A non-motorized two-wheeling pro partners up to style a vehicle with four wheels
Two-Wheel Tuesday is typically filled with vehicles that employ a motor to get from Point A to Point Awesome. This time, however, we’re taking a quick look at a professional whose ride of choice has one gear and no engine. Sure, a fixed gear bike is usually the first sign that you’re dealing with a super hipster, but Michael Chacon takes advantage of a different skill set. One that doesn’t involve mustache growing, vintage photography, or PBR sipping.
Chacon is pretty skilled when it comes to flipping around on his bicycle. He teamed up with ID Agency to produce a one-of-a-kind Ford Focus for SEMA. Don’t worry, dear reader, there is no need for a barf bag when it comes to this custom creation. In fact, this might be the most tasteful vehicle in all of Las Vegas.
Keep reading to watch a short video showing Chacon sharing his skills, and the Focus coming together. Also, we’ve got the full spec sheet for you to peruse.
2012 FORD FOCUS – By The ID Agency
Base Vehicle:
- 2012 Ford Focus SE 5-Door
- 2.0L Ti-VCT direct-injection I4 engine
- 5-speed manual transmission
Powertrain
- MagnaFlow cat back exhaust
- AEM cold-air intake
- Lucas Oil
Chassis
- Brembo big brake kit
- KW Variant 3 Coilovers
Wheels & Tires
- HRE Performance C90 19″x 8.5″ wheels
- Toyo Proxes T1 Sport 225/40/18 tires
- Muteki lug nuts
Exterior
- Downforce carbon fiber lip kit
- BASF paint
- VLED custom LED headlight assembly
- Wraptivo carbon fiber roof
- Ford Licensed Accessories bike rack by Thule
- Custom Leader x KVA stainless fixed gear “Michael Chacon” signature edition bike
Interior
- RECARO Sportster CS Seats
- Top Stitch Upholstery interior
- KICKER car audio system built by BP Auto Sound
- Integrated iPad2 within audio system
SPONSORS
- Lucas Oil
- HRE Wheels – www.hrewheels.com
- Brembo Brakes – www.brembo.com/us
- Recaro
- Street Concepts
- Downforce
- VLEDs
- BASF
- KW
- AEM
- Toyo Tire
- Top Stitch Upholstery – www.topstitchupholstery.net
- Magnaflow Exhaust Systems – www.magnaflow.com
- The ID Agency – www.theidagency.com
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Amazingly not Ford's first foray into the idea of two wheel transportation. They debuted an E-Bike in Frankfurt earlier this year although they have no plan to market nor distribute it in the near future.
http://www.at.ford.com/news/cn/Pages/Ford%20Rides…
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Pro fixed gear rider? Give me a break. Seriously that absolutely reeks of hipster appeal and a desperate attempt to push a mediocre car.
Erm, you do know that single-speed bikes are the raciest of race, right?
obviously not.
Yeah, I was hoping to stimulate rather than educate. I find it strange to be the one defending fixies, but I realize that it's not the equipment that's douchey, it's who's putting it to work.
I hear that. As a former cyclist I have to ask. Why?
Was that for me? If so, I'll take a whack at it. They're like the sprint cars of the bike world. Explosive power in a short course with more tech than you would expect, but mostly useless outside of their home world. In my opinion, that's what makes the fixie hipster horrible. They eschew advantages like multiple gearsets and brakes, which make bicycle use in an urban setting awesome, in the name of – well, I guess that's the crux of it. I don't really know why. Now, I've been known to commute occasionally in cars with so much cam overlap they sounded like each cylinder only fired every three revolutions or so, so I get the race hardware on the street bit, but I just don't get the superior attitude and ugly behavior that seems to go with the more extreme hipster cyclists.
I know they are the thing for time trials. They are the stripped out equivalents of race cars – less stuff equals less weight. There are some folks that like to play with them in NYC, which is flat.Throw a hill in the mix and it seems they would be stupid and dangerous. Blow your knees out on the way up, and no brakes on the way down.When I was 4 my first bike was a fixie. Not because I was cool, but because it was cheap. Never again. I just don't get these things for the street.
Let's see how well his bicycle rides with its tyres stretched over it like that.
I hate stretched tyres. Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it should.
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I agree, but I am surprised there is that much stretch with these numbers:
HRE Performance C90 19″x 8.5″ wheels
Toyo Proxes T1 Sport 225/40/18 tires
I ran 225s on an 8.5" wide wheel once, (fender issues on aftermarket wheels) and it wasn't stretched nearly that much. Just a tiny bit of angle that was barely perceptible. I have 245s on there now, and they have a straight, flat sidewall.
Surely it's the 18" tyre on the 19" rim that does it, unless there's a typo going on…. and Hooniverse doesn't do that sort of thing.
Somehow I managed to miss that… That can't be right at all.
I really like that shade of green!
Ford sold a Kona edition Focus a while back that came with a bike.
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I understand that 95% of what they did to the car is non-functional and largely for advertising purposes, but fuel system cleaner being added to a brand new car?
Someone with "dragon" in their name certainly knows the types of shenanigans the UAW guys pull at the engine assembly plant.
I'm wondering what sort of idiot puts a carbon fiber sticker over the roof, though.
I had my name first. Curse you interwebz!
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HREs on a focus are kind of like magnums on an innie, aren't they?