BOTTLE TRAPS

Mmmmm...
Look what I just go from AMAZON.COM. I saw a quick write up of this on http://urbanvelo.org/ about a month a go. I'll write something up after I've used them for a little bit.

sk8 & destroy

I love adventures. Please enjoi this video as I have.

Riding The Long White Cloud - Trailer from friendlyfire on Vimeo.

Great Vid.

I just found this fixie video. I love it. Great music, shot in an artful way, and nobody is trying to grind or do any BMX tricks. Just smooth, classic, track tricks that are over 100 years old.

nice.

A Taste of The Toast from MikeL on Vimeo.

TERROR TRAIL 2K10

Untill about two weeks ago I had completely forgotten about this "foot race" I had signed up for with a budy.

Then I got a call, "Hey, wanna go check out the course with me?"

Oh yeah...that thing I signed up for at that place I crash on my mountain bike all the time.

The day before the race I was super cranky. Why the fuck did I sign up for running!? I ride bikes, I don't run, running is sooo stupid, I kept thinking and saying out loud as my girlfriend can contest. I was bitchy and unhappy with the little perpetration I had had. I knew the course, I ride it all the time, and I knew how hard this was going to be.

Time to sign in. As my buddy and I were standing in line talking with other people, some of whom were legit runners, others looking for a short race close to home. NOBODY had seemed to have been out to the course...EVER. They had no idea how hilly and rocky and just plan crazy this place was. Some of the switch backs go straight up, or straight down, loaded with roots and loose rocks.
As I explained the course to at least 5 different people I saw the rainbow of emotions. Joy, excitement, dread, and even a little fear. As I explained it, "it would be as if we ran through the parking lot, having to run up and down ever hood of ever car while softball sized rocks were tossed under your feet".

After being shuttled to the course on an old school bus, I began to run, I was amazed that I was ahead of most of the heat. We ran about 2/3 a mile down a road until with hit the single track, and I knew once I hit the dirt I'd be way better off than running on the pavement. Once in the woods my buddy took off and I was left to witness all the blood splattered decorations the race organizers had lined the course with. I thought I was doing OK until I hit a fork in the road. Rather than going right like I was suppose to. I kept going straight, until I realized there were no markers. SHIT. Turning around and running like hell to get back to the fork, I another racer. I made it back to the right spot, having burring too much energy to get back I took it easy most of the way back.


Turns out, I got second in my division! Crap, I thought, I was just happy to be out there. On the drive home it hits me, I would have won if I had not headed down the wrong way. The fellow race I had found ended up winning. O-well.

I had a blast, met some really rad and fast people. Tons of great food after. Not your usually health nut stuff either. I'm talking BBQ meatballs, hot dogs, and some really good guacamole!!

GOOD TIMES, I'll be back next year.

ART & BIKES ONE.

I'm sure this won't be the only kind of art & bike thing I post. Well I guess it's not, being that I posted that seat a few days ago. I love this kind of thing. Really simple, music is tolerable, and it's not really trying to be anything.

404 Beach from Carson Ting on Vimeo.

Cyclocross...haha

HAHA I actually have this issue. The pics are super rad, Tim Johnson doesn't look to happy though. Whatever, get over it.

Men's Journal Magazine May 2010 Cyclocross Fashion Shoot from Dylan Coulter on Vimeo.

Little 500.

I completely forgot this race even exsited. It's a strange race held ever year at the University of Indiana. Think hillbilly rely-track race. Each person does a few laps, trades off to a teammate for 500 laps.

The bikes a single speed road bikes with coaster brakes, sorry kids no fixies here. It's a pretty rad event. You should all check out the movie, BREAKING AWAY. That race is in there, it's a classic. Plus you can see the new Freddy Kruger as a teenager, he's the super short one.

Looks like someone set up a Flickr for this too. GO CUTTERS!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/48693442@N02/

CUSTOM SEAT

A few pics of a seat I just made.

CO-OP

This place is pretty rad and there is a place like this here in Chicago, called working bikes, http://workingbikes.org/ I'm really happy places like this exist at all. From my experiance working in shops, a lot of old slightly out dated stuff gets either forgotten about or tossed out. I can't even count how many bikes I could have made from all the spare parts.

So if your a shop, please donate old stuff to these places.

A bike is a bike.

Bike Church Web Profile 1 from The Cinematic Syndicate on Vimeo.

Here is some bike type art. I'm working on a custom painted seat right now. Maybe that will be up by the end of the weekend.

Mmmm...Trek?

This is something I've had for a while now. I thought I should share with the rest of the world.

As I've spent half my life working in various bike shops through the invention of grip-shift, to the commonality of carbon-fiber. One things seems to have remained the same. Customers coming in acting like they know bikes, asking "well isn't Trek the best brand? Aren't they all made in America?"

NOT HARDLY. Trek is a brand just like any other company. They have good a bad products just like everyone else. NO, they aren't made in the good 'ol USA. In fact they were probably one of the 1st companies to be out sourced to GIANT Bicycles. Who make like 75% of everyone's low to mid range frames.

This picture is just shows that the major companies are generally manufactured in the same place. Notice the Trek/Specialized tire a friend received over the winter.

Stop asking if Trek makes the best bikes, they just felt sorry for what happened to Lance when he was on Cofidis. Really I think their bikes are kinda ugly, bad logo,no sense of industrial design.