The Radavist

Fyxation‘s expanding their line for 2013 and their new catalog highlights their newest products, including new framesets. Check it all out above, with more frame photos here, at their blog.

I’d be on one of these. Milwaukee Bicycle Co‘s new Waterford-built cross bikes look damn nice. At that price, why would you consider a Taiwanese-manufactured frame? It’s like team pricing for the public!

Milwaukee’s OX Platinum cross frame is now up on their site for pre-order. These frames are made from US tubing in the USA by Waterford and are only $660. No one can complain at that price, which comes in around most Taiwanese tigged frames. And you can even customize the paint. Now that’s a steal for steel. Head to Milwaukee Bicycle Co for pre-ordering information. For those interested in a carbon fork, the Whisky Parts Co Number 7 fork will do the trick.

Tokyo Fixed has just posted their look book for 2012, filled with some great photos of their frames in action. Check it out above.

Yummy! This morning, while trying to knock back a few cold ones (that’s code for emails), I popped onto Facebook to see these three belt-drive beauties staring me down. I like Steel and I like cross bikes. Ritte’s ok too, I guess. Kidding aside, head to the Ritte FB to catch the entire set.

What’s up beautiful? Made in the USA from True Temper’s OX Platinum tubeset, disk ready, light-touring ready, cross ready, trail poaching ready, singletrack ready, farmer’s market ready, is your wallet ready for next month? It better be!

Milwaukee Bicycle Co

We all have seen Victoire Cycles‘ exquisite hubs and last week, Julian emailed me a few teaser shots of their new made in France track frames along with this little blurb:

“This frame is built around a really special set of tubes, made in France. Each tube is triple butted and D-shaped. We only made 8 sets of tubes so this frame will be available in only 8 units.”

More to come on this… In the meantime, what’s going on with those Bishop hubs? They’re too nice!

This has all the ingredients to be one of two things: a track beast or a street weapon. The Colossi Sticky Fingers is a rather unique frame. 6061 tubing too! Check out more here.

iMinusD is now taking pre-orders for the new Grime Ghost 26″ FGFS framesets. These new frames are lighter, stronger and offer up a more aggressive geometry than the Goat. Pre-order one now at iMinus D.

Now something you might not know about Kyle is that below those Birkenstocks lies a doom-metal head, as evident here by his latest video for GSC and Moth Attack:

“I needed a travel bike but didn’t have the money for a custom frame. So Megan at Moth Attack just put S&S Couplers on my FBM Sword.”

Fucking Electric Wizard!

Photo by Kyle Kelley

In fact, Kyle’s Sword has led me to pick one up and probably do the same thing. I wanted a beat-it-to-hell track bike to travel with and lock up at bars / wheelie / thrash around on but I didn’t want to go with a Taiwanese bike. I had completely forgotten about the FBM Sword (as has most of the world). Maybe it’s time for a little Sword resurgence? Made in the USA. Built by dudes who like to party and infused with dragon blood.

And of course Megan at Moth Attack is putting S&S on this beast.

I’ve always loved this shade of blue and Morten’s s2 build does it justice. Very clean. See more at Tokyo Fixed!

To make room for their 2013 bike, Volume is selling off the remaining stock on their Generator. $1,499 gets you a complete bike, in red or black now, only at Volume. Check out my review in the previous posts below.

When I was emailed this, my first thought was “genius”. If you’ve ever been to SF and seen aluminum trackbikes, you know the initial livery is not what people tend to display. Instead, stickers, paint markers and other things cover frames, from chainstay to top tube. So why even have a paint design? Maybe that’s what Raleigh was going for with the new Macaframa track frameset? Either way, I dig this. Expect more once the 2013 line launches.

City Grounds just got in a new shipment of the bright-blue Unknown LV1 track framesets. They liked the color so much, they built it up with specs straight outta SF. Check out more here at City Grounds.

Coming up with creative paint schemes in the internet age is not easy, so when I see something like this pop up on Flickr, I take note, especially when it’s from Stanridge Speed. Adam’s newest frame out of the paint booth is a CX Race Rig, complete with a very simple, yet flashy wet coat. Check out more of this beauty at the Stanridge Flickr.