Great pic of an impression made by All City‘s Jeff’s Big Block in the snow.

John Prolly shot some really nice pictures of Tina and her All-City Dropout!

Another frame for the wish-list! (pun intended)
Although I know I’ll get a new Leader frame for free if I break my Trick Star, I must admit I really like the new to come All City Def Wish. You might have seen it on several other blogs, but I still wanted to give you my opinion.
It comes with 14 mm dropouts with spacers if you still ride wit 10 mm axles, like me…
But the best feature on this frame are the non-dimpled chain stays! As All City says it:

Bottom line: a dimpled tube just isn’t going to be as strong as a fully round tube.  With this in mind we designed around using an inside stay tire clearance dimple. The Def Wish fits a 29X2.0 tire slammed in the dropouts and without sacrificing rear end strength.

The Def Wish will be released in March for around $360. Decent price for a decent frame if you ask me…

More pics and info on the All City blog.

Updated bike check:

• Frame: Leader Trick Star v2 55cm
• Fork: Volume Fu Manchu
• Bars: Gusset Prison Bars with ODI longneck grips
• Stem: DK Alpha Stem
• Headset: FSA The Pig (10 year old NOS)
• Seatpost + Clamp: Cheap + Leader
• Seat: Pro Hawk (cheap but works fine!)
• Crank: KHE Hindenburg 2 piece 160mm
• Bottom Bracket: KHE BSA
• Sprocket: Profile Racing 30t Splined Sprocket
• Front wheel: All City track hub 32h, laced to WTB Dual Duty FR 29-er (28mm wide). Schwalbe Marathon 35c tire.
• Back wheel: All City fixed/fixed hub 32h with Surly 13t cog, laced to WTB Dual Duty FR 29-er. Schwalbe Marathon Plus 35c tire.
• Pedals: The Shadow Conspiracy Ravager plastic pedals, R.E.Load straps.
• Chain: Charge Masher

• Frame: Leader Trick Star v2 55cm
• Fork: Volume Fu Manchu
• Bars: BBB Risers with Fly Bikes grips
• Stem: Pro FRS 50mm
• Headset: FSA The Pig (10 year old NOS)
• Seatpost + Clamp: Cheap + Leader
• Seat: Pro Hawk (cheap but works fine!)
• Crank: KHE Hindenburg 2 piece 160mm
• Bottom Bracket: KHE BSA
• Sprocket: Macneill Guard 30t
• Front wheel: All City track hub 32h, laced to WTB Dual Duty FR 29-er (28mm wide). Schwalbe Marathon 35c tire.
• Back wheel: All City fixed/fixed hub 32h with Surly 13t cog, laced to WTB Dual Duty FR 29-er. Schwalbe Marathon Plus 35c tire.
• Pedals: Odyssee Twisted glow in the dark, R.E.Load straps.
• Chain: Charge Masher

Wheels were build by Jelle from Single Speed Central, I can really advice you to buy your wheels from him! They’re handbuild and I’ve seen him making mine, he builds them with extreme precision!

This amazing bike is home made by frame builder Jeff Patterack in the 70s. You can find way more pics of the detailing on the All-City blog!