Bike Snob NYC Best of Collection

Origonaly posted on the comments section of BSNYC, I decided to give it another more accessible home on my blog. So here it is, my own personal best of BSNYC. Brush up on your snob reading during the Snobbaticule.


Worst of NYC Craigslist Bike Ads, #1s

seven signs of fixed gear apocalypse

seven signs of fixed gear apocalypse

five reasons i hate being cyclist

six signs you may be missing entire point of cycling

five grounds for immediate equipment reappropriation

bsnyc add time capsule

put up or be quiet would you still ride?

2008 dream bike shootout

black monday aerospoke crisis

fixedgeargallery of dogged determination"aka the Kludgie"

its all in details screw your bike

bsnyc product review-no holds barred

bsnyc fixed gear apocalypse-watch: The PistaDex

genuine article reporting on fixed gear phenomenon

gilding lily building better bike

hiding in plain sight why cycling is the world's more popular underground activity

purloined letter ball to hed

Lew Racing's 850g wheels

These wheels weight just 850g a set, yes a set. Your probably thinking, thats crazy light and your right. Apparently these are the lightest wheels in the world. Built US-based Lew Racing, but seriously I don't think you will even see many pros racing on these, they would probably have add weight to their bikes just meet the UCI standards.


This bike reportedly wights a whopping seven pounds. The owner of this bike Mr Günter Mai (that's his bike in the photo below), who decided that it was possible to shave even more weight of the wheels. After machining the axle end caps, replacing the steel freehub pawls with titanium pawls, changing out the wheel hub spacers with titanium spacers, using tapered carbon/boron axles and Si3N4 full ceramic bearings, he reduced the already light wheels to a measly 734g. Obviously this guy is a serious weight weenie, oh wait you are too? and you want a pair? well I hope you got a good rate when you refinanced your mortgage because that 600$ stimulus package won't come even close to getting you these 15,000$ hoops.
More about this insanely light bike here

Animal type faces

These are so cool. JeremyPettis.com

Crazy pedals

Obsessed with having a low pedal stack height? then these Vista pedals may be for you. By moving the bearings out from underneath your foot and putting them directly next to the crank, the pedals platform can drop down low enough to set your foot up level with the pivot point of your crank, instead of slightly above as with standard pedals. Moving the bearings to the side of your foot though does have the potently unwanted consequence of increasing your Q factor, which is why vista also sells an integrated crankest where the bearing is housed inside of the crank arm to allow for smaller Q factor. Lowering your stack height with Vista also allows you to lower your seat post 15 to 20 mm which can increase your aerodynamics allowing for easer drafting or faster time trials. They are also pretty light Magic X pictured below is about 120g. It's definitely an interesting idea, if it starts catching on I wouldn't be surprised to see Look or Time do something similar with their pedals.