OK, my urban cats, tired of hauling your decent but boat-anchor heavy steel fixie up and down the BART, apartment, and workplace steps at least twice a day? Want something as light as aluminum that doesn't make your shoulders and spine cry for their mamas? Titanium is here for you. Lynskey is officially making a house-blend fixie frame. The fixie frame in the photos is a show bike, which was ridden around the United Kingdom, so it has a special etched design on it. Here's the info on the fixie if you want the skinny on basic pricing, geometry, and finishes.(I just got the official photos today from Lynskey.) If you love Google, but go to Bing.com each day to check out the daily photo,and pretend you are somewhere other than a polyester-covered cube farm, try clicking around on the Lynskey site's bicycle photos. (Suggestion: Be stealth. There's enough oh-so pretty metal on the Lynskey site to make you get yourself busted and fired.)
I ride a custom ti track bike that Lynskey made for me. I rode a steel fixie before. It's all good. But the Lynskey is feather-light rocket that feels like you're on a cloud. If you are tired of jarring your fillings loose on surface-of-the-moon asphalt, it may be time for a Lynskey's ti frame. But isn't the fixie riding experience supposed to be hoop-d messed up crazy ride that hurts? No. It's supposed to be simple and fun. Painful and ugly isn't ever the point. If you still have a job, are commuting on a bike more then in a car, and you've established that you love riding fixed, cancel your gym membership, and start thinking about getting yourself a frame that is going to last a lifetime and not beat you daily to a right pulp. (Oh, and rodent lovers, happy Ground Hog Day!)
Photos sent to Wheelgirl from Lynskey today.
