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  • Image: Arden de Raaij

    Willem with his blue RIH

    These are the fixed gear enthusiasts who help giving shape to the Sur Place exhibition. The portraits were taken at our Tuesday night gatherings.
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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...

  • 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.

  • Bike manufacturers

    An overview of (fixed) frame builders

    These are the bicycle menders we look up to. We exhibit bikes of all different bike brands. On this page you can find information about specific bicycle menders. For the complete bicycle collection...

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • RIH track bike for Peter Post

    late 1960s Collection: RIH Sport

  • Tutorial time

    The fixed gear culture is all about do-it-yourself. That is why workshops will form an indispensable part of our exhibition program. Suggestions and requests are always welcome. In the meantime, you...

  • Custom bikes on show

    At the moment, we are dreaming up a list of beautiful and rare bicycles to put in our exhibition window. You can follow our research here This Spring, Mediamatic will not be the only art institution...

  • RIH experiment after "Old Faithful"

    late 90's Collection: RIH Sport Amsterdam

  • Spoke Cards

    Alleycats' little momentos

    Spoke cards serve to identify alleycat racers, like numbers on a runner's uniform. Riders stick laminated cards between the spokes of the back wheel. After the finish, the cards are often kept as...

  • 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...

  • Chirico track bike

    Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • speedy dee at 24 Hour Race

  • Fixed gear cycling

    Just another postmodern subculture, courtesy of Generation Y?

    The fixie subculture lacks the political dimension that characterized subversive subcultures of the past. What is it trying to communicate?

  • ruud lanfer at 24 Hour Race

  • 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

  • Checkpoint Rotterdam at 24 Hour Race

  • 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...
  • trick short

    Porcelain Bike Jump

    Bike fish in the water by Robert Bolwijn.

  • Tomas Gons at 24 Hour Race

  • documentary short

    Blocter Fixed Gear

    A Blocter portrait of the man behind the RFG blog.

  • Jeroen Blom at 24 Hour Race

  • 24 Hour Race: een terugblik

    1 mei ging de 24 Hour Race van start. Om 17.30 reden 55 fietskoeriers en andere fietsfanaten bij Mediamatic Bank weg. Elf keerden er terug. Ze deden Rotterdam, Breda, Den Bosch en Middelburg aan.

  • pierski akbar at 24 Hour Race

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