Custom Fixie w/ Front Brake
Bianchi Pista
As the weather gets nicer start to notice all the fixed gear bicycles around town and campus. These are three bikes on the rack outside the eddy building on thursday 3/4. The one is the very popular surly model steamroller, other than the frame the owner has pieced together the rest of the bike themselves, it is a very stylish bike with very nice components. The second is a custom bike that someone converted to a fixie from an old road bike (notice the rear dropouts where the back wheel attached to the bike and how it differs from other picture shown). This rider has opted to use a front brake only and no pedal clips not my prefered options, because i am more scared of slamming on the front brake and endoing over the handle bars than of skid stopping with toe clips. But this bike is very attractive as you can see. The third bike is the production model Bianchi Pista which I had mentioned in a previous Blog. It appears to be mostly stock but is also a good-looking bike. In the future I hope to chronicle more bike around town with some input from their owners, but these caught my eye on one of the first sunny days in a while.
