Comments on: Track bikes from BMX brands

By: Summershoe

Summershoe — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:21:00 +0000

BMX companies making track bikes might be a boon for the sport of track racing as well. Many track events are short and explosive like BMX. Great Britain has some former BMX’rs on their Olympic track team.

By: flatty

flatty — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:28:00 +0000

The Olympic BMX team uniforms were designed by Bob Haro of old school BMX fame. I’m happy to report they are much less flashy and obnoxious then the 80′s neon and todays MX/Nascar inspired unis.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:33:00 +0000

Apologies – I read your post earlier in the day, and got all backwards. I realize that you mentioned, no featured the Volume.

I MEANT to say that they have a new one out called the Creedence. Should be coming out in a month or so. Sheesh.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:30:00 +0000

James, I’ve been enjoying your site since I came upon it a couple months back. I’m a BMX guy at heart, hit my name to check out my site – BMXRoots.com. Funny you posted about this – I JUST posted about my new-found desire for a single-speed road bike, yesterday.

Anyway, another BMX company making what look to be a couple of nice fixed gear bikes is Volume. Check them out at http://www.volumebikes.com

By: James

James — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:38:00 +0000

Thanks Mark, FBM is new to me. By the way, I enjoyed looking through some of the shots on your site. Nice photography.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 09:07:00 +0000

FBM (fat bald men) have a fixie frame on the market too.

By: James

James — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:14:00 +0000

Ghost rider, thanks for the tip on Profile. I used to really like their tubular cro-mo splined BMX cranks when I was a kid.

Fritz, I didn’t know that Fuji owned SE. I didn’t even know SE was still around. I also liked PK Rippers 25 years ago in my BMX days. I posted a link to some track bikes painted to look like BMX bikes a while back. One of them was painted to look like a PK Ripper, but at the time I had no idea that SE was actually making track bikes. You certainly don’t see those bikes around here.

By: GhostRider

GhostRider — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:00 +0000

One other BMX company who “made the leap” to track bikes is Profile Racing of St. Petersburg, Florida. They make some awesome fixed-gear hubs in a variety of dazzling colors.

Felt is another full bike manufacturer that has a couple fixed-gear rigs in their stable, too. They may not qualify as a “traditional” BMX brand, but that’s all I knew from Felt until they came onto the pro cycling scene. Heck, I thought the company was just called “Felt BMX” !!

By: Fritz

Fritz — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 20:32:00 +0000

SE is owned by Fuji. My Fuji bike shop friend tells me his Fuji track bike is very similar to the SE Lager with many parts in common, though I haven't check this for myself. And of course every review of the SE Draft mentions the BMX-style bottom bracket and cranks on that bike.

The SE Lager seems to be very popular in the San Francisco Bay Area -- and a lot of the fixed gear kids around here are painting their bikes up.