Author: JBall

Fixed Gear Historian

Beautiful Bike | Ritchie Vanpelt’s Custom Ted James FGFS Build

Ritchie Vanpelt is a rider you may or may not have heard of, but this dude is crazy involved in the scene. He runs the Fixated FGFS crew in Netherlands, designs his own products (he made me a custom axle for my Bombtrack hub), knows where to get just about any product you can’t find any more, is an admin for the PS BMX site, and more! He recently got a custom bike made by Ted James, the mastermind behind 14 Bike Co and it turned out beautifully and definitely one of the most unique bikes I’ve seen in a long time.

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SlowWheelz In Downtown Los Angeles

The SlowWheelz bois Guillermo and Marcos got down in DTLA with Slumworm behind the camera to promote their new crew / brand. These two have been putting in mad work on the trick track bikes lately and the come up is real. They’ll transition to FGFS one day 😉 . Peep this one! Follow @slowwheelzcycling on IG and peep their website HERE

 

RSK | HAMMER SUNDAY

RSK from Japan just dropped a hell of a surprise for our Monday morning! This unseen footage is from 2014 – 2017 and still holds up to this day easily. RSK isn’t afraid to send it, and I believe that’s been lacking a bit in the scene as people are being more drawn towards technical flatledge tricks. Definitely refreshing to see. I’m not sure if RSK really rides anymore since he’s on the dad life train now, but we can only hope he still touches his bike every now and then. That being said, still really stoked on this footage!

SMC DISCORD LAUNCH

Ready for a new type of community? If you aren’t familiar with Discord, it’s basically a forum app but with more advanced features than your standard forum. We’re hoping to create a stronger community with the launch of this with categories to show off your build, ask about tricks, post your edits, and more! Any and all are welcome, so click HERE to join and come hang out with us!

SMC discord