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Chaingang Rotafixa S.p.A.
The Velocity Chaingang is a closely knit group of fast urban cyclists addicted to speed and to honing the craft of building clean and simple urban cycling machines. The group naturally gravitated towards fixed gear bicycles - machines of a rare beauty simplified to the point where furthur simplification is impossibile - and so the Chaingang Rotafixa S.p.A. was born.
The group is currently collaboratively working on an italian fixed gear resource which will include a directory of fixie-friendly bike shops, a detailed technical manual on how to build and dial in a fixie plus a slew of other useful essays on how to get the most out of these wonderful machines.
The Chaingang Rotafixa S.p.A.is hard at work liberating glorious track bikes too long forgotten in dusty warehouses and back rooms of old artisan's workshops, restoring them to their old glory and racing them in the streets and on the few available tracks. We will gladly patch foreign fixed gear warriors into our slowly growing network of local fixed-gear artisans, so they can access the old track stuff we are gradually unearthing (collectors need not apply: we deal only with bike messengers and hardcore fixed gear riders that are clued-in on how to redline these beauties and that will bring them back into active service). We are also very keen on getting in touch with similar groups of urban track bike affictionados around the globe, so if you are interested in a bit of fixie networking please drop us a line at velocity@inventati.org
Velocity: the race
Velocity is a no holds barred alley cat race, an urban flight on two wheels through the streets of the city at dawn. The race is held twice a year (in summer and winter) on a course that consisits of a series of obligatory check-points and/or small circuits that can be connected in whichever way the individual participant sees fit. The course changes every time and in classic alley cat tradition the only rule is to pass through the checkpoints: other than that, anything goes
Velocity started in Milan with the first edition of the race taking place in October 2002, and it is now being staged regularly in Rome too.