Pra estrear a categoria “Deus está aqui” deste blog (com coisas realmete incriveis) o livro “42 x 12 – The Cult of Fixie”. Um trabalho sensacional do inglês Patrick Potter retratando a cultura das fixied gears e todos os seus aspectos. É um livro de 2010 e cada capitulo é uma imersão em algum aspecto do universo das fixas: quem são os fixie riders, liberdade, bike polo, keirin, tricks, messengers, bike porn e por aí vai. Fotos e textos muito bem produzidos, diversão bem garantida pra qualquer um.
Veja o texto de apresentação do livro:
42×12. The Cult of Fixed
The fixed-wheel, fixed-gear or simply ‘Fixie’ bicycle has, for better or worse, become the focus of a sub culture all of its very own. There are those who come to Fixies from the manly and serious world of road racing citing the bicycles’ considerable capacity to strengthen the legs and improve ‘souplesse’. There are those who come simply because it’s fantastic fun to learn the new awareness and co-ordination required to make Fixies fly. Then are those who come because it’s really, really cool and the bikes are well, sweet. And finally there are those who come by mistake and leave shortly afterwards. All of these pilgrims are rewarded. But above all the Fixie offers an amazing new perspective on riding a bicycle. A perspective that many claim to be a gateway to a mysterious ‘zone’ wherein the body and cycle become one with the road, time compacts and the mind is for a few priceless moments chained to the moment in all its ragged glory. In short, it is a moving meditation.
RaioX 
Posted on 14/03/2011
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