Long time fixed gear legend Tyler Johnson joins us to talk about all things Fixed Gear in today’s episode of Off Track!
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Topics:
0:00 – Intro
5:09 – Getting on Leader
9:35 – Shadow Conspiracy Legal Battle
11:20 – Leaving Leader
14:20 – Competing mindset
18:40 – Sizemore
19:40 – Switching to 26″
23:24 – SKYLMT
28:59 – Sizemore custom 29er
31:23 – Chris Clappé
34:17 – Seattle scene
36:06 – More SKYLMT
42:36 – Why pegless?
49:09 – Leaving SKYLMT
52:00 – Crazy tricks on SKYLMT
55:46 – Grime goes to Seattle
57:32 – I hate Art Institute
58:17 – Fixie money
59:55 – Inspiration
1:08:01 – BMX Inspiration
1:11:53 – Retirement and Unretirement
1:29:27 – Making a frame?
1:33:03 – Evolution
1:36:31 – Tyler doesn’t break things
1:38:12 – Tires
1:40:40 – Riding again
1:43:37 – Future of FGFS
2:05:12 – Outro
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Holy that's a lot of content
Aye-O it's your boy here, sorry for the slow internet connection… 😅
Deacons cheese and nodding yes the whole time gives me posi feels 😁😄
Agreed. Tyler. Jball discipline is the modern Jensen discipline. Abnormal bike control under any condition. 😮
SOGOOD
Might be an obvious thing to say, but I definitely agree that the future of FGFS will have a lot to do with fixed-gear specific bike shops – sure, people can get shit online, but there's nothing quite like going into a shop and staring at all the cool shit that you then think about for the next few weeks – we have a fixed-gear specific shop here in Melbourne but its run by a dude who is in the business because he recognised that local hipsters will spend any amount of money; dude has never ridden a fixed gear ever. So I think people behind businesses who are in it for the long run and with heaps of passion is going to have a big role in picking the global scene up again.
Amazing interview… so much good history in there
Thank you all for this! FIxed Gears are on another comeback, I’m hopeful.
Question: what is your favourite fixed gear bike to ride? (Fgfs, Tarck, Tracklo, track)
I love the open chat about everything you guys talked about. Yes I’m gonna show up with a prototype 29er Saturday and then go from there so see you all soon and thanks for the love guys
I want to see more fakie wheelies on tarck/track bikes more so than fakie full cabs and keo 1080+ all the time.