This little piece is from a French magazine that came out this summer, ‘Spray’. I don’t know anything about the magazine: it appears to be some sort of fashion rag. They sent out a few reporters to LA to follow around some of the messengers (there’s a good photo of NY Joe) and investigate the new culture of ‘fixed-gear riders’. They’ve got a shot of the shop (TJ’s in it), a picture of our buddy – Seu, a photo from the first downtown crit, and a bunch of quotes from me – Jim C. I had it translated, and they did a pretty good job.

Click below for the rest of the article…

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Last year we built up a set of purple LEVEL hubs for the overall winner of New York City’s Goldsprints. In case you don’t know, LEVEL hubs are AMAZING! They don’t use a traditional cog and lockring, instead their cog slides into place and bolts onto the hub. Easy to use, easy to change, impossible to strip; LEVEL Components makes smart track hubs. Here’s a photo of the wheels we built for Luke Stiles – the overall winner in NYC. We built a 36-hole, 3 cross rear and a 32-hole, 3 cross front. (If you click on the photo, you’ll get a close-up of the wheels, and it’s easy to see how the rear cog assembly differs from standard track hubs.)

Unfortunately, Luke was doored recently. We wish you a speedy recovery, Luke. Click below for the story and testimonial.

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Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 – come on down and rustle up some canned goods for charity. It’ll sure make you feel good! This race is a classic, almost like those Spring races in Europe – a really fun grocery-raid/charity race that is guaranteed to make you feel like a Thanksgiving rock star, even though you only spent $10!

Thanks to the LABMC for all their hard work. See you there…

It’s finally out, and we’ve got a few copies. You can check ‘em out at http://www.cogmag.com/index.html. First come, first served, but you have to mention that you saw it online…we’ve only got a limited number. (They would all be gone in a couple of days if we just gave them away willy-nilly.)

It’s a fairly classy rag. It definitely has a bent for messenger-related events. (Hopefully, they won’t strip away all the mystique that shrouds courier culture.) It is nice to see some folks finally getting recognition – good people doing solid work, like Corn Dog in Seattle. They say it’ll be coming out quarterly; I wish them the best.

Here’s a shot of a bike using one of the newest framesets we’ve got here. The new Brooklyn Machine Works’ Gangsta Track framesets are starting to arrive, and these bikes look tough! (We’re actually building one to put to the test, but BMW claims they’re unbreakable.)

Just click below for more flicks courtesy of Iron Megan.

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…we’re on it, but we need some help! (We really just wanna see what happens if we win.) It’s easy, go to http://myfoxla.cityvoter.com/details.aspx?business=25729 and click on vote. Just remember to delete the checks in the boxes that cause you to get their random junk e-mail updates.

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