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!

Damn last year I was complaining about the lack of halloween alleycats here in Holland. So I organized one myself. And that was a great success! And now there are two of them on friday you can go to Rotterdam.

And then on saturday you can go to Amsterdam.

And all I have to say is FUCCIT!
I’m going to Berlin!

17th Halloween Alley Cat Race – 31.10.2009 – Start 21:00

Registration at Keirin or online until 30.10.2009. Mail to info@keirinberlin.de

Apparently two of my favorite girls won something during the CMWC. Looks like JoJo won the main race. And my other favorite Kym won something (or second/third place).

So congratulations to JoJo and Kym and some huge kisses from me, XXX

JoJo

Kym

These fakengers don’t only use the courier creditz in traffic, we organise the urban bikepolo tournament at this year’s Open Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships too!

Read more on all updates and changes

Katerig, this might be the best word to describe the feeling I have about next weekend. Last weekend we had alleycat, party, polo. Which was a bit much but nevertheless great. But it wore me out and tomorrow it’ll be over with the fakenger times. A time trial race for couriers through all beautifull uphill parts of Utrecht. Pfoei, that’s going to be one helluva mean race going up those 5 canalbridges, hahahahahaaaaaa. Will Meneer Eddie keep up his appearance or will his face rip off?

After Votske’s “little” weekend-event you thought it couldn’t get any worse, didn’t ya? Well, you’re right. It only gets better. During the Open Dutch Cycle Messenger Championships in Groningen on the 22nd of august, Fuccit will be in charge of the Urban Bicycle Polo Tournament. Perhaps the most important side event for people on fixed gears and non-couriers. Preliminaries are held right before and right after the mainrace and sprints so we’ll be on a really tight schedule. But before we get to the actual bikepolo playin we are in need of some teams to play with us. There are already three (correction: 7) teams on the list and only 12 can enter the competition so hurry up and let’s see who’s got the most playfull balls of them all.

To the Russian television!
My mom and dad are so proud.

And thanks Mo for the link!

So the “24 hour race” is over and I just deleted the extra page I made for it. But because we don’t wanted to get all of the blogging to get lost I made a normal post with all the info from that page.
And at I just wanted to say thanks to Arthur, Niek and the “volgauto” for all the in course info they phoned me. Even when they just said; “where standing in the middle of nowhere and there is a guy with a flat tire”. I want to thank Vincent for helping me blogging. And at last I wanna say that it was a lot of fun doing it. And seeing the stats of our site it was really appreciated by your readers so thanks to you all!

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So they are gonna start within the next hour. And I wanted to show those who never heard about the 24 hour race the route all competitors have to do.

Did I already mention they are insane in the head

And again check the live results here!

• A: Heerlen
• B: Maastricht
• C: Eindhoven
• D: Arnhem
• E: Enschede
• F: Zwolle
• G: Groningen

So tomorrow is the start of the biggest, hardest, longest and most fucced up couriers race in the world! And for the sixth time already. Most times I was standing at the checkpoint handing out beers that almost none took so I had to drink them. Last year I tried it myself together with Vincent and made it to Arnhem (300 km). Now I can say for sure that everyone who is trying to finish is fucced up insane in de head!

One of the best things every year was that you could follow the race online. Every checkpoint would put the time of every racer online so you could see who was leading and who quid. And also for mom, dad and grandmother who could see how their relative is doing.
But yesterday I heard that the DMA couldn’t do this anymore. Why don’t ask me. So the organizers came to ask FUCCIT to help them to arrange a webpage where everyone can check the standings of the 24 hour race. So it cost me some programming but I’m proud that they asked me. And here is the webpage where you can check the results in realtime!

Check here the topic about the 24 hour race (Dutch).

Let the race begin!