CYCLING WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Monday, June 3, 2013

To fail or not to fail, that is the question..

Yup, it's a fail:

Bici Bicycle shop in the great state of California however, is most certainly not a fail:

BOI-YO-YO-YO-YO-YOING!!!

Thursday, May 30, 2013

More from Tultepec..

A little love in the form of a boyfriend shielding his girlfriend from the onslaught of flaming projectiles:

..and a little hate during one of two brutal beat downs I witnessed that night:

Def not my best technical work but I suppose something’s better than nothing. Happened so quick!

More soon..

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Best BMX trick vid I've seen in a while!

..well, at least the best farting around one anyways:

Couple more from Tultepec..

Still working on these sporatically. I've still got at least like 15ish to go. Enjoy:

Really looking forward to working on the gopro vids I have from that night!

Saturday, May 25, 2013

Bike Fetish Day Postponed to Sunday May 26th - TOMORROW!!!

The weather is going to be shit today so they've decided to move the festivities to tomorrow May 26th. Which is cool cause it's my birthday :-)

From the City Reliquary site:

Bike Fetish Day

MOVED TO SUNDAY DUE TO YUCKY WEATHER!!!

SUNDAY, May 26th, 12noon – 6pm

Havemeyer street between Hope & Grand streets.

FREEEEE!

IT’S A BLOCK PARTY FOR YOUR BICYCLE! The 9th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day features biking activities, bike competitions, bike rides, bicycle advocacy groups and artists selling their wares. With a BBQ grill and more, you couldn’t miss this yearly celebration of all things bicycle.

Bring Your Bikes Because We’ve Got Prizes!!!

Contests include: Best Vintage Bike, Best Shiny Bike, Best Family Bike, Best Mutant Bike, Best in Show and much more! Win great bike prizes donated by: Outlier Tailored Performance, Velo Brooklyn Bushwick Bike Shop, Affinity Cycles, and maybe, possibly, hopefully a bicycle or two.

Schedule for Bike Prizes:

Judging starts at 2pm

2:45: best vintage bike

3:15: Best Mutant Bike

3:45: Best Commuter

4:15: Best Handmade

4:45: Best Small Wheel

5:15: Best Ugly Bike

5:45: Best in Show

Cycling, Artists, and informational booths including:

BIKENY, Transportation Alternatives, Times UP!, Taliah Lempert Bicycle Paintings, Outlier Tailored Performance, POW! Neighbors Allied for Good Growth, Coast Cycles, MER Bags, d’emploi, Horse Cycles, Velo Brooklyn, Vaya Bike Products, Bicycle donated by NYC Bikes AND MORE. Want a table? Contact Bill Scanga at bill@cityreliquary.org

BMX tricks courtesy of POST Bike shop.

Performances by: DJ Tinseltown.

See you there!!!!!!!!!!!

Friday, May 24, 2013

Just a few weird and rad bike photos..

Also, Bike Fetish Day in brooklyn on Havermeyer is tomorrow! Although the weather is not looking too good right now which is a major bummer since I always look forward to said awesome event..

Anyways, here's the weird and rad bikes I mentioned:

Hope everyone (by everyone I mean the like 5 people who still read this blog) enjoys the weekend! Especially if it's not as shit out for you as we're expecting it to be here..

Thursday, May 23, 2013

OMFG YES! LIFE SIZE STAR WARS X-WING FIGHTER MADE ENTIRELY OF LEGOS IN TIMES SQUARE NOW!!

SO going to check this out tomorrow morning before work:

I'm def dorking out over the whole construction method/size and materials more than the subject matter. THo I could think of less rad things to emulate with legos..

It's up until this Saturday so be sure to check it out soon. The weather is shit right now but hopefully we'll catch a break soon and or they keep it up a bit longer..

Also, I finished a killer new rack recently and will be posting it shortly. Just waiting for some free time and nice light to photograph it :-)

Friday, May 10, 2013

Brooklyn Bike Jumble TOMORROW RAIN OR FUCKING SHINE!!!

Also, check this wicked old shit out:

Also-also, check this out too!!:

Absolutely fucking amazing..

Thursday, May 9, 2013

Wow do ever I fucking LOVE this video from Pure Fix Cycles and Plutonium!!

Plutonium x Pure Fix Cycles from Pure Fix Cycles on Vimeo.

