Bicycle Blog
As much as I cringe when I hear people refer to the Eastside as a fixie, it is true that we make a bike that ships as a single speed but includes a flip flop hub for setting the bike up as a fixed gear. So I guess we do make a fixie bike. For me though, the term fixie for some reason implies that the price is very inexpensive - AKA - the cheap fixie. We've been making parts for the last 5 years and bikes for about a year...
Community Shares of Greater Milwaukee is in the midst of their Fall Campaign and Fyxation is proud to support this terrific organization. During the campaign anyone that pledges $25 or more to one of their many non-profit partners is eligible to win one of several great prizes, including a new Eastside Bicycle...
718 Cyclery is a Brooklyn bike shop that isn't your typical cookie cutter bike retailer. Instead of walking into a shop stocked full of Cannondale,Trek,Giant... with sales people that aim more to ignore and intimidate rather than to help get you excited about cycling, you'll find a unique shop that focuses on their craft and your experience as a customer. Custom builds are the rule and not the exception here at 718 Cyclery...
Every once in a while here at Fyxation we get questions from our customers about using compatibility between their pedal straps and our line up of pedals. We recently got a request about the new Cinelli Kink Pedal straps and what Fyxation pedals they would work with. We saw that these straps were introduced by...
Every once in a while here on our blog we stray from writing about ourselves to recognize someone in the bicycle industry that we think as being innovative or at least of introducing a cool product. Velovie is a bicycle company based out of Tempe, AZ that makes carbon fiber road, tri and time trial bikes and they just recently introduced first alloy road bike, the Vecteur 100. Their models include the Vitesse 500, Vitesse 400...
If a picture is worth 1000 words, then the new cyclo-cross book Endure's 100 pages of emotional photography is a virtual encyclopedia of the 2013 US Cyclo-cross Nationals. The dramatic imagery featured in this photo journal takes you right to the heart of the event...
Once we dialed in our new warehouse here in Milwaukee and finally got our own workspace set up for building test bikes we realized that it would be great to give our customers the option to purchase a custom built bicycle directly from Fyxation. For years people have been using our parts...
Fall has arrived and while a lot of people have cyclocross on the brain, we've been hearing a lot of buzz about fatbikes. Fatbikes have taken off the last few years and while they are great for trail riding, riding on the sand and even riding down to the bar, most people associate riding a fat bike with riding on snow - and for good reason. The super fat tires on these bikes...
I just received an email that despite the recent government closure that our friends at Road Holland will remain open during these troubling times. Like the US government, most small businesses have the ability to simply close their doors when they can't decide on a budget or agree on how to run their business. Sorry vendors and employees, nobodies going to get paid until we can figure things out.
