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I’ve been riding a fixed gear bicycle daily to work (10 mile commute round-trip) for over a year now. I love riding fixed gear. I wrote several articles about my experiences building my own fixie on this blog. Something I learned how to do pretty recently was to do a track stand. [...]

I finished my bicycle a few days ago, and have been riding it an tweaking it since. The Shimano UN-53 works fine on the Italian frame and crankset fits perfectly. For the moment I’ve mounted my old, standard road pedals – I’ll put on the SPD pedals once I am more used to [...]

I completed my fixie such that I could ride it around three days ago, more on that soon. In this entry, I want to share two extremely useful bicycle maintenance techniques I learned about during the past couple of days.

1) Change tires and tube easily – without tire levers

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Bicycle project continues. Many of my bicycle parts have arrived – frame, bottom bracket, moustache bars, SPD pedals and shoes. 700C wheelset with flipflop hub should arrive today. Last night I went to American Cyclery on my way home from work and purchased a Sugino RD crankset (165mm), tires, tubes, a cheap [...]

After being outbid on various frames a few times on eBay, I finally won a very nice bicycle frame for my fixie project. Its a 34 year old Atala Campagnolo with very nice chrome lugs. It doesn’t have any down tube shifter bosses. This means it will be a particularly clean looking [...]