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A bike lock that doubles as a wrench for wheel nuts. Love it! Via Pedal Consumption.

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Taken from Chicks and Bikes.

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Rhalf has managed to sneak this one under the radar - I had an e-mail from him yesterday with the dates on his signature at the bottom and today I spotted he's added the dates to the chopperdome.com website.Whatevs, it is officially 28th July - 1st August 2010. See you there!

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So I know I may have moaned on about the sexist nature of some of the Girls on Bikes pictures you get on the Internet but never in my wildest dreams did I expect one with a Dyno to crop up. After much soul searching I decided it was too good to miss. Enjoy and Happy Christmas... Taken once more from the Chicks and Bikes blog.

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Shamelessly thieved from the Chicks & Bikes blog..

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Some of you may recall having seen Antti's bike at COTY (in case you forget there is a recap below), anyhoo the reason for all the badges beneath was that he had basically ridden from Helsinki to Amsterdam in additional to the paltry 100km most of us did. Those curious about the route he took and things he saw on the way can now catch up on his new blog here. Enjoy!

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Growing up I regularly used to read mountain bike magazines and lust over the seriously expensive bikes that took off in the UK during the late 90s. One image which I also spent more than my fair share of time eyeing up (bear in mind I was a teenager) was that of an agony aunt nurse who gave tips on improving your health and becoming a fitter rider. Now obviously they didn't cast a

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....a one of these.As you can see she is currently living in my flat. I picked her up yesterday and I'm too smitten to lock her up in the basement. Short term plans are a bloody good clean, ditch the chain guard (although that may change) as well as adding new pedals and grips. Longer term a Brooks or 346 saddle, bent springers (rude not too), bigger tyres (possibly with new rims) and a 5/7 speed

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Maybe it is a glitch in my RSS reader, who knows, but Lowrider Bikes has just been updated with five really top notch articles on how to create your own fibreglass tank. Check it out here.

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Broadly speaking there are three routes to building a custom bike;Custom make it all from scratch (expensive, slow, no good for lazy cunts like me).Buy a Nirve, Basman, Felt or similar and mod it yourself using custom parts (great but ever turned up at a cruise and been a little crestfallen when everyone there has matching Electra Bullet lights?).Go second hand (a la Rat Rod Bikes, awesome but

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Lowrider themed graffiti outside the John Hewitt pub, Cathedral Quarter, Belfast, UK.R1chardM also has a great shot of this on his Flickr Photostream here.

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An Ellsworth "The Ride" has to be one of the best looking bikes around right now, sadly it is also one of the most expensive. That said the gears do sound pretty darn trick. More information can be found here.

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Completely safe for work.

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In no particular order;

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CNN have just posted some fantastic pictures of 20s Queen on their blog here along with a brief interview with the builder. They're worth five minutes of your time; make no mistake.

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1st Place - Alessandro (Italy) "20s Queen" 2nd Place - Jacob Pedersen (Sweden) "Jacob"3rd Place - Chris 'Mr Hot' (Switzerland) "Treesome"4th Place - Make (Spain) "Scorpio"[No picture I'm ashamed to say, but I am working on it] 5th Place - Andre Meekel (Netherlands) "Ice Storm"6th Place - Crusty (Poland) "Angel"7th Place - Sam Daddy'O (Belgium) - "Scarled Deuce"8th Place - Popey (Cleethorpes, UK

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Alas my better half and I both survived FBI 2009 and proudly returned home to Blighty with 100km patches to boot. A full report with pictures will be online later this week. There will no doubt be a million and one posts of the weekend's events online before I even hit publish but needless to say it was a fantastic fantastic weekend. Many friends made, laughs shared and some epic bikes

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Arty as fuck - CheckPretentious as fuck - CheckSweet photography - CheckNice article on the diamond studded bike - CheckEven sweeer article on custom wheels - you betcha assNormally £9 ($14 / €12 ish), the first issue of The Ride is currently available online as a free PDF download. Check it out here (P37 and P63 both worth a second of anyone's time).

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No update in as long as a Swedish Mile so first up apologies for that.Ben Wilson has created what is perhaps the most blinging lowrider I've ever come across. The £25,000 bike ($40,000, 29,000 Euro) has 110,000 Swarovski crystals embedded in it. The detail is just off the hizzo.

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Good Charlotte are one of those bands that if you've reached puberty you should really have grown out of about thirteen years ago. The NME described one of their albums as "Vile, goth-jock pop with all the wit and nuance of a urine-soaked sock" and described the band as "chlamydia for your ears". For a more high brow opinion the New York Times said their album was "A mystifyingly inept CD that

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During a recent two week tour of Scandinavia, I had the random pleasure of discovering Foreningen Christiania Cykler purely by chance. Located in the Christiania district of Copenhagen, Denmark, this shop was a welcome relief from the thuggish gangs openly trading hash around the corner (a history of Christiania's politics can be found on Wikipedia). The shop was broadly split between practical

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Maybe not custom in the traditional sense of this blog, but possibly the most unique bike out there today and surely worthy of a mention as a result. Google have created a special bike mounted camera for their Street View project for use on UK streets where their cars cannot reach. Being a self confessed GPS geek this hits all the buttons for me! Via NaviGadget.

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Watching some clips of ratted bikes on YouTube got me wondering whether custom bikes featured in music videos, films, TV shows and the like. So far I can only come up with a couple, the first of which by the fantastic Ian Brown is below.Due to some haggard rules YouTube music videos are restricted in the UK at the minute so this clip comes courtesy of metacafe. The excellent UNKLE remix of the

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Flickr user Hole Punch Earlobe has some great pictures from EHBE at Flickr, as does cityslik.urban. Both links are well worth five minutes of anyones time.

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Short notice but this weekend is the 1st ever European Handmade Bicycle Expo. It is being held just East of Stuttgart, Germany. If your not lucky enough to be in Germany, you can bet ya ass there will be some sweet pictures on Flickr (and possibly here too) by Monday morning.Via Drunk Cyclist.

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...but sometimes these things are just too jaw droppingly amazing to go by without a mention. The non-Brits out there might have huge kick ass cruises, we got Danny MacAskill. Check it...

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Da Daaaaa!!!!! The directory you've all been waiting for, even if you don't yet know it.Please do let me know if your event is missing so that I can add it.View Roll Like Me; Cruise Directory in a larger map

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...I just have a masters standing between and the summer right now. Coming soon though:Nirve Switchblade review (following six weeks of ownership by yours truly) Bargain beach cruisers - buy cheap, buy twice?Cruise directory - find your localFBI 2009 photos

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Seeing the awesome home turned grips Dman made for his partner's bike earlier in the week (clicky) reminded me of some I'd seen while back at Chopperdome.My current ride (a Nirve Switchblade) has wonderful leather (or at least leather effect) grips that are an absolute delight after many years of foam, rubber and plastic numbers and I feel a bit OTT considering upgrading. Even still, I'm sorely

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As I'm on the verge of booking my flights to Amsterdam, I thought it might be good to post some images from FBIs of years gone by. For those of you new to choppers or haven't come across the event, it is a big meetup for riders and builders from all corners of Europe (and even further afield) in The Dam, all organised by the oracle of all things slow and low, Chopperdome. 2009 will be the first

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The thread has been on since around Christmas time but Dman from New Zealand has posted some truly awesome shots of a beach cruiser he made for his partner over on the Rat Rod Bikes site. I'm utterly utterly envious of the skill that guy has. Everything about this bike just works so well - check out the way the chain loops through the frame, the custom made grips from NZ sourced timber, the

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Given there are so many pages about choppers, lowriders, beach cruisers, rat rod bikes and the like, I figured it'd be good to try and compile a blog highlighting the best of the best sites; the latest news in one single point. Fixed Gear Blog does an awesome job of this for those of us with a fondness for lycra so why not a similar site for the pedal banging, baggy pant wearing people of the

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