Welcome to trackdropouts a community of fixed gear riders based in Bristol, the raddest place on planet earth to ride a bicycle. Find news and information in the blog about the Bristol scene, recent happenings and incriminating footage of forum members. Check the forum, for local meets, rides that involve a lung destroying climb, classifieds, and general bike related natter.

tdo Kit

As a few of you may have noticed the thread to start ordering the new tdo kit has gone up on the forum, so we thought that you might like some pictures to help persuade you! Steve and myself braved some brisk northerly winds to do a shoot with Brad...

BÖIKZMÖIND premiere announced.

The premiere of BÖIKZMÖIND has recently been announced as Saturday 20th August. This is going to be awesome, rumor also has it that the tdo crew is planning Bristols biggest fixed gear bbq before hand, everyone to bring a disposable and there choice of food and beer. Definitely not a...

Local rider & photographer Brad Bishop.

Local photographer Brad Bishop has been putting out some great stuff lately, contributing photos to trackdropouts, and rumor has it the upcoming boikzmoind booklet. He’s currently working on “Project 50″, 50 shots in 50mm in 50 days. If your yet to see his work head over to http://bishopspocket.co.uk, or over...
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Fix up Friday

I keep looking for stuff to post that is fixed related for you on a Friday that you may have not seen before. I mean could post some cool stuff from Trako or 14bike co etc. But I want something that you can’t get from them. Go bomb a hill today, it can’t be a...

UCi Track World Championships

UCi Track World Championships are over. Sir Chris Hoy & Azizulhasni Awang in the Mens Keirin final. A crazy wheelie style at the end for Awang but ones that gets him to the line faster. The event showed some outstanding riding from all the countries involved. And here we have the full results. Women’s individual...

Swansea Alley cat

It was the second Alleycat the chaps in Wales had set out to organises and this was a bit more on the simple side for us out of town riders. No hard to find welsh roads that no-one from the right side of the bridge can’t read or say, no little short cuts that you...

Fix up Fridays

It’s Friiiiiiiiiiidddddddddddday at last. So here is something for the weekend.

UCi Track World Championships 2010

This Wednesday hails the start of the UCi Track World Championships 2010 in Copenhagen. Full coverage we be shown on BBC2 from Wednesday thru to Sunday. I should think if you don’t get time, are at work, or the wife wants to watch some mind numbing soap and you can get the use of your...

Turning Japanese

I had an email from our old friend Yohei the other day to say that he had seen the blog updates when checking the site out at home in Japan. So with that in mind I thought I would post these photos of our old friend out riding his bike in shibamata Tokyo. Of note...

Bristol Bike project

The winter weather may have reduced our cycling miles however it has not reduced our cycling obsessed minds. Every two weeks the guys at the www.thebristolbikeproject.org have been opening the doors and letting the trackdropout.com members in to use the facilities and tools for a small charge which could be as small as 50p or...

Track love

Wow it has been a long time since we had any type of update on the blog and to tell the truth is anyone still reading this? I understand if not I mean we should up date it more. Well I hope that is going to change now it looks like the good weather is...

London Calling

After hatching the great idea of a trip to London the date were booked, the riders sorted and the car racked borrowed. As the day grew near the weather reports looked increasingly grim so surprisingly the list of riders got shorter and then some dropped out due to technical bike issues. However some people would...

Cheddar.

This was a few months ago, James, Adam, George, Andy and Myself all hopped on our bikes for a Sunday slog to Cheddar, we pretty much picked the worst day as it was the beginning of super rain season. We arrived to find the village pretty unoccupied so we all got a roast dinner and...

Farewell Yohei.

Shame to see you go man, thanks for hanging out this summer… Good luck in the future, safe flight home and we hope to see you again some day. Team Dropouts. X

From Japan with love.

Could never get on with messenger style bags so i thought i would try one of these, Thanks Japan.