Puma's Fixed Gear 101

http://staufenberger.typepad.com/repository/PumaFixedGear101.pdf

cringe!

oh no, not again.

still, as bad as most of it is, at least it's thorough.

illustrations are nice.

hang on, but what is it for?

i think the fixed gear thing is gonna be big this summer.

don't panic i saw that a year and half ago, its nothing new, it might have slipped under the radar. shhhhh.

Didn't that come out ages ago? At least last year or summink…

^^
Oh wait. Doubly slow. Silly me.

i think it came out in the late 90's/early 2000's.

when riding track bikes on the street was slowly increasing in popularity

They have an updated version out in the states, which is much worse than this one.

I'll give 101 props, its a decent (and free) collection of some useful (and not so useful) fixie stuff.

looks like the wheel building zine some denver soap dodgers did around the same time... now i know where their got their influence.

dudes got cool tattoos "brak suck"

God bless capitalisms

Turd Fergurson dudes got cool tattoos "brak suck"

God bless capitalisms

did someone at college, make that?!?

i think the 'e' is on his thumb...either way its cool man

What the fuck are you on about Dale...I think your the only one in the history of humanity to find the phrase "college" funny....

oh and yes, of course someone at college made a picture of a man holding pista drops with shit tattoo's just for the one of use in a Puma book! Everyone i know jumped at the idea although when the book came out i had never even heard of track bikes and was still in 6th form...

ha ha ha i'm glad another Aidan agrees with us.

Puma 101 If you want a
fixed-gear, leave the brake off. Because,
literally, you do have a brake. Your legs
slow it down. And, if you’re afraid too—if
you think, “I need the brake because I
want to be able to stop,” then take the
brake off, and don’t go that fast. And when
you’re ready to go faster, go faster.”

I can't belive I just read that. wow true words of knowledge lol

Squid is well-respected within the messenger community (jointly received the Markus Cook Award in 2006), but the Puma thing is controversial within the messenger scene, not least because Puma parked a branded hummer at the 2005 CMWC.