Krylon.

Our friend Doug D shot some photos of his modified Gangsta after a bit of experimentation with the rattlecanz.

Bike Check:
Frame: Brooklyn Machine Works Gangsta Polo
Fork: Brooklyn Machine Works Gangsta Polo
Headset: Brooklyn Machine Works
Bars: Nitto B2500AA
Stem: Origin8 100mm
Grips: Oury
Barends: Brooklyn Machine Works
Brake Lever: Odyssey Monolever Medium
Brake Caliper: Sram Rival
Seat: Kashimax
Cranks: Sugino XD 170mm
Chainring: Milwaukee Pologuard 35t
Freewheel: White Industries ENO 21t
Chain: KMC K710
Wheels: Milwakuee 48 hole hubs Velocity Deep-V rims
Pedals: Haro Small Block

Check out Doug and his exploits at Hardcourt Bike Polo.

Screw Cancer.

While you're unlikely to see a BMW in a tri, we're always down for a a good cause. On your ride tonight, swing through DUMBO to share a few beers, watch people get worked on rollers, and help some gals Run/Bike/Swim.

Weekend Windown.

Trapped at work? Are Dreams of warm weather and trails making you want to bang your head against your desk?

Take a deep breath, watch this, and relax...

Downhill season is just a few short months away!

In the meantime, spend the chilly weather getting your dance on in the coolest place to spend Valentine's day in all of New York City.


Our friends at Times Up are celebrating NYC's new bike-friendly initiatives with a V-day party at the world famous Autumn Bowl in Greenpoint:

"LOVE YOUR LANE RIDE AFTER-PARTY
Saturday, February 14th, @ 8:30 p.m.
The Autumn Bowl, 73 West Street in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
With Team Robespierre and DJs Stacher, Dirty Finger and K-Tel
Projection installation by CJ and friends
This is a Time's Up! Fundraiser- $10"

(Luke is supposedly working behind the bar, but will probably wind up under it. )

Endless Trail Bike Check.

Our friends Rick and Sarah at Endless Trail Bikeworx have their SR built up for some heavy duty trail action this year. Bike Check:
Frame-BMW SR6
Shock-Fox DHX coil 5.0
Fork- RockShox Totem Coil
Shifter/Deraileur- SRAM XO
Brakes-Avid Code
Crankset- Shimano Saint
Wheelset- Transition Revolution
Cockpit- Easton/Thomson/SDG
According to Ricky," If you love your downhillbike, but you want something a little more freeride, the SR6 is the one..."
Check out the folks at Endless Trail for their full review and drop by their shop this season for all your 2 wheel needs. See you on the mountain!

400 vs. 1

Last weekend the good folks in Minneapolis continued the tradition of the Stuporbowl, one of the longest-running alleycats in North America...in the middle of a Minnesota winter. This year hundreds of racers gathered in the twin cities and Brooklyn Machine Works rider Austin Horse was there to represent NYC.

23 checkpoints and a few RedBulls later, he pulled it in for the Big Apple on his trusty Gangsta Track.A full race report is up on the Bike Jerks blog, detailing insane checkpoints including a sledding hill, Cars-R-Coffins, and "2 dudes fishing".

Big thanks to Jeff Frane (the brains behind Bike Jerks and All-City) for all his hard work and giving Austin a run for his money, and everyone else who worked so hard to pull off another incredible Stuporbowl.

More pictures on Flickr.

New Gangsta

One of our workers, Darren, just put together a Gangsta Track which he welded himself.



Frame & Fork: BMW Gangsta Track
Cranks: Sugino Messenger
Wheels: Surly Hubs-DT Spokes-Velocity Deep V's
Saddle: San Marco
Post: Brooklyn
Bars: Nitto Drops
Stem: Dimension

Seth's Bike Check

One of our welders, Seth, just built up a Big Ben.

Frame: Brooklyn Machine Works Big Ben
Fork: Black Market
Bars: Funn 2" Rise
Stem: Brooklyn
Grips: Animal Edwin
Barends: Brooklyn
Headset: Brooklyn
Seat: Odyssey Aitken
Cranks: Profile 175mm
Sprocket: Hoffman Dinky 29T
Chain: KHE Halflink
Brakes: Avid BB7
Front Tire: Tioga FS100 26x2.10
Front Wheel: Araya Rim and Bullseye Hub
Rear Tire: Tioga FS100 26x2.10
Rear Wheel: Dumpster Especial
Pedals: S&M

It's being boxed up and sent to the Land Down Under for a little vacay, manual contest down Powers St to ensue upon it's return....

Congrats Doug!

Congratulations are also in order for Doug D of Hardcourt Bike Polo, who flew to Madison for the New Years Eve Polo Championship. The NYC team repped hard, remaining undefeated in their first day of play and cinching 3rd place overall in the elimination.

Taste the Rainbow

Only a week into the new year and we're back in the saddle, reshaping things at the shop for another year of building bikes right here in Brooklyn.

We're also deep into the remaining stock of painted park frames, on sale for the rest of January.

Remaining colors are: UPS Brown, Cream Green, Dark Blue, Not-Dark-Blue, EggShell, PuPon, Battleship Gray, Fire Engine Red, and Ducati.

Happy New Year people !!!!

Whoa. 2008 Over and almost out. Got to send many thanks out to everyone who supported Brooklyn this year. With your support this has the most productive year EVER for us. 8 NEW frames available and almost 500 frames produced in house this year! The 5 of us have been neck deep trying to keep up. Hope you are all happy with the direction things have taken in '08, get ready for more new bikes/ parts/ etc. in 2009.

Peace and prosperity to all for the new year.
-Joe, Darren, Ken, Luke and Seth

To celebrate the coming year we are blowing out PARK BIKE frames for $300 for the month of January!!!!!!
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SNOW!!!

Finding it difficult to maintain traction with those 700 x 23 tires?
Check out the new BMW Snow Fixie!

Slope Ranger Snapshot

Statencross

NE Cyclocross season is in full swing, and last weekend NYC had its first cross race in a decade on Staten Island. Austin couldn't resist the chance to do it fixed, and bagged a third place win on his Gangsta Track.


Tire Clearance: Check.
Brake Clearance: Check.
Slow steady drizzle throughout the day: Check.

Gosh. He's fast.

(Photos courtesy of Anthony Skorochod @ cyclingcaptured.com)

Mo twentyfo's.

Christmas orders are shrinking our stock of ACLs, but rest assured riding a Brooklyn is just as fun before the holidays as after. We'll be redoubling production soon, so for those of you saving those last pennies of 08, check out some 24" action to hold you over.

Toff whippin' it.

Tom Lamarche riding an ACL better than it's owner.

English Parkstar from the forums layin' it down on dirt.

Dan Bowhers also moved to the neighborhood a while back. Here's another great cut of him getting ill on the parkbike.

October Snapshot.

Mr. Dan Bowhers riding the rails on his well-used Brooklyn Park.









Maya waving "Hi!" on a wallride:















The Boss Man Joe Working the new Shorty8 at Diablo:

Luke getting Worked at Bike Kill in Brooklyn: