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Everyone wants to get out and ride, but not everyone has an abundance of extra cash sitting around to grab the latest and greatest Fixie/single speed bike. So what to do? Well we decided to take Walmart up on its Mongoose Single Speed bike offer. Coming in at a reasonable $149.99 would this bargain prices bike give us the performance and satisfaction we were looking for? Let’s find out in Part 1 of our budget build.

First thing first, we found our donor bicycle at the local Walmart bike isle sporting all the consummate badges and sales tags one could stick on it. After giving it a once over, we noticed a small one inch scrape on the top tube. Being the savvy shoppers we are, we mentioned it to management. That eye spy moment turned into a $10 discount. Around a 7% right off the top, enough to cover taxes. Not too shabby. So we take our new pride and joy home to really get a better look.

This is what we have to work with.

General Impressions

Overall the bike looks decent. The black and white theme seems to carry well, however Mongoose has seen fit to apply 10 lbs of stickers to the bike. It feels busy as a result of all the safety items and visual effects they saw fit to add to it. It’s a tall frame. If your under 5’ 7” I would be weary. All the safety items are present and it even comes with a manual.

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We got time to meet up with Kim and her one off MaiHiro designed Se Draft that we featured last week to snap some shots.. Def a sick bike and we are glad we had the chance to work with Nakanari of MaiHiro and Velocity..
Update: click here for a full gallery!

Another weekend and another fun event in Saint Petersburg Florida. It was a big turnout for Fixed Fight 4 this Saturday at the cafe Bohemia. We were not able to make but thanks to Nick we got pictures of this event. Click here for more pictures

Back in December the word started spreading through out the web that there was a colab in the works with MaiHiro and Urban1cycle with the help of our buddies over at Velocity Wheels.. Well finally the pics are here! Check out Kim’s one off custom bike created by Nakanari from MaiHiro with his Ninja Spiki..

The custom design was taking over to Visual FX Solutions in Tampa to get wrapped.. the frame was done along with the Velocity Deep V wheels and headset.. Our friends over at 66Fixed.com relaced the wheels up and we were ready to go..





A full shoot with Kim and her bike coming over soon.. and some more suprises coming with the colab of Urban1cycle and MaiHiro coming soon!

We met up with Lauren and her dope custom built Pake from 66Fixed.. sportin a miche crank set, special edition Aerospoke’s just a few touches of her sick murdered out ride.. For more pics check out her gallery.

Coming Soon a sick photoshoot of Lauren and her ridiculous murdered out Pake.

FULL GALLERY AND SHOOT COMING SOON.. CHECK BACK!

Better late than never. After loosing all the current events info due to the virus, we finally found this flyer in our backup.

Race and polo in Saint Pete, Florida.

Well, we made it to this event on Sunday and it was pretty good turnout. We also will be posting video footage of this event very soon. In the meantime, for more pictures of the event go to our gallery.

Urban1Cycle met up with Rachael and her Motobicane Messenger..
To see more of her shoot.. go to Rachael’s Gallery

For more coverage please click here . Post updated 10/13/2009. Added more pics to the gallery.

Though it was really hot that day, lots of people showed up on all kinds of bikes.  There were games of polo going on, some BMX riders showing off, nice track and road bikes plus some interesting characters with crazy looking bikes.   For full gallery click here