I wrote a little article for Complex on how to buy a fixed-gear bike. The majority of the tips apply to bike shopping in general. Incidentally none of the Fairdale bikes are fixed but you could throw a fixed cog on the other side of the hub if you were into that kind of thing. Check out the story here.
Oh yeah, you can still win the Riot bike from Karma Loop (which is a one of kind fixed Fairdale) here.
CH4D Treanor helped us out with a little promo for the Skaterack. Gives a little insight into our intense R+D program too.
The Project Loop is a pretty amazing group that among other things is teaching kids from the local high school how to build a pump track. If only dirt jump building had been an option on my high school curriculum!
They also helped us out at the Texas Toast Jam with a lot of helpful volunteer work AND are putting together a box jump and mini ramp for the Fun Fun Fun Fest coming up this weekend. Everyone here in the office is pretty excited to do some box jumping right next to the Slayer stage.
Anyway, all this good stuff and there’s even more. Coming up in a couple weeks they are going to throw a benefit for the disastrous Bastrop fires just outside of Austin. So come out to the event for some good music, BBQ and see if high school kids really can build dirt jumps.
Perry Mervar – AFA Austin, TX 1989 from 990Adjustments on Vimeo.
I don’t feel like I get to see enough Perry Dooms these days (jumping from back pegs to grip ride). It would be even more impressive with 10 inch tall bars. Its a great run from back in the day, but check 02:19 especially.
We teamed up with Sub_Urban RIOT to create this custom 1-of-a-kind fixie/single speed valued at $1150.00. Win this bike by signing up for the contest at Karmaloop, and browsing Sub_Urban Riot’s newest collection of cut/sew basics and tees.
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I got sent some really cool Fairdale art from my buddy and legendary BMX innovator Afro Pat. Pretty stoked!
Bonus: I did a Google image search for Pat Schreader to find a picture of him and it auto corrected my search to Fat Shredder. Hmmmmm….
Fairdale is proud to announce that Vélo Champ in Tampa, Florida has ordered in a full compliment of Fairdale Parser bikes. Thanks to Vélo Champ and cruise on over there and check out some bikes.
Fairdale got a little write up over at Bicycle Retailer and we appreciate it very much! Thanks guys. I want to know why I have to get up so early for work if I’m retired.
Check out the story here.
Jim Cielencki long time BMX pro and head of Sunday Bikes (and a Fairdale rider by the way) has an interview over on ESPN about making bike frames overseas. He’s my office mate here at OTX Design (which house’s the engineering studio for Sunday Bikes, Odyssey, and of course Fairdale). I found it really informative even though I share an office with him! On my recent trip to Taiwan I was blown away by how incredibly high tech the manufacturing facilities were. It was sort of bike building heaven where it seemed like whole cities were devoted to creating bikes. …. ah… but… I am from near Detroit and with a family in the auto industry I fully understand the desire to keep manufacturing in the states. Anyway, JC’s interview has some really interesting points on building bikes and its cool to hear about all the technology that goes into a really high end BMX. Its tech we can eventually apply to Fairdale too so its good to know.
Check the story here.
NOTE: I fixed the above link so it actually goes to ESPN now… instead of back to this same post… oops.
