Last week I received my new fixed gear bike. I chose to buy a new one as a second hand ones costs more ... I know that living in Japan I "should" ride a Nagasawa or Watanabe or at least a Panasonic etc etc... But for what I want to do with it (having fun) I don't want to spend 200000 yen. Read more

Today I setted up a new account on Twitter with the user name PignonFixe. "Pignon Fixe" stands for "Fixed Gear" in French. So, what is it about ? This twitter account is automatically feeded by blogs RSS feeds. I collect the blogs url/RSS and then using tweeterfeed.com, when a new blog article is published, the PignonFixe twitter account tweets it! It is that simple. I think it's a gr... Read more

I played a little bit with the YouTube API today, using the classes provided by Zend Framework. The result is a Fixed Gear Videos Gallery. It is quite basic for now, it just retrieves the latest fixed gear videos published on YouTube. Plus, I made 3 categories : videos from Japan, France and the Anglophone world. The way I do the search for each category is far from perfect but it works not... Read more

Working now in Shibuya I can see everyday some dudes riding fixies (and some single speed also). During one of my lunch time I discovered a shop 3 mn from my office in a small street : Triple rock Bicycles : Specialized in BMX and has some fixed gear stuff, they are selling right now the latest SE models. A Bianchi, I guess the owner was not far as he didn't lock it : Stealing... Read more

Yesterday I went to the Tokyo Handmade Bicycle Fair. I thought of a quite big event but it's actually a rather small organization. It took place at the Museum of Science just next to the Emperor Palace. It is not the kind of event like the CYCLE MODE International for example, but more a "family" event. Simple, small and free entrance! (which is quite unusual in Japan). It was a good opportunit... Read more