Fixed-gear talk at Design Museum

Ben Wilson Talk
Ben Wilson, innovative industrial/product deigner, bike fanatic and curator of FIXED shares his passion for bicycles.
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1pm
FREE event
I love my bicycle because...
After enjoying the Tour de France, bring your bike to the Design Museum and tell us why you love it. All contributions will be filmed to form a unique archive of memories, appraisals and passions

i think im gonna come down from bristol to this. dont think it can be missed.
anyone else going?

edit* he is also the bike designer for nike

Resounding 'NO'.

I don't need someone to explain to me a passion for bikes and cycling I've had generally since I could walk and 'FIXED' specifically for the past ten years.

Next someone will be briefing you on the joys of milk with your cereal.

I might go and check out the exhibition, but spare me the insights..

i thought it may be interesting as he designs stuff for nike so probably knows his shit.

Would you buy a bike from Nike ?
I am sure that the exhibition itself will be very interesting and I will probably learn a thing or two, plus there will be some nice bikes there to ogle over, I fully intend to visit.
I just don't believe a lecture by an 'expert' on a field I hold so dear is going to add much.
Incidentally, is there bike parking within the museum?(Seeing as it is a bike event) I don't want to leave my bike locked up outside.

If it's in the Tank its just that glass box outside the Design Museum.

Move along, nothing much to see here....

hey that man might know more than you, you never know he might have been into bikes for 11 years thus able to impart wisdom to even us knowledgeable types

he could even be the one and only jesus!

sheldon browns older and MORE knowledgable brother

not even jesus is more knowledgable then sheldon.....and jesus know his shit!

I would go to a lecture held by Sheldon Brown though..

Yeah I'm down for that. Should be good. Design museum is always worth checking out, alway have pretty good stuff in there.

did you go to the luigi coloni exhibition that was there a few months back??

Nah missed that. Good? I haven't been to an exhibition for aaaages.

yeah it was mental,have you seen any of his work?? if you havnt,have a look

aidan not even jesus is more knowledgable then sheldon.....and jesus know his shit!

yes but bikes ddn't exist at the time of Jesus, you gotta give him that Aidan.

Have any of you seen the Nike bike? It's ridiculous and not something I'd be keen to hear more about.

Snowflakes but, lol.

Actually the story behind that bike is a little bit interesting. Roxy it tells better than me. And some of the stuff that guy is up to is quite inspiring - like teaching kids how to build frames...
I'll probably go see what he has to say.

(And John, good to hear the wrist is ok. When ya wanna meet up?)

I'd like to hear why he put Sugino Maxys (or whatever they are) on a supposedly bling bike :).

Mike - kinda busy this week and the weekend so maybe Tuseday next week?

cycled past on way home, there are 4 bikes in the display cabinet outside the museum
the white nike bike looked alwight!, but didn't get to examine the detail up close

I would be quite interested to see what he has got to say. You can't dismiss someone that easily. Is it worth £10? I guess you could only say that after hearing the lecture.

hey peoples, ben's a mate of mine who loves his bikes and is really good at what he does
i don't really see the need for the bitchyness lads, regardless of taste how many of you have gone out and taught yourself frame building from scratch?
and who really wouldn't (if they had been asked) build a bike for one of the biggest brands in the world? i can't think of a better way to get seen and get recognised. i would love to have influentual people paying me to do what i love!
by all means don't go but don't just winge. the geezer's bigging up the one thing us lot have in common
as for the "snowflake" business i like 'em in fact that's how i got to know ben (had my wheels built by the same dude after seeing ben's bike) they might not be standard but surely thats not what you lot strive for either nothing wrong with being different. if my wheels had collapsed after a couple of miles i'd agree with the form over function thing but as they're into the hundreds now inc' highgate i think there doing great
that's all for now i'm hungry
dave