Look Ma, no brakes!

How to better start the summer, or how more pointedly, to better pretend summer's at the door, than by riding a proud and funky bike?
I've been feeling itchy for a while, browsing tons of internet pages about the fixed gear and single speed bikes phenomenon and obviously the sharp designs linked to it.

So here it is, thanks to Tiziano and Salvatore at Areabici in Milan, my first "wireless bike" which is not a fixed gear, since it has a coaster brake(you need to pedal backwards to stop the posterior wheel). It is single speed, and the nice cruise feeling comes from its huge 700c clinchers race tyres, and from its vintage handlebar...

I do hope this is the first one of a in a long serie, since once you start combining parts, you could (at least you wish you would) never stop! And since most of the components are recycled from older bikes, a bit of adjustment is always welcome! So here's a few pictures taken by a friend this week-end right after having picked it up at the shop. (Thanx Alison for the cool pix!)

I let you judge now, not before giving you a link to a new service which i recon is pretty cool and most of all quite efficient: as my friend Niko says, it's nice to see websites that do one single thing in a nice and effective way, so here's another newborn platform dedicated to the ever growing music sharing community: Muxtape. And in order to celebrate my new "ride", you can find there an easy thematic mp3 selection.
Hope you'll enjoy it.

http://kramerdeluks.muxtape.com/

























Take care, hope to get back to you pretty soon for some more street report.
Ciao.