Slow posting this one!
My good friend Amar pointed ‘Made in Queens’ out to me yonks ago and it looks most excellent! The picture above says it all really - NY kids strapping speakers to BMXs - ingenious.
Read more over at the daily read - Creative Review blog.
If you like bikes as much as i do you’ll lose hours perusing the virtual museum that speedbicycles has created. Above are a few snapshots (by no means highlights, just a few grabs) of an ottusi pista, an Andy Hampsten eddy merckx special Motorola Alpe D’Huez racer, and a gitane aero racer… If you appreciate good design/typography/engineering you’ll enjoy this site. highly recommended.
Tomorrow (5th July) the hardest bike race in the world will start once again. The BBC gives us the former tour winner Stephen Roche, Britain’s Sean Yates and British cycling supremo Dave Brailsford, and their views ahead of this years tour.
In another interview, Mark Cavendish looks ahead positively: “it is more than feasible [one, two, or three stage wins], I’m the fastest there at the end of a bike race…”
Fighting talk from Britain’s best, bring on the Tour! or in the words of Udo Bölts, who rode 12 consecutive Tours de France: “Quäl dich, du Sau” [words of encouragement to a cracking Jan Ulrich, literally: "torture yourself, you pig", nice]
Vans are in the process of releasing a range of shoes and saddlebags designed with fixie riders in mind. The usual cotton canvas has been replaced with a ballistic nylon (love that description), which means they should be ultra hard-wearing. If they had any sense they would also use a harder compound for the sole, or insert a harder section behind the ball of the foot, so it’s stiffer in the toe clip; but we’ll see. I personally really like the white version. They all have 3M reflective patches, which may or may not help a car see you hurtling down a hill, brakeless, at 40kmh. the white version gets thescrapbook seal of approval.
all pics courtesy of crooked tongues.
“As a longtime supporter of, and innovator in, the bike community, PUMA is happy to present the I-Cycle Film Series produced by Daniel Leeb of Cinecyle Productions. This collection of short films is dedicated to exploring bike culture and its influencers.
Featuring today’s trailblazers of the two-wheeled community, this film series talks about the importance of biking and the impact this simple activity has on the world we live in. For the production of these films, we followed guys who look at their bikes as more than just a mode of transportation.
The advocates we pedaled alongside include: Matthew McGuinness, a cofounder of The 62, a Brooklyn-based art collective who started Re-Bicycle; George Bliss, the man behind New York’s Pedi-cabs; Brendt Barbur, founder of The Bicycle Film Festival; Matthew Modine, actor and founder of Bicycle-For-A-Day and finally, Antonio Bertone, PUMA’s CMO, who much like the men above, finds pure joy in cycling to work every morning. “
Team Slipstream (British Champion - David Millar’s team) will be riding the new FELT AR1 frames at the Tour de france this year, and they are gorgeous. Unusually for a road bike they feature aggressive aero tubing and a cut-out, almost time trial like down tube to ease the air over the rear wheel. Should be interesting to see how they get on in the mountains!! if they use them throughout the tour.
beautiful!!! i want one!
see more bike porn over at cycling news.
Some crazy exhibition at the VASF gallery in San Francisco featuring Barry McGee, Kaws, Phil Frost, Craig Stecyk III, Stephen “ESPO” Powers and other street art legends working with RVCA and Cinelli to produce these limited edition, great art bikes. Click to see more images, courtesy of Sketchypad.com
W-base are a japanese Fixie/courier related company. Check the W-base online store for LOTS of nice stuff, including the ‘resistant’ bag, available in lots of fetching colours to co-ordinate with your fixie.
