While in Texas I got a chance to corner Corey and force him to be in front of my camera so I could capture some pics of him and his one of a kind Ruff 29er build. This is one of the most talked about bikes in the scene, so I know I needed to get this one to the people. Full rundown after the jump!
Resist’s own Chris Alzona showing off his pearl white Volume Cutter!
For our newest episode of Off Track we’ve gathered the Fixed Gear high council to discuss one of the most pressing topics in our community: what is the actual difference between FGFS, Trick Track, and Tarck?
Featuring Off Track alumni Kareem Shehab, Tom Mosher, Mike Schmitt, and Tyler Johnson!
Lucas (aka Poney) just dropped this awesome build + ride video for a bike that I’m extremely familiar with, the Bombtrack Divide. Although the whole video is in French, I was still extremely entertained the whole way through. He got the Divide after breaking his Thrasher frame (a difficult thing to do) and builds it up in his chaotic mad scientist looking apartment, which I really enjoy seeing.
As far as Lucas’ riding goes, this is the best form of his riding so far, by far. This frame must have unlocked something in him because his riding looks 10x cleaner on this than it did with his Thrasher. Hope the frame doesn’t break on him too quickly because it’s definitely helping him progress.
The Ruff team recently took a trip to Austin to film for an upcoming full length. Here are the in betweens / warm ups on the bread cam!
First of all, today is Deacon’s birthday. Go give him some bday love on his IG.
Second of all, Deacon’s Courttek build has changed a bunch throughout his time having it. Although we’ve shot pics of it already, it’s basically a completely different build now. So we got out to a good ol’ basketball court with our buddy Josh and snapped some pics! (Full set and details after the jump)
Fixated Comp 3 is ON! Ritchie with Fixated out in the Netherlands is back for the 3rd year in a row to put on one of the biggest comps of the year on August 24th. It’s gonna be a good one, save the date! Keep up with Fixated on IG for location announcements.
Some of the worst things I’ve ever read. Today we respond to the community’s Fixie hot takes. Enjoy!
Ruff recently announced that a new Ruff bar shape is currently out in the wild being tested by the team! While still keeping a 4-piece design, they take bend inspiration from the 2012 FGFS classic Machete Slayer bars but stepping them up with modern rise. Here’s what Jacob had to say about the forthcoming bars:
“We’ve received samples of some new 4 piece bars that the team is testing. After toiling over dimensions, we settled on two shapes. The lower offering maintains the GC bar box section with a nod to the classic Machete Slayers and their mellow bends. For the taller size, we took the inspiration direct from the Bob bars and refined to our preferred back sweep, up sweep, and width.
We’ll have both sizes available in chrome finish and ED black once they get the stamp of approval from our quality assurance department.
Go catch a session with a Ruff Rider and make sure to check them out! They are rolling in LA, Salt Lake City, Seattle, Bordeaux, and Tucson.”
I’ll report that I’ve received mine and am extremely excited to put them on my bike. Pics of my setup to come!
Chase is a beast. He’s comfortable on all obstacles, which includes boosting big quarter pipes. We were riding Stanton recently (as seen in our new park shmixtape) and he was boosting this hip. I had to get a pic of it cause he was getting up there.
Suck My Cog 