Ultimate setup – urban cycling
Hiplok
£70, www.hiplok.com
Designed to be “as effortless to take with you as your favourite belt,” Hiplok is a wearable bike lock. Whether you’d be as happy sashing up your grimy wheel rims to a lamp post with your best braces is another matter.
DZR Ovis shoes
£95, www.alwaysriding.co.uk
It used to be impossible to wear SPD (clip-in) shoes without looking like the sort of person who keeps protein drinks in the fridge. With DZR’s leather trainers, you can pedal smart and look normal in public.
Chrome Citizen Messenger bag
£115, www.wiggle.co.uk
Weatherproof bag, 26 litres, yada, yada. The Chrome Messenger’s buckle is a seat-belt clasp which doubles up – wait for it – as a bottle opener. Need we say more?
Viva Pista 1
£500, www.evanscycles.com
Leave gears to the mountain-riding, unitard-wearing, leg-shaving brigade and saddle up on this fine single-speeder with puncture resistant Schwalbe tyres. No one looks good pumping up a flat tyre.
Chrome Champ windproof jacket
£120, www.alwaysriding.co.uk
You’d think a cycling jacket should be hi-viz, right? Not brown. Then again, who wants to wear yellow once they’ve locked up their two-wheeler. The Champ has reverse reflective cuffs and a magnetized flap that flips down to reveal a reflective panel.
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Comments
artdog
2 years ago
Oh yes gears are for geeks. You can't look cool with a derailleur. What a load of crap! Fixies were designed to be cheap and almost not worth stealing. That was the whole point. Once you spend £500 on one you become a middle class dude trying to look cool.
At that prices of this gear, you might as well get some gears and make your life easier.
gch91
2 years ago
Actually they were not designed to be cheap. the reason Fixies migrated from the velodrome is that they are lighter and much less complicated, therefore very low maintenance and easy to fix on the fly, which is why bike couriers all over the world use them every day, they are quick around town and won't let you down.
spending less than £500 will get you a bike with components that are more likely to not stand up to being ridden fixed so spending £500 is actually a sensible long term investment.
ColonelC81
2 years ago
I would agree bikes have got a bit poncey! The B3ta's link to Hoxtons cyclists proves that. I like the dutch attitudes to bikes. They are utilatarian machines for moving us around. They must be tough and reliable and far from shiney!
ashmisty
1 year ago
spending less than £500 will get you a bike with components that are more likely to not stand up to being ridden fixed so spending £500 is actually a sensible long term investment.
- Ash from demotivational posters
mayakings
1 year ago
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shaliniwebnet
1 year ago
I m also agree..
Cycle saddle