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:

DO IT.

Weekend ride updates are coming, but for now even we agree that there are more important things to think about right now.

New President and updates coming later this week...

Toffed on 24"s.

So a few months ago before the Thrashbike jam at the banks, Anson showed up at the shop with a wayward Kid with little more than a janky ride, funny accent, and a return ticket back to England... and he cleaned up at the banks.

He was as stoked with our bikes as we were with his riding, and after a few chats with our welder Seth, he got set up to test out a one off MCL frame- an ACL frame with 135 spacing so Dan can run his disk/ freecoaster hub.
He sent us an update of how he's getting along on the new ride and we're well impressed with what he's doing already.

(Photos Courtesty of Tristan Cardew. Thanks!)

The ACL is available now as a production frame, just give us a call here at the shop for color options and lead time and we'll get you sorted.

Nippon.

Fall temperatures have officially settled on the East coast making for perfect riding weather. We had all three of the new Brooklyn gravity frames on the mountain this weekend, taking advantage of the short lift lines and season pass sale at Diablo Freeride Park.

(Photo courtesy of SuperKat!)

October in Brooklyn is also that time of celebration of all things good with two wheels...Bike Kill.
From nonsense nyc:
"The hardest, purest event all year. And you know, while it's not a good reason to go to an event just because when you look back at the pictures 20 years from now you're going to say, "Jesus, that shit was so fucking cool," it's something... Yeah, going to Bike Kill is like walking on the set of some movie you've never seen, except get the fuck out of the way because there's a bike flying right for your head and someone just hit you with a loaf of bread. We've always understood the event as not just a celebration of bikes, but a celebration of doing something all on your own, about taking what you care about and sharing it with whoever happens to come on by. And then someone will vomit on the street and we'll remember that we were getting a little full of ourselves."

We'll see you there.

Bull Market.

How do messengers fare when the blue chips are down? Pretty good evidently!

In his latest win, Brooklyn Machine Works rider and working NYC messenger Austin Horse bombed the entirety of Broadway from the Bronx down to the financial district's most iconic statue to claim his cash monies.
(Photo courtesy of Doug @ HARDCOURT)



For those of you who have noticed, Austin's new bike is the very latest production model of the Gangsta Track, lovingly sanded and polished by the man himself (It's the newschool counterpart to shaving your legs).

For all other Gangsta orders, our stock colors for October are Black and Road Cone Orange. As always, custom colors start a Benjamin.

Fo Shawty.

Hey, everybody. Sorry for the delay, we've been calibrating our sine waves...
With new tools, new toys, and new production, things have been buzzing at the shop. Expect updates on what we've been working on this past crazy month, including our third DH rig of the year, the new shorty 8 prototype which will be hitting the lifts in a hot minute.

For all of our other production models, we're taking orders now with lead times well before the holiday shopping curve.

We hope everyone out there has an excellent long weekend out on the trails and street, except for you, Richard Fuld (you + economies=fail).