According to weer.nl the weather is going to be fine on Sunday March 21st! Some of the Fuccit members are joining the AMS-RBX-PRS ride and a lot of the other riders need the training too. So for those who need the training, and for those who like to join us, I’m planning a 75-100km ride through Germany and the Posbank.
I know some people are coming from other cities, so we’re meeting at the Arnhem trainstation. Interested? React here or on the Facebook group!
Prolly has been so kind to spend some space on his blog to the ever growing Amsterdam – Roubaix – Paris ride!
It’s getting bigger and bigger!
Read here.
Don’t expect too much of it, but we got a blog now as well. You can find it in the “links” section of Fuccit, or you can click right here.
Most of the news and discussions will be on our Facebook group, but I’ll try to post most of the news on our blog as well.
We got 19 riders now, and we were thinking about closing the list around 20 riders, so if you want to join us, be quick!
We’ll be riding to Roubaix on April 11th, so we can watch the finish of the Paris – Roubaix race in the velodrome, so if that isn’t another reason to join us, I don’t know it anymore!
You can continue following us on Facebook in the Amsterdam – Paris, a Fixed Gear Adventure group.
The list of riders is growing and growing!
Keng – Amsterdam
Votske – Arnhem
Skitch – Arnhem
Hans – Den Bosch
Gijs – Amsterdam
Jeroen – Amsterdam
Jorrit – Rotterdam
Lot – Rotterdam
Thomas – Utrecht
Pieter Aart – Utrecht
Cavin – Amsterdam
Kamaal – Amsterdam
Sammy – Amsterdam
Nick – Amsterdam
Guus – Den Bosch
If you still want to join us, be quick, ’cause we’re thinking about closing the registration at 20 riders!
In spring 2010 a group of “young” fixed gear riders will ride their bikes from Amsterdam to Paris. During this 5 day trip, they’ll session street spots along the way, taste the local culture (beer or wine) and try to have as much fun as possible!
A film and photo crew will follow them during their adventures to capture all the mayhem this group of enthousiastics will bring to the city of love!
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Finally an article that’s not about how dangerous and reckless riding a fixie is, like almost every article here in Holland.
If it’s not fixed, it’s broke, by Mary Buckheit:
There’s a new fix-ture of urban living.
Just as bulky SUVs and expensive luxury vehicles have lost their cool with the kids in the city, so too have mega mountain bikes with tiers of teeth, and carbon-fiber, gazillion-geared, Tour-de-Finance roadsters.Stand on any street corner and you’re bound to spot a sporty and simple breed of speed. They’re everywhere — sewing through New York traffic, circling the squares of Boston, flying down San Francisco hills and hanging from the hooks of Portland’s public transport.
Though fixed-gear bicycles have been experiencing an urbanite riding renaissance for the past decade, they’ve been around for centuries and obviously preceded their multispeed brethren. (The first Tour de France was staged in 1903. Roger Lapebie, who won the Tour in 1937, was the first to win it on a geared bike. You do the math.)
Henri Desgrange, the originator of the Tour de France, and tyrannical cycling purist, is known to have denounced multispeed bikes, saying, “I still feel that the variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. As for me, give me a fixed-gear!”
The article is a lot longer, and you can read it right here. Don’t be scared, it’s a good read!
Leilow seems to be a Hawaiian clothing company doing something with the Aloha Fixed Gear crew, I couldn’t be bothered to read more about them, but you can do so at Hypebeast…
Like most of you might know, Iron Aden is a professional photographer and he’s doing a fixed gear themed portret serie. Today I was the first to get in front of the camara, but he’s looking for way more riders to do the same. Here’s his “advert”:
Hello Mensen…
Omdat ik nu Studio mogelijkheden heb wil ik graag een serie Portretten maken over Fixedgear, Polo en altijd de harde werkende fietskoeries. Hier heb ik JOU bij Nodig!!!
Voorbeelden zijn www.roxyerickson.com (bikes and ally cats) alleen ik ga mijn eigen draai daaraan geven.
Lijkt dat je wat en wil jezelf goede foto’s hebben reageer dan even.
stuur maar door naar alle Mess en Faks die je kent;)
Aden-Jonathan Zijp
http://www.flickr.com/photos/aden-jonathanz/3118240032/
More pics after the read more thingie..
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