Takhion Replica 1 - 2011

Olli Erkkilä's latest and by far the greatest project the handbuilt soviet Takhion track bike replica is finally ready!

SJT Handmade Chainrings

First batch of handmade custom SJT chainrings is here. Designed and made with love by Santtu_T, the all-around Helsinki Foot Down Champion and Master of Scary Industrial Machines. Tough and burly chainrings, that's for sure. Messenger Approved(TM) too, of course. 

Also, the first SJT custom track hubs are ready and just waiting to be laced but unfortunately I got no pictures of them yet. Anyway, I can assure you that they're super nice after fondling them with my own greasy fingers last night. 

Mad Respect!

Olli's Fixed Gear SUV For Sale

You remember Olli's Fixed Gear M.A.S.H.-style SUV? 

Well, I've probably forgotten to mention that it's currently for sale here. So if you want to own a hand-made custom bike like no other, just send him a message. The asking price is 1100€ but I understood that he'll probably also listen to serious offers. 

Olli's Metalspoke Wheel Copied!

I was checking out some photos from the Tokyo Hand-made Bicycle Fair 2009 and couldn't help noticing how someone had copied Olli's original wheel-design!

Olli's Kosmos: Almost Ready

Olli's Kosmos Project Advances

Beautiful. See full Flickrset here.

While On The Subject of Custom Stems...

What happens if you take an old ugly Peugeot stem and some powertools and work a bit on the stem. Oh, and you need some serious skills too. 

Polished Custom Aluminium

No explanations, and no more pics than that at this time as Olli has ran out of bandwidth because of all of you ogling and posting his amazing creations...  

Olli's Kosmos: Under Construction

Here some bike pron for yo'all. Olli's new project, Kosmos, is in the process but to me it is somehow starting to look more like an Octopus now. 

Corratec 1994 Track Bike

While Olli builds his mad bike designs over here at the moment, there were people before him who decided to challenge the conventional rules of frame building. I just wonder why these types of ideas did not stick and become used more often. Maybe there was a reason... 

If that bike is your type of thing, check out the auction and tons of hi-res pics in here. 

Olli's New Whip: Kosmos

ChopperOlli is bending steel again. 

New project is under way, the draft name is 'Kosmos' and I believe the inspiration came from those wheels he just built, actually. 

Here's a full gallery of hi-res pics. And hey, it's barspinnable too!

DIY METAL Arrospok By Olli

What the...? 

Yes, a DIY "aero"-wheel AKA Arrospok by our Master of Metal, ChopperOlli. 

New St*rfuckers Fork Design

The new fork design from St*rfuckers in Tokyo is looking interesting indeed. 

Sturdy looking and with TWO positions to put your wheel in, the other one providing zero-rake. So it's obviously made for tricks. 

(Click the pic to see it in full size, blogspot image-sizing is acting funny again, at least on my screen.)

(From 3Bancho.)