Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - Please read this

Hi My name is David Bremberg and im working on making a book about fixed gear bikes and its riders.
I am a fixed gear enthusiast myself and love the culture that surounds it.

Im looking for people who wants to show their creations for the world and in the same time show themselves. So be proud of yourself and your bike and show it to the world in my upcoming book about fixed gear.

What i need from you is:

- A Hi-res picture of you and your bike ( preferebly landscape format )
- Information about you (country, city, your name, age)
- Specs about your bike ( brands, size etc. )
- Contact info

Hopefully this book is going to availible for the whole world later. So if your interested or have questions send me an email with the the pictures and info
to:

david_bremberg@hotmail.com

Thank you
Hope you want to participate in this exciting project
And everyone who gets published in the book gets their own example.


Disclaimer:
By sending me picture you agree to participate in this book and giving me the right to use the picture in a comercial use.


Reference picture
http://img252.imageshack.us/img252/904/fixed.th.jpg (http://img252.imageshack.us/i/fixed.jpg/)

this is a trap. i will never expose myself.

Its not a trap iam very serious its going to be a great book, I've posted this message on alot of bikeforums and found people all around the world.
So tell your friends and what not and this will be a fun project

this is a trap. i will never expose myself.

That's not what those school girls said.

Do I need a tark bike?

Adriano is very protective of his identity. I, however, have his address.
:p

Its going to be a book about fixed gear so yes a track bike, But hey if you have some other cool project you wanna show maybe i make an exception. Just see that your picture is a real hi-res picture. Use www.sprend.com to send pictures that are over 10 mb
thanks guys and girls

:cry: my conversion isn't cool enough

Re-read what he wrote. He said Tarck, not track.

major difference. Track even has it's own section here on BF. :D

Yes tarck bikes too

misread his post, sorry

http://bikes.urbanoutfitters.com/
with all the possibilities, you can fill at least a 200 pages book !

This dude cant spell and has bad grammar,
and hes doin a book!?

I know a pub will have editors but still!

http://bikes.urbanoutfitters.com/
with all the possibilities, you can fill at least a 200 pages book !

lol

Using the term "fixie" :
Negative 10,000 street cred points

I like how the example image for "reference" is a medium sized, low-res web picture. If you're planning on printing your "book" on anything besides your parent's inkjet you're going to want images that are at least 200ppi.

youre an enthusiast who loves the culture that surrounds fixed gear bikes and you want to make a buck off it now? gimmie a break. no thanks

I like how the example image for "reference" is a medium sized, low-res web picture. If you're planning on printing your "book" on anything besides your parent's inkjet you're going to want images that are at least 200ppi.

300DPI is usually the standard.

I think his reference image was for composition and content, not size.

300DPI is usually the standard.

dpi is printer resolution, i was talking about images so i used the proper unit - ppi

youre an enthusiast who loves the culture that surrounds fixed gear bikes and you want to make a buck off it now? gimmie a break. no thanks

+1
to the OP : i disagree with you counting on other people's work and creativity to publish a book you will make money from. All the more so since the targeted readers for this book are the same you would have taken pictures from.

I think his reference image was for composition and content, not size.

You may be right, but the fact that he didn't specify a minimum resolution is a bad sign as far as I'm concerned.

However, I hope he really publishes his book, it sells like hotcakes, he makes a ton of money, and puts the final nail in the coffin of this whole hipster-fixie nonsense.

Adriano is very protective of his identity. I, however, have his address.
:p

thats my first proxy. that shirt traveled around the world twice before getting to me. you cant be too careful.

thats my first proxy. that shirt traveled around the world twice before getting to me. you cant be too careful.

There is a moderator on this site that works at a postal sorting facility. When a member was being harassed by someone that is clearly unbalanced, another moderator made a foil hat, and had it sent through that sorting facility. No return address, and hundreds of fingerprints.

I think the OP should really be hiring a photographer and finding people who want to pose in the pictures rather than relying on internet forums to compile a library of poorly taken shoddy looking pictures and assume publishers will be interested. you have a real concept here, its a good coffee table book, but your execution needs work. you may have enough to make a pitch to a company but you really need to do much more work to actually get this done..

I refuse to be in your dumb book.

I suggest you visit other fixed gear forums if you want to get more info about the culture. This forum isn't really "hip" and the majority here are anti-everything and bunch of elitists.

I suggest you visit other fixed gear forums if you want to get more info about the culture. This forum isn't really "hip" and the majority here are anti-everything and bunch of elitists.

Seems to be quite true. What other forums did you post in?

I think the OP should really be hiring a photographer and finding people who want to pose in the pictures rather than relying on internet forums to compile a library of poorly taken shoddy looking pictures and assume publishers will be interested

+1
Or we need to be compensated..

Dumb

Isn't fixed gear "culture" pretty much about what you buy? Why are people surprised that someone is trying to make a buck off a culture of naked consumerism? I mean really, people.

