Late at night in Brooklyn’s Prospect park you might have spied a group of spandex clad bikers discussing tactics for such events as a team time trial or match sprints. These events normally occur on a velodrome like the famous one in Kissena Queens, where competitors battle it out on brakeless track bikes in a [...]
Many websites, video collectives and blogs are at the forefront of the free style fixed gear craze. One of those is Zlogblog out of Seattle.
Here is my interview with creator, Zach Hoffner.
Name, age and where you live (ride)
Zach Hoffner, 23, Capitol Hill Seattle, Washington
What bikes do you own?
My main bike is [...]
I know It’s sad, two of my childhood stars have passed on. Michael I really loved watching your dance moves. They were like no other. You dazzled me as a kid until you got all weird and reclusive and white. Farah, you weren’t my favorite angel but a friend of mine had your poster [...]
Here is my bike blogger profile of the week.
Today we go to Boston, which will be hosting the North American Cycle Courier Championships also known as the NACCC.
Dan Pugatch is not your typical bike messenger in Beantown. Find out why in this Q and A.
Name, Age, where you live?
Dan Pugatch, 28 and [...]
John has been an institution in the world of cycling here in NYC for decades. He is currently the director of the Kissena velodrome out in Queens. He has been a prolific force in keeping NYC’s only cycle track open and running, offering track racing experience to the young and old. He [...]
In my on going series of the bike bloggers of the world we focus our attention on Barcelona Spain.
Here we meet:
Cristian Marin Santos and Jordi “Santa” Tamayo
This picture makes me want to play some Zarathustra from 2001, because these guys are getting enlightened and passing on their love of the fixed gear with the [...]
Here is the latest installment of my Bike Blogger Q and A series. I got the distinct pleasure of getting some questions answered from one of my favorite bloggers, Stevil Kinevil of: SWOBO’s “How to avoid the bummer life.”
Check it out:
Name, Age and where you reside?
Stevil Michael Kinevil, 38, mid to Northern coast [...]
So for our bike blogger of the week we feature:
Andrew “Dancakes” Stevens of ATXFixed.blogspot.com
This originally started as a Monster Track profile for an out-of-towner, but Andrew wasn’t able to make it to race.
But he has been kind to share his thoughts with me about the scene going on in Texas.
The interview:
Name:
Andrew [...]
In the second installment of my bike blogger “old school zine style” interview (where I send people questions) we travel to London and meet Bill Chidley, otherwise known as Buffalo Bill.
(image from original printed zine back in 1991)
Bill’s has been writing the Moving Target Zine blog for years, long before it was the [...]