I found our Natooke bike and juggling shop listed on various Chinese websites. I will just a few here.
1688.com website
ieen.com fashion site
jxnews.com fashion site
5173china.cn where to tour site
szxf.net where to buy site
Archive for the ‘Fixed Gear’ Category
Natooke Shop listed on many Chinese Websites
Mittwoch, September 30th, 2009Wuyang Old Style Bike Conversion
Dienstag, September 29th, 2009And this is how the Chinese old style bike with the double top tube looks like with the newly laced Natooke wheel sets with extra deep rims and fixed gear hubs:
Thanks for the picture Philipp 🙂
Natooke on travel.sina.com
Montag, September 14th, 2009I found an entry about our Natooke Juggling and bicycle shop on on the travel website of sina.com. What a surprise to be mentioned here as a special store on the cool Wudaoying hutong street in the center of Beijing.
北京最时髦的街巷淘宝完全攻略(组图)
http://travel.sina.com.cn 2009年09月14日10:52 精品购物指南
Natooke死飞自行车商店
Add：东城区五道营胡同甲19号；
这是五道营胡同里最有意思的一家商店了，由来自法国的伊泉经营，专门售卖“死飞”自行车的零件，所以你可以在这里DIY出心仪的个性“死飞自行车”。“死飞自行车”的英文为：“FIXED GEAR BIKE”，是一种在北京刚刚开始流行的街头运动，需要用脚力、腿力来控制单车的加速或刹车，还可以做很多花样技巧例如倒轮骑、漂移等。老板伊泉虽然是女孩子，却是资深死飞党，玩这项运动已经20多年的历史了，如果你想了解酷帅的“死飞”，可以来找她。
Fashion Weekly about Ines and Natooke
Mittwoch, September 9th, 2009There was an article about me and my Natooke shop in the Fashion Weekly magazine. The claim I am from France which is wrong as I am German.
踏寻北京时髦10街巷
告诉你：
“如果你还是一个新手，玩儿死飞自行车（FIXED GEAR）时一定要注意控制时速。”
姓名：伊泉 (Ines Brunn)
身份：Natooke店老板，资深死飞党
出没场所：五道营胡同，Natooke死飞自行车商店，详见3P
依泉来自法国，是一个倍儿精神的人，酷爱“死飞自行车”运动的她能讲一口流利的中文。作为玩儿“死飞”20多年的资深人士，她如今在五道营胡同开起来自己的小店，经营死飞自行车的原配件，包括：车轴、轮子、把手等，你可以在她这里DIY出个性“死飞”自行车。在将来，依泉打算办一些培训，帮助“ 死飞”运动在北京的发展。
Friedrichshafen Euro Bike
Samstag, September 5th, 2009The weather was wonderful in Friedrichshafen. I could see the mountains of Switzerland from the couch where I was staying.
Today the bicycle trade show was really crowded as it was also open to teh public. But I still enjoyed meeting some of my old and new bike friends from around the world.
Afterwards I took the train to my parents place. That was a long and exhausting day.
Euro Bike Exhibition
Freitag, September 4th, 2009I flew to Germany for some holiday and also to have a look at the European bicycle industry trade show in Friedrichshafen. The Euro Bike exhibition was quite big. A huge majority of the bikes were mountain or trekking bicycles. But I did find some nice track bikes. Like some traditional Italian style, like this beautiful one from Olmo:
Or newer designs like from Viva:
There was also a used bike polo bike displayed by the German Fixie company:
I made a webalbum with more pictures of nice track bikes. Also Cinelli had some beautiful steel frames on their booth:
It was also great to meet some old and new friends. And I was astonished that it is possible to do CouchSurfing in Friedrichshafen which is such a small city at the border of Germany.
Bike Picture
Mittwoch, September 2nd, 2009Here is a picture I took of my white fixed gear trick bike.
Presents from Tomita Toshihiko
Sonntag, August 30th, 2009Wow, what a great surprise!!! The delivery service knocked on the door having a package for me. From Japan? It was from my friend the Keirin track bike racer Tomita Toshihiko. Last year he had designed a Senjafuda (千社札, literally “thousand shrine tags”) for me but I was not expecting to receive so many wonderful things regarding fixed gear as well as many Senjafuda stickers.
Such an honor to receive this from the Keirin Ambassador Tomity. Special stamps, special spoke cards, the cute Keirinman Magnets (now I have a complete set 🙂 ). And it also included this beautiful Shimano Dura-Ace NJS stamped cog with engravings: „to Ines Brunn“ and „from Tomity“:
as well as this Keirin bike chain bracelet made from recycled NJS chain also with engravings:
THANK YOU SO MUCH TOMITY-SAN! I love the statements: „Bike is peaceful“ „Life is beautiful“ „Bike is heartful“ „Ride safe“
And I like the coincidences in life: We had already planned to go to the nice quiet Japanese cafe/bar/restaurant for a relaxing lunch with free softdrink refills on the 35th floor.
Beijing Fixed Gear Get Together
Dienstag, August 25th, 2009Our Beijing Fixed Gear group is growing. Every week we have someone new – either as a visitor or as a resident. Today we had a new fixed gear rider from Japan who now lives in Beijing. It was his first time to ride his nice Japanese fixie in Beijing’s messy streets at night. We went to the Worker’s Stadium to play around even though there was something going on and there were buses parked everywhere. It was probably some preparation event for the upcoming 60th anniversary of China. But we still found a spot to hang out.
JMing and the Mess guys did some photo shoot for new cool Adidas shoes. And as fixed gear bikes are cool they took the pictures of the guys on their bikes.
Natooke Fixed Gear Bikes
Sonntag, August 23rd, 2009The Beijing Natooke shop has some fixed gear bikes that belong to it. This is my small pink bike that is using an old vintage Cinelli junior track frame. The front wheel is smaller so it can bar spin. It is great for doing tricks.
This is my commuting and long distance blue fixed gear bike. It is a Corima Track frame. It has a front brake to ensure my safety in messy city riding.
This is my 100% refurbished old Tianjin Flying Pigeon single speed bike that I converted to fixed gear. Unfortunately the fork width was more narrow than the hub I wanted to use. So it does not ride so nicely free handed. But it is great for riding in rainy weather as it has fenders.
This is Fede’s fixed gear conversion. He also took a Chinese Flying Pigeon. But his was a 28 inch one and he removed everything unnecessary. So it has the minimalistic fixed gear style. I think this is the cheapest fixed gear bike ever made in the world.
And here is the Natooke shop tall bike. It is made from two old Chinese bikes, one a 28 inch male and the one on top a 24 inch female bike. We were thinking of having it fixed gear but we thought for riding in the daily traffic it might be better to be freewheel. But it is colored in the Natooke colors and amazes every Chinese person.
