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  • Image: Arden de Raaij

    Stefan Vis with his ulitmate street cred machine

    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.

  • Cycling back

    We already revealed some of the fixed bike’s history on our general info page , along with one of the first videos ever featuring the first recorded bike trick ever. Quite a must-see, that is. Here...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Stefan Vis at 24 Hour Race

  • 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.

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Tomas Gons at 24 Hour Race

  • pierski akbar at 24 Hour Race

  • Checkpoint Rotterdam at 24 Hour Race

  • 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...

  • Jeroen Blom at 24 Hour Race

  • 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...

  • 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?

  • speedy dee 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.
  • documentary short

    Blocter Fixed Gear

    A Blocter portrait of the man behind the RFG blog.
  • trick short

    Porcelain Bike Jump

    Bike fish in the water by Robert Bolwijn.

  • Chirico track bike

    Collection: Brick Lane Bikes, London

  • 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...

  • Ludo at 24 Hour Race

  • ruud lanfer at 24 Hour Race

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