Polo's Back!

Tonight's the first night of Philly bike polo for 2008 - YAY for spring!

Every Wednesday @ 7pm
Schuylkill River Park [the basketball courts]

See ya there!
-NerissaLauren

In west PHILADELPHIA born & raised:

We all love Will Smith and we adore bicycles, so it's safe to say that this is pretty much the best race in Philly all winter. Just meet at the Dog Bowl (43rd& Chester) at 2pm and party hard through the night.

You can preregister on the BLOG for free points!



-AILEEN

COG MAGAZINE

FEATURED ARTICLE: Bicycle Messengers of Tokyo, Japan
By Eli Chessen
Portraits by Yohei Morita

I had a chance to read through Cog's second issue a few days ago and was completely blown away by the photo journalism and in depth story telling articles. Being the first magazine of its kind with amazing photographs by one of the cycling community's most loved photographers Yohei Morita, i'd say it would be a wise investment.

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
COG Magazine
POBOX 1967
Milwaukee, WI 53201

414-520-9644
info[at]cogmag.com

日本語の問い合わせ先
japan[at]cogmag.com

Cog Magazine

& ON ANOTHER NOTE: check out Vapor's interesting choice for their cover. It clearly reflects their main interests in Skateboarding, Music, & Street Culture.

Thank You Trackosaurus Rex.

-DE VERA

SAN FRANCISCO TRACKIES

These are just a few photos I took over the course of the last two weeks at the Embarcadero.

-DE VERA

EIGTH ANNUAL BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 19, 2008

FOR MORE INFORMATION:
BICYCLE FILM FESTIVAL

This year's going to be amazing. If you havent already seen the Macaframa final trailer, it's available on CLIQUENMOVE on Channel 2. HD DVD SUMMER 08


Fast Fridays will also be among the film festival's line-ups. It premiered at Toyko's Film Festival event, last year in December.


FOR MORE INFORMATION:
FAST FRIDAY MOVIE
MACAFRAMA

-DE VERA

Philly > LBC

I'm so glad I don't ride in Long Beach.



"girls should stick to townies"
In Philly, girls win at foot-down, and they ride with the boys just fine.

Could you boys ride through some real traffic? or keep up with messengers? fuck this - i'm high, bored, and homesick.

Love,
Nerissa

dear readers,
prime examples of douche bags. elitists with no reason or right.

- DE VERA

OBEY Douche Bag Track Bike

I don't even know where to start.  Its a beautiful color-way and a fairly nice build with suitable components.  Yet, I still cant find the heart to like it.  Maybe because OBEY is taking advantage of their grand opportunity to profit off of a growing "trendy" like popularity circulating the track world.  Maybe because they decided to mix Fuji Japanese frames with Miche Italian cranks and English saddles or maybe, just maybe because of its well marketed advertising ploy set out to ruin a culture.  Well not exactly ruin. Those who ride should remember that this culture was based on riding, regardless of what it was.  Contradicting myself, I just realized that I shouldn't bother knocking OBEY's efforts to get hip kids riding ... but its too late.  So in conclusion, if you bought it, ride it.  If you haven't revaluate your reasons.

Either way, this bike will give you 0 street cred gold stars & draw stares from both approving and disapproving faces .. but mostly disapproving. 

FOR MORE INFO:

Fuji

Obey Giant

OBEY

-DE VERA

WAY BACK

You dont see many messengers like this anymore. I wonder where this guy is now...

-JOSHUA

The 2nd Annual Super Market Street Sweep

STARTING LINE
THE BOW & ARROW
DECEMBER 8,2007
HIGH NOON, 12p


Finish Line Party – 4:00pm at The Gestalt

3159 16th Street - Valencia & Guerrero

Points
: Bring back the most items from 5 grocery stores. In the event of a tie in the POINTS category, the faster time will win.
Fastest
: Buy food from 5 grocery stores at top speed. Be the FASTEST Girl or Boy.
What to Bring
Bag: box, crate or whatever you rock to the grocery store, and a lock and money to purchase items (suggested $20-30, anything you are comfy with, everything helps). All items will be donated to the San Francisco Food Bank.

for more info:
JKOSHI

-DE VERA

THANK TRACKOSAURUS REX

Tracko from Trackosaurus Rex on Vimeo.

for more info:
TRACKOSAURUS REX

-DE VERA

B-more

So next weekend will be a trip to B-more for the Philly B&A crew. Resoning behind this roadtrip include: Shop Gentei's winter alley cat "the alphabet race", followed by [of course] a party, some Natty Bo, and then the Baltimore premiere of MASH SF's new video.

MORE INFO:
Shop Gentei
The Alphabet Race
MASH SF
Natty Bo

Love,
Nerissa

good clean bicycle fun

So - there's a video project being thrown together as we speak [or you read, w/e] about fixed riders around the country. But that's it - a video project, not a documentary, not a film, just raw video footage. I think this is pretty swell.



