Hip Hop Skid Bikes / Hipster Sleds / HHSB

I'm kinda sick of seeing that bike.

eh?

Tokyo Fixed with Aerospoke

I never quite got the point of that bike (I'm aware that's not the point with HHSB). Is it single speed? Did the owner intend to build a tourer but ran out of cash and just stuck his wheelset from his fixie on it?

Question is, is the frame as fake as the car?

haha! no.

It was sold as an 'unknown track frame' that was raced in Vlaams Wielercentrum Eddy Merckx (Flemish Cycling Centre Eddy Merckx), and built by a local frame builder in Ghent. It is a custom build by Plum Vainqueur in Ghent for Wielerbond Vlaanderen (WBV).

more here: http://www.lfgss.com/thread95106.html

here's another Big Beautiful Belgian Bike

I like this page, some lovely rides ^^^^^

With a head tube that looks like a can that is about to explode!

my road frame has a ht like that. impossible to fit a sticker : /

Guys, I think we have overlooked a major factor when considering the Quicksilver/tange bike.
From the link posted earlier:

"In order to retain the integrity of their product, Quicksilver worked closely with Japanese bicycle company Tange and Yuki Takamiya from Far East Smokin’ Skidderz."

Thats right, Far East Smokin Skidders!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDU-VKud8Eg

Just can't see a bike brand doing a load of PR around a collabo surfboard

Quite alot of slavery at East beers yesterday

Definite fake ferrari.

Quite alot of slavery at East beers yesterday

Easts is definitely the HHSBeers

I thought 3Rensho is to do with the three frame builders that got together, one Italian, One Amurcan and One Japanese? Someone posted a story on here a while back about these three and george lucas back in the 70's or something, and something to do with light sabres.

3 - three frame builders
[ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rensho"]Rensho[/ame] - “co-signatory”

#want3rensho

it's 連勝 not 連署

that story sounds pretty sweet tho, especially the light sabres

i think its related to a streak of wins in keirin races

^this

This would seem to confirm what you just said
http://www.classicrendezvous.com/Japan/3Rensho.htm

yeah, if you come first in all races in 3 successive events you get immediately promoted to the next class up

Easts is definitely the HHSBeers

Wait until I finish my sled!

and start attending easts.....

Is Easts stood around a bike rack or did you have a century?

#salvehoard

Im really bored and trying to put off doing any work not to mention intrigued by the whole George Lucas connection so I googled it and found the post in question.

Coincidentally, I was in Tokyo last week for a lecture in the former Vivalo factory above the Carnival shop. I learnt about the intriguing 'missing link' between Japanese, Italian and US frame manufacturers... and, bizarrely, a connection with the Star Wars Trilogy.
Apparently, late one night in 1974 Yoshi Kono, then head of 3Rensho predecessor Cyclone Ltd, was knocking back the saki in a downtown bar with mentor and legendary Italian counterpart Gino Cinelli to whom he was apprenticed, when they bumped into a young George Lucas who was in Japan with actor friend Burt Reynolds and Burt's brother Jim, researching samurai lore for a certain sci-fi film he was thinking of making. To cut a long story short, the group ended up having a drinking session in a backroom at the Cyclone factory. While discussing Lucas's film project and keirin racing, Kono learnt that Jim also made bikes back in the US and drunkenly suggested a collaboration between himself, Cinelli and Jim. To symbolise the triple alliance he proposed calling the company 3Rensho (japanese translation: 'threesome'). This led to an argument between him and Cinelli about whose tubing was the best. In an attempt to prove his was best Kono grabbed a section of a frame that was lying about in his workshop and mimed attacking Cinelli. Entering into the knockabout spirit of the moment, Cinelli grabbed a similar length of tube and the pair had a playful sword fight, with the tubes clashing noisily. Nothing came of the proposed collaboration, but interestingly the new friends all stayed in touch, and the 3Rensho name was later adopted by Kono, and, of course, the lightsaber fight in Star Wars bears a striking resemblance to the mock sword duel an inebritated Lucas witnessed that night. Kono later accused Reynolds of stealing a section of his tubing that evening and using it as the basis for his own line of strong leightweight tubing. He may have a point. Reynolds 531 tubing came out the very next year. And mysteriously, Kono was crippled in an apparent drink-drive car smash just weeks before a copyright case against Reynolds was due to be heard in court. Cinelli gave up making frames soon after and passed ownership of his factory to his brother Guissepi before changing his surname to Ginelli, in order to avoid confusion with his new ice cream-manufacturing business. Gino Ginelli, as many of you perhaps know, invented the tri-colour Neapolitan ice cream. Less well-known is that fact that this was a playful tribute to his old friend Yoshi Kono's idea of a 'threesome' frame manufacturing enterprise. Each of the three colours symbolised a different maker: Cinelli, Reynolds and 3Rensho. Kono repaid the compliment by designing a pursuit frame with a matching tri-colour 'Neapolitan' paintjob and 'melty ice cream' style geometry. Incredibly, that bike frame is currently for sale at tokyofixedgear.com!
A fascinating footnote: the lecturer also told us that the name Vivalo does not, as is commonly believed, derive from a conflation of the words 'viva' and 'velo', but from an English football team and a Swedish car both much admired by the frame builder for their respective creative flair and sturdiness - Volvo and Aston Villa no less! Fascinating stuff.

So there you have it, lightsabers were inspired by two master frame builders whacking each other with frame tubing.

Burt '531' Reynolds of Smokey and teh Bandit?

Gino Cinelli Ice Creamo

Smashing story.

My favourite bit is
"Kono later accused Reynolds of stealing a section of his tubing that evening and using it as the basis for his own line of strong leightweight tubing. He may have a point. Reynolds 531 tubing came out the very next year".

Amazing how some of these legendary tubing designs come about, I heard that columbus SLX was designed by Fred Columbus who had a plumbers merchant on the Balls Pond Road.

^^That's the post I was referring too, but it could well be BS ;)