I think the OP should really be hiring a photographer and finding people who want to pose in the pictures rather than relying on internet forums to compile a library of poorly taken shoddy looking pictures and assume publishers will be interested. you have a real concept here, its a good coffee table book, but your execution needs work. you may have enough to make a pitch to a company but you really need to do much more work to actually get this done..
I agree. This is mostly a photography project, and does have some potential, but you need a unifying vision (read single photographer) to make the concept work. The bikes already portray how the riders see themselves, so a picture by the rider of his/herself is merely ego with no perspective. We already have FGG and Velospace for that. You need to do the legwork to craft some sort of narrative
Think about it this way: Now you have an excuse to travel a lot, ride bikes, and enjoy the culture

Hey you should post this on tarckbike.com

Those guys would be all about your book!

do you want my social security number and bank account information too?

I agree. This is mostly a photography project, and does have some potential, but you need a unifying vision (read single photographer) to make the concept work. The bikes already portray how the riders see themselves, so a picture by the rider of his/herself is merely ego with no perspective. We already have FGG and Velospace for that. You need to do the legwork to craft some sort of narrative
Think about it this way: Now you have an excuse to travel a lot, ride bikes, and enjoy the culture
I think a kind of "page per rider" format would be cool. a quick headshot of the rider off the bike, the bike and a blurb about the rider(occupation hobbies aside from cycling) NOT the bike, and I would stray from using an excessive amount of people who use their bike for their job, you don't want 70 pages of bike messengers and tech specs about their parts... no one really cares about that **** outside of these forums.

Fun to read that this post stirred up a discussion, If my english is a bit wrong sometimes can be that im from sweden and its not my native tongue. Thanks for the constructive critisism that can help! Im a graphic design student who does this as a side project besides the studies just becouse it would be a fun thing to do.

The thing i thought of by not using a single photographer is that the images will be diffrent in every photography and to balance that up use a layout that still makes it look solid. I have an image in my head that this could be a great project. I,ve posted this on alot of forum and blogs and i got alot of good response. The picture need to be atleast 3800x2500 px

in a few days i can give those who are a bit interested and taste of what it could look like.

Take care people

I think a kind of "page per rider" format would be cool. a quick headshot of the rider off the bike, the bike and a blurb about the rider(occupation hobbies aside from cycling) NOT the bike,

Urbanvelo does this. In practice it is boring as hell

Why don't you go solicit people on http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/ Find bikes/pics you like and contact the owners for permission to use them.

What comes to mind are the really lame coffee table-type books about "Radical Skateboarding!!!" that were around when I was a kid. My friends and I who skated loved making fun of those silly books.

Some years ago, a woman with a huge camera approached me on the street in Boston, asking me to allow her to take some photos and get some info and a short statement from me for some book about dreadlocks. It seemed legit and I do remember seeing the actual book in a bookstore once it came out. At any rate, I said no.

What comes to mind are the really lame coffee table-type books about "Radical Skateboarding!!!" that were around when I was a kid. My friends and I who skated loved making fun of those silly books.

Does anyone honestly even need to point out the sheer ridiculousness of people who have been part of a sub group for what; a few months, calling someone elses contribution to that subgroup inauthentic?

"haha, did you see that lame-o with the book trying to capitalize on our culture man? I've seen a lot of dudes like that in my time man, I've been riding all the way back since June" :rolleyes:

What comes to mind are the really lame coffee table-type books about "Radical Skateboarding!!!" that were around when I was a kid. My friends and I who skated loved making fun of those silly books.

Some years ago, a woman with a huge camera approached me on the street in Boston, asking me to allow her to take some photos and get some info and a short statement from me for some book about dreadlocks. It seemed legit and I do remember seeing the actual book in a bookstore once it came out. At any rate, I said no.

Seriously? A book about dreads?

Totally off-topic, I work with a Jamaican girl who says she's never smoked any herb. Crazy talk.

I wasn't really calling the dude out saying that whatever contribution he's making isn't "authentic", I was just pointing out how laughable a book like this may end up being...just like those books about skating were back in the early 80s.

Besides, just because I ride a bike (or have dreads, skate, listen to old hardcore, etc.) doesn't mean I need to be a part of any particular "sub-culture", let alone somehow feel I actually own it.

OP - Write a book about whatever you want. Hopefully it will offend all the right people.

Trying to get people on SSFG to post a picture of anything other than lolcats or something else totally unrelated? Hah! You'd be fighting an upward battle if you were merely asking a question!

Another idea shot down on SSFG!
Go brood with top tube girl and frame sticker guy!

Go brood with top tube girl and frame sticker guy!
:lol:

What comes to mind are the really lame coffee table-type books about "Radical Skateboarding!!!" that were around when I was a kid. My friends and I who skated loved making fun of those silly books.

Some years ago, a woman with a huge camera approached me on the street in Boston, asking me to allow her to take some photos and get some info and a short statement from me for some book about dreadlocks. It seemed legit and I do remember seeing the actual book in a bookstore once it came out. At any rate, I said no.

Is that because you are shy?

I wouldn't say I'm shy. I just felt better about politely saying "no thanks" than taking part in documenting a "movement" (as the woman put it). I had my good reasons for dreading my hair back when I started but at the end of the day, it's just hair.

I don't consider my bike a "fashion statement" either.

Hey guys I have an idea

You do all the work

I'll take it from there

Thanks!

1. Lay low
2. Take notes
3. Write a screenplay
4. Sit on it for 20 years
5. Profit!

stop saying fixed gears are a sub culture, they're a type of bike.