Bootleg Sessions will not be a "film." It will be a down and dirty DVD compilation of cuts from several of our favorite riders from around the U.S. who have agreed to bootleg their daily sessions, progressions, and general post-transportation tomfoolery. It is not meant to be ground-breaking, life-changing, trend-setting, or scene-defining. It's just fun. Ride/Relax.

For more info: www.bootlegsessions.net

-Nerissa

"FUCK THIS GUY"

Mixed opinions have been circling the oh so talented Keo of the up and coming Cadence film documentary. I dont really have an opinion just yet. I've always been about the riding myself. I dont know, i might be jealous, but i dont know.

Im heading back to LA in two weeks, so if anyone is down to ride ... let me know.

DEVERA aka dynamite? who knows ...

oh and please avoid coffees at four in the a.m.

ridiculous

-DYNAMITE!

MASH INTRODUCTION

The MASH introduction is available for your viewing pleasure.


for more info check out
their updated webiste:
MASH SF

July 1st: LOS ANGELES Bicycle Film Festival FINAL DAY & BLOCK PARTY

click:

Tomorrow's the last & final event at the Los Angeles BFF, the Block Party. If you didnt go to the Film Festival you should try to make it to the party

for ticket info:
Bicycle Film Festival

-DYNAMITE!

Critical Mass Friday // LA & LB

DESCIPTION:
Critical Mass is a monthly bicycle ride to celebrate cycling and to assert cyclists' right to the road.

The idea started in San Francisco in September 1992 and quickly spread to cities all over the world.

Critical Mass has a different flavor from city to city -- there's a big variety in size, respect of traffic laws (or lack thereof), interaction with motorists, and intervention by police. So if you want to know more about Critical Mass, you'll really need to find out what your local ride is like.

Critical Mass has no leaders, and no central organization licenses rides. In every city that has a CM ride, some locals simply picked a date, time, and location for the ride and publicized it, and thus the ride was born.

CM is an idea and an event, not an organization.

Some CM riders try to tie up traffic as much as possible and be otherwise confrontational with motorists. Such riders are missing the point about Critical Mass. CM is a celebration of cycling, not a war against motorists. CM is about asserting our right to the road, not denying others their right to the road. Those who want to play juvenile games are encouraged to stay at home instead.

Who? Cyclist, Bike-owners, Bicycle Enthusiasts
What? Los Angeles & Long Beach Critical Mass
Where? Los Angeles Critical Mass meets at Wilshire/Western // Long Beach Commuter Bike Station; 105 The Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802
When? Last Friday of EVERY month, 7 PM
Why? Because they love bicycles


LOS ANGELES

Date:
Friday, September 29, 2006
Repeat Type:
Monthly,Days=-1FR
Time:
6:00pm-8:00pm PDT
Duration:
2 hours
Category:
road (slower)
Created by:
Lars Lehtonen
Directions:
Los Angeles Critical Mass meets at Wilshire/Western
Updated:
Thursday, September 28, 2006 3:21pm GMT

LONG BEACH

Date:
Friday, September 29, 2006
Repeat Type:
Monthly,Days=-1FR
Time:
7:00pm-9:00pm PDT
Duration:
2 hours
Category:
road (slower)
Created by:
Lars Lehtonen
Updated:
Saturday, September 23, 2006 10:42pm GMT
Event URL:
http://www.myspace.com/lbcritmass
Directions:
Long Beach Commuter Bike Station;
105 The Promenade, Long Beach, CA 90802
Map URL: http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b316/joebiker1326/critmass.gif
Event Contact:
Contact Email: lbcritmass@yahoo.com]

for more info:
Bike Boom

-DYNAMITE!

Bicycle Film Festival - LOS ANGELES

click:


The Bicycle Film Festival set their date in LA; June 28 through July 1.

Buy a pass because the whole program
is amazing.

for ticket info:
Bicycle Film Festival

Also, check out the REBIKE project that the Bicycle Film Festival is doing with PUMAand a few magazines to raise money for Bicycle Kitchen and other similar groups in North America.

-DYNAMITE!

The MASH World Premiere

ive never seen so many fixies in one place before. if i had to write a review it would probably consist of 40's, budd, & an entertaining film. FREE FREE FREE .. yeah, both showings were free and if you had boosties then you would have gotten the deep v's & tires being thrown into the crowd. pretty fun night at the Victoria Theatre.

excuse the quality, the only camera i had on me was my Holga.





hats off to everyone involved with MASH.

-DYNAMITE!

HUFQUAKE STICKERS FOR YOUR FIXIE

Benny Gold, designer of that infamous Hufquake pattern, helped in the latest colaboration between Jovantae Turner, Huf, & Fatlace. Sold as a sticker set and look best on Deep V's ;].


info provided by:
Gold Daily

-DYNAMITE!