Bernie Mikkelsen. http://mikkelsenframes.com

Bernie Mikkelsen, in Alameda CA
http://www.mikkelsenframes.com/pages/803201/index.htm

Mikkelson makes nice frames. Any of you all ever see the "messenger" frames he made maybe fifteen years ago? I think there were a dozen of them, it was basically a beefed up track bike with wishbone seatstays and holes for brakes. Cool bikes...

The kamikazes?

Travis at freewheel has some

Possibly... Do they have the wishbone rear stays? That's really about the only thing I can remember about those frames. Maybe he's making them again, are the ones at freewheel new? How much? Just out of curiosity of course...

Man, I saw Travis has the white Rubino's for cheap over at Freewheel, but they're 25c (I like 23c) and I just bought a new rear in yellow. I'm so tempted to just skid through it so I can justify buying white :o

thanks Bt. Wait till I put the fenders on, people will throw things at me. Actually, though, every single fixed gear rider I have met in person doesn't think my bike is a fixie. They always say "Cool...is that a singlespeed?" It's a stealth fixie.

Your camping trip was very inspiring to me (that was you, right?)...got me thinking about touring with this bike. when i was first looking into fixed gear I saw some fixed touring bikes and thought, that's nuts. But now I don't really see why not. This is the lightest bike I've ever owned, and I can see riding it very far indeed.

cicada, i dig your blog, yo.

Crap. I feel straight scooped--finished the build two weeks ago and been too busy riding to get pics up. I am rapidly discoloring that same perforated white Rolls.

Until the complete bike gets posted tonight or tomorrow, imagine white bullhorns, the white Rolls, red cable housing, red straps and a few other goodies on this frame--it's a chrome, red and white masterpiece in my heart:

http://photos1.blogger.com/img/148/3...4/IMG_1110.jpg

white shoe polish is your friend.

Word. I'd used some leather cleaner to kinda sorta seal it, but I'ma polish it up soon.

Oh yeah...well i knew who it was i just forgot the first name...Phil is a golfer i think. I don't even like golf. *scratches his head*

hopefully, my Ti ride will make two. if i ever get the frame from Dean, and if the LBS ever gets my wheels built.

http://fixedgeargallery.com/2005/jul...eBrannan-5.jpg

58cm Torpado lugged steel frame roadbike from the early ’80s, converted with Salco wheel, new chain and clips.

Sold it though cause it's too big and bought a Bianchi Pista, and I don't care what you think about that

wow that's gorgeous

Thanks to Business Cycles and Sheldon Brown as well as my local bike shop, I have finally built up my fixed gear bicycle. :D

That's a nice looking conversion. I have the frame from my dad's '60s Torpado hanging from a peg in my pantry. It's in need of some TLC, but it's going to be my next build, I think. It's really pretty - lots of orange and chrome.

m.

This thread is to post your pretty pictures, not to b!tch and whine and backstab. I'm deleting this crap (some of with I agree with). Grow up and play nice or else.

Re-posting pictures is annoying.

Here's my SS townie bike. You can't really see it, but I replaced the rear skewer with the Burley alternative hitch so I can haul my son around in his trailer. It's all decked out to be street legal with lights and a bell as well. I'll be using this bike on my 11 mile commute to work soon.

http://img325.imageshack.us/img325/5...29627sx.th.jpg

I see an option to add users to a Buddy List but no Ignore List.

53-11, would you tell me where it is so I can add you to it?

Adam - in your user control panel - left side, down towards the bottom. A beautiful thing indeed.

Wait a minute. Aren't DeBernardis true track bikes with track geometry?

53.11, let's check out your rigs. Do you ride a track bike or road conversion? How long have you been riding fixed? Do you have any experience to speak of?

53-11_alltheway
(Senior Member)

Birthday : May 8th, 1984

give it a rest.

Okay, I'm trying to get this figured out- never mind the "debate" you're having with other posters.

A few posts ago, you said that road geom doesn't work well with a low bar/stem, and then you commented on the DeBernardi (which you just confirmed as having true track geom) by saying that "he is not trying to force the geom into doing something it wasn't meant to do". If your statements about road and track geom are to be interpreted consistently, the DeBe could handle a lower stem with no ill effects in handling.

I'm a newbie to the whole fixed thing, let alone track geom- just trying to figure out what you're saying here, because you seem to be contradicting yourself.