Mud tires play a pivotal role in enhancing the fun of tracklocross when faced with muddy and challenging conditions. Combining deeper tread patterns, self-cleaning designs, softer rubber compounds, and other features make these tires a great choice to increase the enjoyment of winter. What do you need to know when buying mud tyres, though? Well, I’ve answered all of those questions below.
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Gott Ist Tot,the Fixed Gear Version
Philosophy, and life in general, is full of misunderstandings, but one man stands alone by being perpetually misunderstood, especially by angsty teens and people who live in basements, and that is Nietzsche. “God is dead” has been misappropriated for years, and I’m here to set the record straight.
Possibly.
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My Top 5 Tracklocross Frames for 2024
Ok, here we have my long-awaited list of tracklocross frames for 2024. I don’t know who was waiting, but I’m just going to pretend so for my ego. I’ll start with my usual disclaimer: there are no affiliate links here. I’m not after money; well, I am, but not for this list. I’m also not going to list every frame or, as is blatantly obvious, the one you love.
I will try and only pick frames that have any kind of availability for the year. I’m also going to try to avoid bog standard Taiwan frames with an inflated price tag because of stickers.
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Classic or Progressive Tracklocross Frames
OK, as I build up towards my Best Tracklocross Frames of 2024, I’ve decided this year, I’m going to have two frame categories. Why? Well, mainly because I can, and I will go for it. There will be Classic and Progressive categories in the 2024 list, which I may even shove up on YouTube.
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Tracklocross and ADHD
You may have noticed two things if you have followed this blog for a while. One is that I blog in bursts: a week, two weeks, a month of posts, and silence. The other is I talk about mental health. They are both linked, and I want to explore these ideas more. Today, I’m going to talk about ADHD and how being misdiagnosed and then getting a later-in-life diagnosis has affected me. Then I’m going to talk about why tracklocross is my saviour.
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Cycling To The Lighthouse
To The Lighthouse is a great example of tracklocross-focused literature that came out in 1927. Virginia Woolf was heavily inspired by tracklocross and this was what helped her to write a stripped down and plotless book. Basically, this book feels like you are about to hit down a mountain bike trail on a bike with no brakes; how could I not love it?
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Philosophy of Tracklocross – Madness and Civilisation
The philosopher with a name that is so often mispronounced in the UK, I no longer know what his real name is. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Michel Foucault. Foucault wants us to realise we should look back at history, bring back the ideas that work, and use them to question the beliefs and systems we use now. He used this argument many times to explain why the fixed gear bike was a better option than a geared bike when he looked back and did not serve our “modern” ideas.
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The Theodicy: An Attempt to Vindicate Gears
Theodicy is said to mean “vindication of God,” in Greek, but really it is an attempt to justify gearing systems on bikes. It is better not to think of this as a defence of gears but as a way to show that if gears exist, then they are compatible with evil happening; gears do not resolve the problem of evil; they possibly just cause pain and suffering.
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mycelium cycles – A Tracklocross Bike Company
I have finally put my money where my mouth is and started to put together little parts kits to make your voyage into tracklocross that little bit easier. I don’t even want you to buy a new bike; if you have an early 90’s MTB, then you could be on an easy and cheap street to build your first tracklocross beast.
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Alfred Jarry – The Supermale of Tracklocross
Alfred Jarry is responsible for modernism; without him, we might not have had Dadaism and surrealism. Much more importantly, though he loved to ride around Paris on a fixed gear bike and use pistols to keep people out of his way, truly a great way to get about. He may be best known for the play Ubu Roi, but he wrote a book called The Supermale, which deals with a 10,000-mile cycle race and, as far as I am concerned, inspired Le Tour de France, which appeared the year after the book came out.
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Fiefdom Tracklocross 