Archive for Mai 6th, 2010

Beijing Fixed Gear Bike Ride

Donnerstag, Mai 6th, 2010

I am so happy that I had time for a fixed gear bike ride tonight. Because it is seldom that I can just leave the shop at 7:30pm. What a great feeling to ride with the group.

Beijing fixed gear ride

Beijing fixie riders

The route we took was really easy and with not too much traffic. It is nice to ride along the Changan Boulevard towards the West and then along the second ring road over to the Place (Dongdaqiao Lu). Anthony mapped out that route:

Fixed gear ride map

Riding on Changan Boulevard

I am happy to see Chinese girls become regulars on these rides.

Chinese Fixie Girls

We had again some new people that just started riding, so we stopped at the Fuxingmen rainbow to wait for the others.

Beijing fixed at Fuxingmen rainbow

I took some more pictures and uploaded them to a webalbum.

Riding at night in Beijing on Fixed Gear Bicycles

Fixed Gear Bikes at the Place

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Road Bike Conversion

Donnerstag, Mai 6th, 2010

Elaine came back from the USA and brought back the steel road bike of her best friend. She was so excited to start to convert her bicycle to fixed gear. Of course that means stripping everything off the bike.

Road bike for conversion to fixed gear

After a while Elaine had the blank frame and was still really happy.

Elaine with her road bike frame

But then the problems started. For example with the bottom bracket. Elaine’s mood slowly dampened.

During the day other fixed gear riders came to the shop. For example one Chinese guy that just bought this hand built beautiful Nagasawa frame from Japan and then unfortunately had a crash crushing the tubes near the head tube.

Beautiful Nagasawa Frame

We also finished a Natooke bicycle for a new Chinese fixed gear rider which is a friend of Xiao Shu.

Natooke White Modolo Track Bike

This morning I had an interview from the Chinese magazine called „Villas Life„. They are interested in bikes. Not only fixed gear but also recumbent bikes that are not so popular yet in China.

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