Fixed Gear Wales: December 2008

>> Wednesday, 31 December 2008

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Shopping

*CARDIFF

Cyclopaedia
116 Crwys Rd
Cathays
Cardiff
CF24 4NR
Tel: 02920 377772
www.cyclopaedia.co.uk

FGW MORE INFO

The Bike Shed
15 Wyndham Crescent
Canton
Cardiff
CF11 9EE
02920 668772
www.bikeshedwales.com

Tredz
Penarth Road Retail Park
Penarth Road
Cardiff
CF11 8EF
Tel: 02920 702229
www.tredz.co.uk

*CARMARTHENSHIRE

County Cycles
53 Llandeilo Road 
Cross Hands
Llanelli
Carmarthenshire 
SA14 6RD
01269 845656

*SWANSEA

Schmoos
18 Richardson Street
Swansea
West Glamorgan
SA1 3JG
01792 467070
www.schmoosofswansea.co.uk

Wheelies Cycles
34 Uplands Cresent
Swansea
SA2 0PG
01792 472612
www.wheelies.co.uk

Tredz
Castell Close

Swansea Enterprise Park

Llansamlet

SA7 9FH
01792 702555
www.tredz.co.uk

Exist Clothing
214 Oxford Street
Swansea
SA1 3BG
01792 654586
www.existclothing.com
FGW MORE INFO

*SHOP ONLINE

Tokyo Fixed Gear

Stocking the best product from Japan as well as clothing and parts from any other countries doing it well.

Freshtripe

Your local bike shop probably won’t have this stuff - nothing essential, but all very nice nevertheless!

Charlie the Bikemonger

Purveyor of damned fine 29er, fixed and singlespeed produce.

Hub Jub

Bringing the best fixed gear parts and tools from the US and other countries

Track Supermarket

The best track bike components in Japan to ship worldwide to wherever you are!

Wiggle

Excellent general online bike shop, well priced too!

Advice

Video

Fast Friday Teaser

MASH SF Intro

Bootleg Sessions V.1

Bootleg Sessions V.2

Links

*ADVICE/FAQ
Wiki Fixie FAQ
Loads of impartial advice from various sources.
Sheldon Brown
Sheldon's masses of fixed knowledge.
Bicycle e-tools
Handy gear calculators etc.

*LOCATION SPECIFIC SITES
Fixed Gear Leeds
Leeds based fixie blog.
Southsea Fixed Gear Fight Club
Southsea fixie blog, complete with fighting!
Hawaii Fixed Gear
Ride fixed? Play ukulele? Go here!
Milano Fixed
Spanish blog.
Farfast Bicycle Club
Ride/Music/Fashion/Arts & Design from Bangkok.
Edinburgh Fixed Gear
Scottish fixie riders.
Fixed Gear Biking
Fixed Gear Biking for the United Kingdom...
Rotterdam Fixed Gear
Blog, shop and custom builds.
Bike Snob N.Y.C
Hysterically critical blog from the Big Apple!
Cycle Jerks
Cyclists from Denver attempting to make a weekly video revolving around bikes.

*MISC.
Critical Mass Swansea
...a bike ride plain and simple.
Re-Cycle Swansea
Awesome bike recycling charity in Swansea.
Fixed Gear Gallery
Photos of fixies updated daily!!!
Fixed Gear Facebook Group
All the usual Facebook group stuff.
London Fixed Gear and Single Speed Forum
Post if you dare then have a big argument over nothing.
Fixed Magazine
Fixie magazine in print and PDF.
Fixie Fiend
An online fixed gear bike magazine for track bike enthusiast around the world.
Trackosaurus Rex
Cool blog and webstore.
Pedal Consumption
Blog that features all the latest cool stuff!

*VIDEOS
Fast Friday
Awesome documentary from Seattle
Mash
Loads of fast riding from SF
Bootleg Sessions
Two videos full of wild stunts.