Candy Cranks

Yikes! Came across these on ebay, not sure I’d be in any hurry to rush out and try some. I reckon you could probably do yourself some serious mischief.

And what’s even more disturbing is the guy in ad is without a bike!

You are bidding a Coolmax Bike Cycling Pants with Soft Pad,a ideal product for your indoor or outdoor cylcing, it was made according to the human body shape with COOLMAX+SANITIGED 3D pad, Asota“SANITIGED” fungi-proofing treatment permanently make your cycling more comfortable and health! sags and crests design easy for perspiration, it make cycling more cool and dry!

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This is the 3rd week of Ramadhan, we miss having a nice long ride around Jakarta. So we ride our hub along with our fellow from Sunday Sepeda Sucks, and meet more others in Senayan, The track is Tebet-Senayan-Monas-Pasar Baru-Cikini-Tebet at least 29 Km away (18.0 mi). We start from 21.00  and having Sahur at 03.00 , going home at 04.00 o’clock at dawn.

photo: Sunday Sepeda Sucks .Doc , Woof.Doc

Last night, the Punani Pedal Club had a super wonderful epic turnout at our ride! Over 35 people showed up for an evening ride.. a record number! A few new lovely ladies and many of the AlohaFixed boys showed up to support and have a cruise ride through Waikiki and up the infamous Daimond Head hill.

A crowded sidewalk of cyclists waits for everyone to show up

Some tandem action from Joey and Jessica

Marissa and Kim, 2 new lady additions to the Punani Pedal Club with helmet safety

Naomi sampling Mike’s bike

The ladies in attendance (minus Marie)

Most of the crowd!

Cheers to everyone for this epic turnout, and special thanks to Michael Keany for the fab photos (per usual) and to Sau and Rob for promotion help. It was a great ride and a chance to meet a good majority of Honolulu cyclists. Everyone was friendly with the exception of an altercation with an angry driver, but an overall success! Yay for bikes bringing people together!

downtown airport/skyline

This past Tuesday, David J, Tylor, Bryce, and I crossed the Missouri River and headed north to the Downtown Airport. There’s a lap around the airport that’s roughly 3.7 miles. Our goal was to ride for an hour and see how far we could get.

A history lesson for those who are unfamiliar. Frank Dodd’s for the first person to ride for a conservative hour and record his distance. This was in 1876 and he rode for 16.47 miles. In 1972, Eddy Merckx set a record of 30.715 mi which stood for 12 years. The current record stands at 30.9 mi which was set in 2005 by Ondrej Sosenka.  Due to advancements in equipment and other technologies between the Merckx record and present day, the Union Cycliste International [UCI] has established to classes of records.  There’s the UCI Hour Record [which requires competitors to use the same equiment as Merckx. They can not use time trial helmets, disc or tri-spoke wheels, aerodynamic bars, or monocoque frames] and the Best Human Effort aka the UCI “Absolute” Record.

Merckx Hour Record Bike

Our hour ride went pretty okayyy for the first attempt. We probably should have rode the opposite direction, the head wind was so strong if I would have stopped peddling my bike would have come to a hault. Also, none of us drank enough water before hand. I would not recommend racing against yourself slightly dehydrated in 103 degree sunny weather.  ha! Our final results were as follows.  David J and Tylor both rode about 18.9 miles. I rode for 15-ish, I stopped with five minutes left to vomit [so shocking, I know!] Bryce gave in half-way through so his distance is unknown.  Despite the vomit, the ride was exactly what I needed. I’m convinced I could sustain on endorphins and vitamin d alone. We’ll be repeating this ride next Tuesday as well. Meet us at Broadway Cafe around 4 if you want to ride with us!

Tylor and Bryce waiting for the train on the way back to midtown.

The awesome guys at Urban Velo just put out their September issue (#21). It’s now available for online viewing here! Copies should be available in your lbs soon so go pick some up!

This issue also includes an article by John (Prolly) on the continual evolution of fixed freestyle and the 26″ movement. It’s a really interesting read so go check it out!

I meant to post this last week, but better late than never I suppose. My ESB is finally ready. Big thanks to Velocity, Profile, Shop 14, and Super Ted. The full bike check is now posted up on Zlog so go check it out here!

I’ve been running Brev M’s Drop Bars and Track Grips on my Vigorelli lately. These bars are so gorgeous and have a really classic look. The pista grips are awesome, and by far the best track grips I’ve used so far; they’re grippier and have a lot more cushion (they’re significantly more comfortable than the champ grips). Thanks, guys! Check out other great Brev M products here!

Meg made me a hella cute Candy Cranks chainring for my Vigorelli. Thanks so much girl, I love it! You can get your own here!

FIXED FEST 2010 present by ROCKET

TRICK CONTEST (Quickstop/Trackstand/Trick Battle).MASH RACE.BICYCLE ART EXHIBITION.BICYCLE FILMS.DJ’s and PARTY

Everybody was having a blast!, many people from out of town are coming to celebrate this  first Fixed Gear annual event present by Rocket, in Jakarta, Indonesia. So many prizes, nice people, good food, and the most burnin’ is the trick battle contest, I must say that Bandung riders have many great potential to be the king of trick contest cuz their showin’ their hot stuff to the surface with full of soul and very entertaining, yeah! they really got their got attitude.. salute!. Yogyakarta got their own special hardcore tricks, rough and tough. And special from Jakarta you got a very promising young star, 18 years old Bari Sony Wicksono and 19 years old Herry Patriawan. That’s it for today folks, can’t wait for the next fixed gear events. Cheers!

Saturday, 24 July 2010
@ ROCKET Concept Store, Basement Bengkel Night Park (SCBD), Jakarta, Indonesia.

Supported by : San Mig Light/ID-Fixed/Cixie/FxFw/FuFuFu/Sumvelo/SSS/Woof/Cyclonesia/Arafix/WFG/Cyclo/SouthBeachQueen/Tremorz/Velodome/TLab/SatcaSash/SoberDen

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