Gear: Big Shot Bikes

September 12th, 2013 • BY

When I lived in New York City, I used to dance with the bike messengers up and down the Avenues and across the streets. With slicks slapped onto my first hardtail mountain bike, a Specialized Rockhopper, I rode everywhere—to and from work, to the gym, to the kayak put-in on the West Side Piers. I had the burly “thief-proof” lock, but one day I came out of the doctor’s office and my trusty wheels were gone.

I then moved onto a bodega delivery-esque old steel clunker with a big basket that I figured nobody would want. I was wrong. After a few good years, I came out of my Greenwich Village apartment one morning to find the bike still locked up with the wheels missing.

Now, I live in Durango, Colo., where cruisers are the common fare for local transit—they are rarely locked up and even more rarely tampered with—but fixies (fixed-gear bikes) are becoming the urban street bike du jour. Lightweight, nimble, and sleek, they are spot-on for zipping around town—or the urban jungle.

I recently took a fixie from Colorado-based Big Shot Bikes for an extended test spin and fell in love all over again. Crafted of 4130 Chromoly, Big Shot Bikes fixed gear bikes weigh in at a trim 23 pounds, making them fast and quick to respond. Despite its light weight, this made-in-the-USA bike felt strong and stable—its tubes are precision TIG welded for optimal strength.

The coolest thing about Big Shot’s fixed gear bikes, however, may be that you can customize your bike with bar and seat selection plus a big palette of ultra-mod colors for everything from rims and tires to seats and frames. Hop on Big Shot Bikes website and you can customize your own ride with their custom-order feature and order a fixie or single-speed bike in a flash—unless you prefer to play with color options endlessly and post your favs to Facebook for feedback like I did.

Big Shot’s bikes also feature a flip-flop hub that toggles between a fixed gear cog and a free wheel single speed cog with a flip of the back wheel. This feature was key for me to learn how to ride a fixed gear bike without a lot of drama.

With Big Shot Bikes selling these custom fixed gear bikes for a mere $429 plus $34 shipping in the continental U.S. it’s no wonder that they recently sold their 10,000th bike. At this price, you just might not mind quite as much if it goes missing one day.

NOTE: Big Shot Bikes will soon also offer a customizable cruiser bike.

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Erinn Morgan

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After a 10-year career as an award-winning New York City-based editor launching and redesigning urban, style-driven magazines, Erinn Morgan left her downtown Manhattan digs after September 11th, 2001, in search of a less encumbered, freelance lifestyle. A life-changing, two-year-long trek around the country in a motorhome eventually landed her in Durango, Colo., which she now calls home. Her writing has appeared in numerous— More about this author →