It's gone WAY beyond Suginos and colored Deep V's, and San Francisco is ground-zero in the States. Phil Wood started producing colored hubs at the behest of Freewheel Hayes (a really excellent shop) and the MASH collective, Nitto is doing limited runs of anodized stuff, and HED3 tri-spoke carbon wheels are in high demand. Bleeding-edge design firms are creating limited-run shoes and hats that sell for astronomical prices, and kids spend thousands of dollars (that's not hyperbole) building track bikes for the street.
The downside is that prices are a little insane right now, the upside is that once folks get over blinging out their bikes they start looking for classic (in the sense that we use it) bikes.
Old Italian and Belgian track iron are very much sought after by fixed-gear riders right now and as a result a lot of bikes that might have moldered away are being found, restored, and ridden, and ridden hard.
galen 'likes his parts silver' pewtherer san francisco, ca
On 10/6/07, wesoishi@aol.com <wesoishi@aol.com> wrote:
> So, how much does the price guide say those Campy pedals are worth? I've dealt in collectible records and CDs for a while and I've come to the conclusion that something is "worth" whatever someone else is willing to pay for it. ?
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> Anyway, one thing this current interest in track bikes and fixed gear has done, is it has gotten kids back on bikes. It's gone beyond the messenger fringe, and seems to be an all out fad. There are even a couple of stores in Los Angeles that cater to these new bicycle riders. It's an actually "cool" thing to do, with it's own style, equipment (say, Velocity DEEP dish) and lingo. I have no idea how this started, but it seems to have gotten more youngsters on bikes than anything Lemond, Armstrong or the ABLA (?) could do.
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> The point of this was that there are only a very few different things one can do, to make your fixed gear ride "special". Sugino knows this and is offering it's cranksets in many different colors.? And what could be cooler than real Campy pedals for one's bike, especially black ones?
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