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  • Exhibition: Mediamatic Bank at Duintjer CS

    Sur Place

    8
    May 2010
    22
    Aug 2010
    - Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...
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  • ergonomics
  • Sport
  • Urbanism
  • civilization
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  • Underground
  • speed
  • Design
  • fahrrad
  • theme surplace
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  • fixed gear
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  • fiets
  • bicycle
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  • Ergonomics
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  • Sur Place

    Exhibition on Urban Bike Culture

    Bring your bike for a ride through Mediamatic Bank and discover the rich culture that grew around a simple vehicle: the fixed gear bike. Sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other...

  • The making of Sur Place

    A short history of Sur Place + the fixed gear bike

    Where and when did the fixed gear bike originate? How did it end up at Mediamatic? How did the exhibition come into existence, and what does Sur Place even mean? Find the answers to all these burning...

  • The Sur Place Exhibition

    An introduction to our Sur Place collection.

    In collaboration with sportsmen, riders, messengers, collectors, artists and other bike lovers we gathered an admirable collection of fixed gear stuff. We hope to pass on their enthusiasm to you. You...

  • Mapping for Tourists

    MFT resulted in Noord, an exhibition and travel guide

    Noord is the result of a project initiated by Nat Muller and Mediamatic: Mapping for Tourists. 22 artists were invited to map Amsterdam-Noord, pars pro toto for The Netherlands. The artists lived and...

  • Photo Gallery

    Pictures of the Sur Place exhibition, opening party and other events. Here you can also find your own ikCam snapshots and rider portraits. Add your own pictures by uploading them to our network. Use...

  • Sur Place Events

    Workshops, salons, films and parties

    Great bike events all summer long. Become a fan of Sur Place and we'll update you regularly. It's that easy. All you have to do is bring your bike!

  • 3rd Round photos

    These photos were taken during the 3rd Round: the third meeting about fixed gear bikes. Here you can see proud owners and their bikes posing in front of Ottograph's work.

  • Amsterdam-Roubaix-Paris

    Fixed from Amsterdam to Paris

    From April 9th to April 16th, nineteen fixed gear riders will pedal their way to France to catch up with the cycling classic in Roubaix. In the capital city they will cool down and reload for the...

  • Bianchi

    Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London
  • documentary short

    Blocter Fixed Gear

    A Blocter portrait of the man behind the RFG blog.

  • Naldisney

    2008 Collection: Nalden from nalden.net

  • B.E.A.

    1960, Belgium Collection: Erik Boelen

  • Electric Bikes 2012

    Desirable pedalassisted bicycles

    I'm not an expert but I am an amateur of fine bikes. 2012 is the year in which the first fine electric bikes are appearing. Originally, they used to be for the elderly, the disabled and the lazy. Now

  • Stalen Ros

    Classic cycling show

    The classic cycling fair Stalen Ros took place last weekend in Neerkant. Read a report on the EHVFXD blog and watch some of Lorenzo Bassani's pictures on Flickr .

  • Round 1-6

    Tuesday night series on the developement of Sur Place.

    Between 9th of februari and the 20th of april Mediamatic organised the Rounds: An occasion for meeting, eating, planning and discussing the Sur Place project.

  • Race bike

    ca. 1910 Collection: Bob Casemier

  • Messenger bike

    1996 Collection: Paul Keller

  • Bontekoe track bike

    1955 Collection: Peter Ravensbergen
  • TV documentary

    Rotterdam Fixed Gear

    An introduction to Rotterdam Fixed Gear by Tenny Tenzer, for RTV Rijnmond.

  • Students mobile design project

    Fix Your iPhone app

    Mediamatic asked HvA students to design a prototype of an iPhone application in the context of the fixed gear exhibition. On this page, you can follow their work in progress. Assignment: "Make an...

  • Fixed on paper

    The web is so flooded with fixed gear reads and pictures that it is hard for a newbie not to get lost. For those looking for efficient and proper enlightenment, we have some good old-fashioned...
  • trick short

    Porcelain Bike Jump

    Bike fish in the water by Robert Bolwijn.

  • Sur Place Extra

    Information, pictures, links and more...

    All fixed gear resources on a pile for everyone wanting to increase their knowledge. Do you want to suggest other knowledge and footage? Let us know in a comment or mail mayken [at] mediamatic.net.

  • Claud Butler

    1957 Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

created Bas van den Broeke

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