Commencal always seem to be trying something a bit different and true to form they’ve gone and brought out their first ‘Urban’ bike. Nope – not a street bike or a BMX. An actual street bike. For riding to work, cruising down the pub or thrashing around the estate.

When I moved to the bike smoke I got a bit excited about my commuter bike and in a perverse way spent a lot of time turning a ratty 70’s racer into a stealth street race weapon.  Much as I hate to admit it, racing yuppies to work is f-ckin great fun and I’ve probably risked my neck more times at 9am than when I’ve been downhill racing! Anyway this Babylon thing looks like a pretty good way to beat the fixy tw-ts…

Apparently the Babylon is a bit of a ‘concept’ bike for Commencal – which usually means it was built for a bit of a jolly up. This one was apparently inspired by the Scandanavian and Japanese Commencal fans. There’s going to be 2 models, 1 black and 1 white. The white version will be a bit posher and feature Shimano Shadow kit, tarty leather grips and a carbon fork whilst the ghetto black version will be a bit lower spec with Deore, alloy fork etc. Both bikes will have Juicy 3’s, 700C wheels, fender and rack mounts, Truvativ Cranks, Alex rims and Kenda tyres. 

It might be a wee bit posh to leave locked up outside the pub on a friday night but it’s going to be hell of a good for racing those yuppies in their high-vis jackets on the way to work!

http://www.commencal.com/news/concept/babylon/commencal_babylon_en.htm

And a clip of everyone’s favourite bicycle courier:

Spaced – Tyres

Oh ok – they aint that bad. Here’s a rad fixie vid from Charge:

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