fat bottomed: CX magazine reviews the bombtrack hook

(via CX)
i have a confession. i want a cyclocross bike, and i want one very badly. more specifically, i've been looking into the idea of a monstercross setup- a cross bike with tires that are almost ridiculously wide for a bike with drops. since the advent of the 650b/27.5er tire, it's become easier and easier to turn ordinary cyclocross rigs into fat footprint bearing singletrack thugs. our friends over at bombtrack realize this, so they set off to make (at least for me) one of the coolest and cleanest cross setups of the bunch. we know that bombtrack makes some rad stuff, and the Hook EXT is no exception. the shit just looks proportionally correct to me, which is really hard to do with the fatty rubber to the ground.

anyway, cyclocross mag got their hands on one, and you can check out their rundown here!

jmik

because the internet made me search: Supernova bikes

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so i was looking over the results of berlin's rad race on the interwebs (because the event really looked interesting) when a particular bike caught my eye. it was almost a gulf livery orange and blue, and had logos i had never seen before; i'm a curious fellow, and i know that there's not much in the track bike world that i haven't seen so naturally i had to look them up. these guys are supernova, they make frames out in italy. the two machines they have are the atom (up on top) and the pro 2.0 (bottom) which the latter seemed like the weapon of choice. first of all, GAT DAMN THESE THINGS ARE PRETTY. the atom would be their carbon setup and the supernova pro 2.0 is made of columbus tubing (because italian, duh) and both seem like wonderfully streetable frames. i really hope to see more from these folks, because these frames look fantastic. check them out.

jmik

collaboration kings: State bicycle x The Simpsons

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here's a confession: when state bikes started, i didn't like them. this was the time where a million different "fixie" companies jumped into the ring trying to ride the wave, so me being the idiot i am, generalized a distaste towards all of them. state won me over, however. why? they started making cool shit like mountain bikes and cyclocross machines- they didn't limit themselves to a small corner of cycling and for that, i send serious props. part of the cool shit they do is collab with unlikely partners- this time it's The Simpsons. this collection is MASSIVE. we're talking about jerseys, shirts, bar tape, bottles, bikes, framesets, foot retention- you name it, they probably made it for this collection. seriously, check it out for yourself.

jmik

playing the catch up game: the video dump

hey y'all. i've been busy. but i'm here now and that's all that matters. i have a bunch of things in the works, one of which involves hitting up sea otter later next month! i'm hyped to put the most ridiculous knobbies i can find on the 29er, and bring some new stuff to BHSK. there's also the opening of a new bike park in my town next month, so once i pin down the day, you'll definitely get something on that. do i have an excuse for being absent? yeah it's been fucking raining and i cant ride my fantastically new road bike (and you'll hear about this road bike one day). in the mean time i'm here playing catch up.


FWDSET: Movement from FWDSET on Vimeo.

kirk's stuff pops up on my facebook all the time and this video basically kicked my ass into logging in to post stuff to BHSK. if you dont know kirk, he's the brain behind FWDSET. the guy has been mobbing the streets of los angeles for a while now, and he fucking knows his way around a bicycle. you can get the inspiration notes over here at FWDSET.



MASH X SCVDO from MASH TRANSIT PRODUCTIONS on Vimeo.

i have been to or through san francisco probably 5 or 6 times this month. every time i roll through the city i see these iconic streets what pretty much got me into wanting to hit up hills on bikes that aren't made for hills. so when i see these fixie kids roll through my shop thinking they're bad with their purefixes and aventons, i get kind of preachy and start talking about MASH (because apparently be becoming an old man that drones off with the "back in my day..." spiel). then they proceed to be puzzled at my references, ask to use the pump and roll away. some of them come back, however raving and ranting about MASH,  and immediately agree with me saying their bikes are shit. but i'm digressing- chas got together with vito and stephano of SCVDO and gave the guys a tour of the city. if you're getting a tour from chas, you better have some fucking legs. or esspresso.


BOMBTRACK AT RAD RACE'S "LAST MAN STANDING 2017", BERLIN from Bombtrack Bicycle Co. on Vimeo.

OKAY, WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THE IDEA TO TRACK BIKES ON A GO KART TRACK AS A BOOTLEG MINI CRITERIUM IS A FUCKING GENIUS AND DESERVES AN AWARD. this looks fun as hell and madly dangerous. this reminds me, i should email bombtrack and see how they're doing. if theyre making events like this happen, id assume theyre doing pretty well.

jmik