1626 Magazine Interview with HKFGG.
when are there ever 8-page stories on girls who ride fixed??! and why are HK magazines generally hella better than english magazines??!
my chinese reading skill/speed: soooo slow
maybe i should spend some time in HK…
late alert, but yeah, any SD peepz not gonna be up too late tonight:
Bayshore Bike Ride tomorrow, sat. 18th may. meet up at 9am at the basketball courts at the embarcadero. ride to coronado and back (or take the ferry back to downtown). totally flat route. with mostly fixie dudes, medium-fast paced (until the headwind hits, probably), a good “training ride” without hills.
might be every saturday hereafter, check back at AWLF.
so i’m looking at pics of cathy liu and her bike again (like the one i posted earlier), and i keep thinking, Her chainring looks kinda big. or is it just me or the photo perspective..?
and yes, her specs: Pink Sugino Zen 48T
THAT’s what I need!! but not in pink.
so i look up on ebay and omg wtfeezy a sugino chainring/crankset costs about or almost as much as a complete used vintage bike!
that’s what I want on my new yet-to-be-built fixie.
and then her rear cog is 19t, so I guess that’s the right ratio to go? 48:19?
my current fixie is 46t (i think) and 15t.
but since i’ve been riding my road bike—with 52 or 53t big chainring—the past month or two, when i switch back to my fixie it’s gonna feel so frustratingly slow!
so that’s why i want a bigger chainring.
Mag Siu and her Cinelli Supercorsa.
HKFGG—hong kong fixed gear girl.
東涌 Ride (Part2). hk fixed gear girl Ball Ball aka Cathy Liu and her Peloton NJS.
Fixielicious—Hong Kong Fixed Gear Girl. via FFGT
why do these female fixed gear groups seem so much stronger in asia?? is it just the blogs or do american girls really like to stick to citybikes and/or partly because they’re intimidated by the fixie guys who mash through traffic?
either way, even fixed gear girls are hella cycle chic. speed + style.
a block away from my place in downtown oakland, some guy walking his dog yells (at me?) “GET A FIXIE!!”
wtf??! as if the car vs bike “war” debate isn’t enough, road bike vs fixie??!!
and I HAVE a fixie, thank you very much. I’m just waiting on a new 650c tire so I can ride it again. and just because I have a fixie doesn’t mean I go around telling random ppl I know nothing about to get one.
reminds of one time in san diego I was riding my (road) bike a block away from my internship offices, and this kid on a vintage road bike-to-fixie conversion with the brake lines cut but still lazily on the bike shouts out “RIDE FIXED!” when he saw me.
wtf is this pretentious fixed gear > road bike nonsense??! and these people that yelled at me didn’t even look like hipsters, either! I bet they can’t even ride the highest gear (52 or 53 chainring) on my road bike, which I ride all the time except for on actual hills.
as long as people are riding, RESPECT. no matter if they’re on a road bike, mtb, fixie, citybike, folding bike, beach cruiser, whatever.
got him to try riding a fixed gear. seemed to have no problem :)
one of the employee’s bikes, a bianchi pista, @edible pedal in sacramento.
(Source: Flickr / dianneyee)
