MASTER BIKE CO HIGHTEK FRAMES AVAILABLE NOW !!

Awesome news to see on a shitty Monday morning. The long awaited Master Bike Co. frames are finally available for purchase in Matte Black, Sparkle White, Fluorescent Yellow, Trans Blue, Bubblegum Pink, and Jimmy Watcha’s pro model with decals designed by none other than Gus Molina. Master Bike Co. is 100% rider owned, so if you’re in the market for a new frame this should be one of your first choices. These have been tested for over 2 years now and have proven worthy of the best in the game like Jimmy Watcha, Gus Molina, Ramon Antonio, and Kareem Shehab.

Here’s what Master has to say about the frames:

The Master HighTek frame is the culmination of over 2 years of dedicated prototyping and testing by some of the best riders in the world.

This frame is made from 4130 heat treated chromoly and features an integrated headtube drilled for gyro tabs, gusseted top tube and down tube, Mid BB shell, butted seattube, removable U-brake mounts, and yoke style bb cluster for maximum chainring and tire clearance. The Master Hightek frame has the shortest FGFS wheelbase with full barspin clearance.

SPECS:

75.5 HTA

72.5 STA

26″ Wheelsize

14mm Dropouts

Designed for 408 A-C Fork

Freewheel compatible – Includes necessary hardware to run BMX hubs

MASTER HIGHTEK FRAME PROMO

Master making waves with this new 9 minute masterpiece of a team edit featuring Jimmy Watcha, Ramon Antonio, Gus Molina, and Kareem Shehab. This promo is exciting from start to finish and is a perfect way to kick off the launch of their new frames, the Hightek Frame (available in a ton of awesome colors). Watcha is a machine, Gus is a tech god, and Ramon & Kareem fucking send it. Watcha’s opening line and Kareem’s huge kink rail at 2:30 are personal favorites. This one will be on repeat for a while, don’t miss it.

Machete “DEAF” Micro-Drive Hub

Machete “DEAF” Micro-Drive Hub

Available in 4 Colour

• 36h low flange 6061 Al. Hub Shell
• Straight Hollow 14mm Heat Treated CRMO w/ Allen Key Insert
• Spacing: 120 mm 
• Weight: 510g (10T)
• Available in 4 Colour : Black, Gun Metar, Pink Rose & Burnt Orange

 www.machetebikes.com

BREAKBRAKE17 & Spike Parts Catalog 2012

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-BREAKBRAKE17-

BB17 Serpent 29" Frame

BB17 Charmer 26" Frame

Transfer Low Pro Track Frameset

BB17 Cobra V3 Fork

-SPIKE PART-

Spike 2 Piece Bar V2

Spike Wand Bar

Spike 14mm Female Hub

Spike Vault Micro-Drive Hub 10T

Spike Front Hub Guard

Spike Rear Hub Guard

Spike Fallout Crankset

Spike Y6 Crmo Sprocket

Spike Boom Seat-Kevlar

Spike Boom Seat

Spike Headset

Spike Mid BB Kit

Spike CNC Lockring

Spike CNC Cog

-BB17 X WRAHW LIMITED EDITION T-Shirt-

By Torey Thornton

www.breakbrake17.com

Breakbrake17 Serpent 29" Frame

BreakBrake17 Serpent 29" Frame

Specification 

Material : 4130 Chromoly-Rear Triangle Heat Treated
Head Tube : Integrated 45/45 Campy (BMX)
Seat Tube Length : 430mm
Top Tube Length : 580mm
Chain Stay : 402mm
Seat post : 27.2mm
BB Style : 73mm MID BB
Standover Height : 32”
Tire Clearance : 29x2.2
Dropouts : 14mm axle
Color : Matt Army Green, Raw Finish
Negative BB Drop

www.breakbrake17.com

Seriously, What's Up with Fixed-Gear Freestyle?

          Teenagers and freestyling youngsters have taken to the fixed-gear biking scene. An increasing number of young people in urban areas around the United States now roll on bikes that not long ago were only pedaled by messengers or seen under racers on a velodrome track. Further, the “watch me!” generation, helmet cams always on, has produced thousands of YouTube videos to show off tricks performed on track bikes heretofore only possible on a skateboard or a BMX bike equipped with pegs.

Capturing the moment of a fixed-gear trick

          Mea culpa: We at GearJunkie take pride in staying on the cutting edge, delivering scoops on new gear, and writing on trends before they hit the mainstream view. But… sometimes we miss the boat altogether, as is the case (we recently discovered) with this activity, called fixed-gear freestyle, or just FGFS. Basically, FGFS means doing tricks on a fixed-gear bike, often a pared-down, BMX-like model but with 26-inch wheels and no brakes. The original idea, sparked off more than five years ago, was that “riding a [fixed-gear] track bike is crazy hard, so anything you did on it in terms of tricks was considered pretty cool.”

All-City Airwolf

         That quote comes from Jeffrey Frane, the sales and marketing manager at All-City Cycles, which sells a bike called the Airwolf (marketed as “the most modern fixed gear freestyle frame out there”) and is one of the major players on the FGFS scene. Frane said as early as 2007 people “started to see how rad they could get on a track bike, it started with skids and progressed from there.”

Busting out a FGFS move; photo credit John Watson

         In action, FGFS looks like an amalgamation of artful, choreographed track-bike riding and BMX trickery, plus with a dash of Danny MacAskill-like trials stunt work thrown in. The tricks are intricate and slow, with bar spins, grinds, small air, and backwards riding. It’s not spectator friendly, and in fact it appears pretty contrived when compared to the fast-rolling action of, say, skateboarding or an urban freeride session.

           “BMX’ers as a whole typically hate it,” Frane said, himself admitting that FGFS is “inherently kind of dumb.” He continued, “BMX bikes are way better for tricks, but the thing about FGFS is that it’s really fun and challenging, and the bikes are way sweet to just bomb around town on and use for transportation.”

Track skids! A big part of the FGFS scene

           A young generation of tricksters have taken to FGFS, and we here at GearJunkie are all for getting outside in the city and pushing limits or just plain having fun. Is FGFS here to stay? In the bike world, there’s a fair bit of backlash about the activity. (See “Does Fixed Gear Freestyle Suck,” a post on TheFootDown, for one example.) And even Frane concludes that other than the practical nature of these bikes as transportation “there’s just no reason to do tricks on a fixed-gear other than the fact that you enjoy it.”
Enjoyment? No matter the weird looks you might get, honestly, that’s reason enough right there.
—Stephen Regenold is editor of GearJunkie.com. Connect with Regenold at Facebook.com/TheGearJunkie or on Twitter via @TheGearJunkie.

BMX or FGFS, hard to tell at times

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Makassar FG Championship 2012

MAKASSAR FIXED GEAR

CHAMPIONSHIP 2012

6 - 8 July

Lapangan Karebosi

Makassar - Indonesia