Naturally my first reaction was:

But then I was like:

Why? I'm glad you asked! Let me explain:

The reason I love the video is because it just so happens that I have something along a similar tone, or wait, is what they're doing along a similar tone to me?? I mean really, spray painted everything, fire, black and orange- come on! Then again staten island is actually rates far lamer than Jersey by people who don't know fuck all about Jersey because if they did, let me tell you we'd be up there! Oh and let's not forget that:

I DON'T WORK WITH GARBAGE..

No but seriously, I'm putting together a new locker/beater bike rebuild of sorts with lots of fun new parts, a fresh new rack and yup, you guessed it, black and orange spray painted parts. But don't worry, believe it or not, I haven't really given much away. Aside from the fact that this shit is going to irevicably ANNIHILATE the living shit out of that PIECE OF FUCKING SHIT that for some ungodly reason warranted yet another barf in mouth worthy video..

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Gnarly BMX vid from Nike..

Nike Batalla BCN a BMX video by Nike Action

Thanks Lyle!

Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Brooklyn Bike Jumble NEXT WEEKEND!!!

Holy crap this came up super fast this year:

SAVE YO MONEY!!!

Oh and you can sell stuff too..

I've been working this wicked, wicked, easy freelance job the last few weeks but I have hella stuff cookin'..

Today I find out if the seat I've been keeping warm for the drunkard who broke his hip falling down some stairs will need physical rehabilitation etc or not. I'm assuming yes but we'll see. Hoping for at least another few weeks!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

BMX Tall Bikes at Woodward!

I guarantee they would've shredded WAY harder on one of my mini talls. Still, looked pretty fun and scary..

Thanks Liam!

Also, here's a grid of Instagrams from the Stanley Kubrick exhibit at LACMA in LA:

It's running til June so be sure to check it out! So awesome!!

Speaking of awesome, check out this sick ass chopper seen in Silverlake:

Dude rode by us a little later and it was loud as fuck. Certainly not for the faint of heart!

Monday, March 25, 2013

Catch up post and Heading to LA this week!!

Dag, a month past already with no posts from yours truly- FORESHAME!

Then again, shipping out that round of 52 ebay items right before my trip really fucking slayed me. Been trying to catch up with all things interwebz since I got back..

Speaking of the trip, as some of you may know a friend and I went to Mexico City to document this kick ass festival just north of the city. More details on that once I've gotten off my ass to finish editing the photos and start the arduous process of retouching them. I shot a video too which is pretty. fucking. gnarly.

Here's something I made special for the trip just to give you an idea:

Pretty funny huh? I needed some proper face/head protection so I opted for a skateboard helmet with a motorcycle helmet's flip up face shield. As kooky as it looks, and even kookier to wear in a large mosh pit style crowd full of underage mexican hipsters, it worked perfectly. Like, perfect-perfect. I took many a blow to the head and face and came out completely unscathed. Thought it's a shame I can't say the same for my welt covered body, hehe- OUCHIES!!!

Okay, at this point you're like WTF are you talking about already so here's a quick teaser shot:

Basically, it was like being in a really fun war zone..

TOTALLY WANT TO GO AGAIN NEXT YEAR!!!

But that's all I can divulge for the moment since I'd like to make a bit more headway with the entire project before revealing much more. It most certainly is deserving of a massive post of it's own..

Next week I'll be heading to the City of Angels with the lady to have a little vaca time together and check out the city. I went once about 12-13 something years ago but it's been far too long. Here's an oldie goldie selfie from the flower fields which I'm hoping to re-visit during the trip..

Any advice on where to go, see and do be sure to holler at me. Esp if you have one of those dispensary access cards! Seeing as how I've never orally ingested marijuana I'd fancy partaking in that sort of thing. Not to mention smuggling/mailing some of that shit back home! Granted I have no idea if that's even possible but I'd like to think that it is. I'm praying akshually. All I know is that someone needs to lend me a bike or two or tandem and get me stoney baloney :-D

Anyways, check out what I stumbled upon in the H&M display window at the Garden State Plaza:

lol right? So weird. I mean, I get their motivations behind it but it was totally bizarre seeing that at a mall in Jersey. I guess this means that THE TARCK BIKE IS NOT DEAD after all! More on that here..

Oh and did anyone else notice this sexy gold naggie..?

Speaking of gold, anybody one want to go thirds with me on this set??

Hoping the next owner of this mofo has enough sense to get some super sweet airbrushing on the rear wheel:

For more dopiness be sure to scope out this, this, this, this (the Medici), and ZOMG THIS!!!

lol..

I could keep going but I think that's going to be all for now..

More soon and don't forget to hit me up LA people!!

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