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.
One of the pioneers of our sport, Tom Mosher, is officially posting videos again!! The weather in Canada is finally getting to not freezing temperatures so Tom got out one night to get some tricks and a bike check in on his new camera. This is amazing to see in the year 2025. His bike is a living piece of history (and super janky lol someone get this man a bike) and his tricks seem like they haven’t lost a step. I hope Tom keeps putting more stuff out cause this was an unexpected treat!
2025 park shmix with a real camera featuring most of the local squad casually filmed over the last few years!
Squad includes: Marco Marquez, Johnathan Ball, Corey San Agustin, Matt Spencer, Chase Henley, Max Vargas, Kareem Shehab, Deacon Wong, Lucas Petruzzelli, Jonathan Thompson, Jacob Santos, and Kris Sundet!
Ben from England coming through with this cool edit from some recent sessions and events. I really like the diversity of the UK scene. Tons of styles, bikes, and big characters. England riders are really starting to establish their own lane and I hope it continues to grow because historically it’s had a really hot and cold scene. Hopefully this series continues!
Love that Chris is putting some clips together the long way. He’s really been putting together some next level combos for Resist lately, love to see it.
I’ve been riding this exact frame for nearly 3 years now. It’s technically the 2nd Master Courttek prototype and even has a special engraving on the bottom bracket with my name on it, which the production versions didn’t have. It’s time to say goodbye though.
My good friend Paul and I shot some final pics of the bike to commemorate it and put it to rest properly. I’m not usually that sentimental about my own bikes, but I’ve become really close with this one for probably obvious reasons. I never thought I’d have my name on a frame and I’m still blown away by the amount of people that wanted to buy a frame that had my name on it. Seriously big thank you to everyone who snagged one.
Why are we saying goodbye to it though? All that i’ll say for now is that it’s not because the frame is broken. RIP Courttek build, you served me very very well!
Full gallery and bike check after the jump.
Love me a day edit! The Onstag3 boys Jaewoo and Hyosuk (my recent favorite 700c duo) just dropped this fresh Seoul day edit where they ride a new spot that basically looks like a mini skatepark. Hyosuk’s barspins are looking super clean and Jaewoo is just really becoming one of my favorite riders. Killer stuff here.
Suck My Cog 