Well this is the story about me and mister Gary Fisher. When I started as a bike messenger I knew the ‘brand’ Gary Fisher, of course everybody did. But I was not so much into mountain biking so I never bought one.
Then in 1998 I met him for the first time during the CMWC in Washington DC. And damn that was cool, one of the great names of mountain biking comes and visits ‘our’ championship and I spoke him briefly. A couple of years later in 2005, I’m at the CMWC in New York. And who is there also Gary Fisher. This time we spoke a bit longer. And damn he is a friendly guy!

Here is a photo I shot with my (crappy) phone camera of him and my good friend Vincent.

The next day all the messengers met each other in some bar downtown NY. So we where there with at least a hundred of us. And I had to take a piss. So when I went to the toilet I see Gary sitting at the bar. On my way back I try to ignore him cause I don’t want to be the ‘groupie’ kind of guy. But he recognizes me (maybe because of the dreads) and says; “I don’t remember your name but it begins with a T and ends with a D. Do you want to drink a beer from me”. I was surprised but all of you who know me, I love a beer. So we drunk a couple of beers together. And later on Vincent also joined us. We had a great conversation about bikes and all the messenger shit.
And from then on I knew I had to buy a Gary Fisher bike. Now after all those years it finally happened, I bought one. Although it’s technically a Trek (Gary Fisher collection) I still think (and speak about it) as a original Fisher bike.
But we wouldn’t be FUCCIT if we didn’t do something with it. We started riding track bikes as one of the first guys here in Holland. It was in 1998 I believe. And now you see them everywhere. We started the whole bike polo shit here in Holland and it’s taking off. We are too old for doing tricks so Vincent and I came to the conclusion that fixed gear mountain biking will be the next big thing. And of course completely brakeless.
So the first thing I did to my brand new bike was to get rid of all the unnecessary parts (read brakes) and bought a bolt-on cog so I could ride fixed.

Well that’s the story here is the bike, let me introduce to you the Trek Gary Fisher Marlin 29er fixed gear  :D

And to Gary, if you read this. The bike rides GREAT!

ps. And no list of parts cause I hate those lists. I ride and it rides damn good.

I had a lovely time in Paris this weekend!
Will post (sponsor free) pics and edits asap on my own blog and a few here at FUCCIT.

Thanks to Selle Royal Origins for making this trip possible!

The guys from Veloblitz in a great anti-aids commercial!

Via @jorrits

So this evening Vincent and myself went on a bike ride on our fixed gear mountain bikes to Apeldoorn. To see THE mister Eddy Merckx and to be present at the opening of the Track World Championship 2011. We missed THE Eddy by 10 seconds otherwise we would definitely shook hands. But at least we saw some derny races which were cool.
To bad we had to go and also missed the mini concert of the top artist here in Holland, Jeroen van der Boom.
Just fuccing with you, we where scared when he started to sing and left the building in a hurry!

But here is a little clip I made of one of the races.

You know how we love to say Fuccit and mostly try to write things other blogs don’t. I received mail from Bernd Wagner on my Haute Blog asking if I could keep te memory alive on Walter Rütt. Only strange thing about the link in his mail is that I don’t get to see the impressive riding of a young man but a video on how the Rütt-Velodrome was burnt down to the ground. Sad but true story.

You all scream for Bikeporn, so I got you some of both. And don’t you just love the Schwinn Traveler in this oldskool story. No worries for de buitenlandse kijkertjes: no lyrics, just fancy music. Wonder though of this will make it more SFW.

This is to good not to post although Prolly already posted it. And we don’t like to repost that shit (sometimes we are even faster then he is with our post so that doesn’t count). But this one I like cause it’s all about fixed gear mountain biking.

Kyle shreds the Jedi trail at Hulda Crooks on his Volume Thrasher fixed gear bike.

And here we got the first ‘in-race’ video of the Monster Track alleycat.