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  • Fixed Gear 101

    A Fixie introduction

    Puma was the first big brand to get hip to the whole fixed gear trend and to support their FG specific clothes line they put together and sponsored a team of NYC messengers and put out a Puma...

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  • Sur Place

    Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...

  • Paint it Black

    Mike Giant joins Sur Place

    With Mike Giant we have caught a delicious fish for the Sur Place menu. Giant is famous as a graffiti artist, illustrator, tattooist and partner of Rebel8 clothing. Black ink is Giant's specialty and...

  • Doortrapte iPhone apps

    Hva students create app for real life cycle fun

    A few months ago, thirty Interactive Media students from the Hva received the task to develop a prototype of an iPhone application related to our Sur Place exhibition. The aim of the app should be to...

  • Video Bas van den Broeke

    Massan SF

    Video for Leader Bike

    A great ad for Leader Bike featuring Massan . The video was shot in San Francisco by Colin and Colby of Macaframa. Massan is riding on the Leader 725TR , his color, gun metal black. (via Leader Bike...

  • Bright Bikes, Big City

    Make your bike seen with retroreflective vinyl

    As part of the Sur Place exhibition, Mediamatic will be organizing tons of salons, parties, film screenings and workshops. The first of these workshops takes place on Saturday June 12. Join us and...

  • Converting classic strada hub to fixed gear with…

    The elegant, durable and safe way to keep your back wheel when converting a road bike to fixed

    “Who wants to take Erwin’s old bicycle out of the hall before we put with the garbage?” was the message of my neighbor Maria. It turned out to be a really nice Colnago Mexico road racer from the 1980'...

  • The secrets of the fixed gear bike

    Interview with Mike Giant

    American tattoo and graffiti artist Mike Giant explains what makes riding a fixed gear bike so special.

  • Pristine expo

    More Fixed Art by Mike Giant and Saskia Haex

    Pristine Fixed Gear hosts a nice arty extension to Sur Place. Head over there for some more work by the great Mike Giant, and for wheels on canvas by the equally great Saskia Haex. You can have a...

  • Pedal to the metal

    Mastering skid stops and track stands.

    Saturday June 19th, the fabulous Keng Pereira taught a group of eager cyclists how to ride a fixed gear bike.

  • Fixed on paper

    The web is so flooded with fixed gear reads and pictures that it is hard for a newbie not to get lost. For those looking for efficient and proper enlightenment, we have some good old-fashioned...

  • Priori track bike

    Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • Claud Butler

    1957 Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • Bike manufacturers

    An overview of (fixed) frame builders

    These are the bicycle menders we look up to. We exhibit bikes of all different bike brands. On this page you can find information about specific bicycle menders. For the complete bicycle collection...

  • BLB Classic

    2010 Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • Pure Culture

    Philip Ross is an inspiring american artist that works with living organisms as means of his artistic work. In a very controlled environment, Ross manipulates, nurtures and transforms a variety of...

  • La Blésoise

    France, 1889 Collection: Otto Beaujon

  • Brooklyn Machine Works Gangsta Track

    Collection: Tokyo Fixed Gear, London

  • Red Bull Mini Drome

    Miniature track, maximum adrenaline

    How to squeeze a track into an exhibition space without skimping on speed and excitement? The spectacular Red Bull Mini Drome might be a perfect example of how to do it...

  • B.E.A.

    1960, Belgium Collection: Erik Boelen

  • RIH Pursuit

    1989 Collection: Frank van der Sman

  • Naldisney

    2008 Collection: Nalden from nalden.net

  • 'Het gaat om het gevoel dat je verkoopt'

    Interview met Aynouk Tan, modejournalist en Amsterdamse gids van het Travel project

    Journalist en mode-icoon Aynouk Tan presenteert zaterdag haar eerste geur tijdens de opening van haar Amsterdamse paviljoen op de Amsterdam Biënnale 2009. De show heeft een dubbelzinnig tintje. 'Ik...

  • Nuit Blanche Amsterdam

    Een nachtelijke ontdekkingsreis

    Stichting Vuig is een jaar geleden in het leven geroepen door Josine Neyman en Kristel Mutsters "om grote en mooie dingen te kunnen creëren". Ze wilden een groter publiek in contact brengen met...

  • Race bike

    ca. 1910 Collection: Bob Casemier

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