U.S, continued his voyage solo after he and some friends arrived at Mexico’s cost from Mexico City by bicycle. 1,000 miles later on his $50 single-speed bike, Christian reported, Wehr ended up in Guatemala. Wehr traveled to Mexico in search of a better understanding for “the land and the people, said the author. It would also be an experience Wehr could share with his students. But Wehr’s journey down south wasn’t the only time he hopped on a bike for work.

While in graduate school, Wehr delivered packages by way of a fixed gear bike – according to the article. In his 5-years of experience as a bike-messenger, suggested Christian, the emerging subculture of folks who rode fixed for fun bewildered Wehr. His field of study and personal experience as a bike-messenger later served his desire to study this culture consisting of cyclists who in Christians words “rides a fixed-gear bike, dresses distinctively, doesn’t wear a helmet and is attracted to risk”. In 2009 his findings, Christina states, will be summed up and sold in bookstores. That’s right Wehr is writing an ethnography on the culture of the bicycle messenger. Hopefully his representation of the fixed gear culture serves true. To view the full article click here.

- Thanks Ken!

Specialized Langster Las Vegas

The Specialized Langster lineup for 2009 consists of six complete fixed gear bikes, five of which represent a different major city as its theme, and one frame set with an edge for track competition.

The Specialized Langster Las Vegas, one of the fixies that hosts a city theme, features graphics of poker chips, rolling dice, and the famous “Welcome to Las Vegas” sign on a Matt Black with a hint of Gold Specialized specific frame.

Other themes include: Japanese style graphics to represent Tokyo, the brand Specialized written in a 60’s like text and more various hippie related graphics equaling San Francisco, umbrellas and some rain for Seattle, and last but not least an over-all yellow colorway and taxi stripes for nothing less than New York.

Lastly, the plain Jane “Langster” is a not as “specialized” of a track bike in relation to theme. The rest of the specifications are identical.

Learn more and see picture of each cycle after the jump. Continue reading →