Thank you to everyone stopping in to buy gifts for their friends and family. I hope you all have a nice holiday and a happy New Year.
Get your fix
This Wednesday was the kick-off for the Bicycle Film Festival in San Francisco. The event will carry on through the weekend with a great line-up of flicks including, the much anticipated short by Macaframa, Macramento. The rider line-up for the film includes skate legend, John Cardiel and blogging animal Kris Fay of Lockedcog along with other Sacramento rippers. Check out the trailer below.
Kris will be out there this weekend to partake in the festivities. He will also be bringing along a few samples of the new Lockedcog t-shirt which are set to be released on Black Friday. If you can spot him, flag him down and get one of the tees early.
The Grime
Check out this edit from Wonka and the guys over at GRIME. Expect big things in the future from this camp.
MONDAY MORNING VOL. 1 from GRIME BIKES on Vimeo.
FRANK 151: Chapter 42
The new issue of Frank151 has arrived at the shop. This edition of the sought after books focuses on Cuba. Come by the shop to pick up your free copy.
Hope everyone is getting their votes in today.
As Promised
Part two of my So Cal recap contains no photos from the Agenda Tradeshow. I figure there’s plenty of those floating around the interwebs already. I made my escape from the madness of Huntington in the afternoon, Thursday, and went on my way to San Diego. After a couple hours in traffic I made it in time to catch dinner with Alyasha (Stack-Aly) and Jessica, who were my gracious hosts. I had come to check out Aly’s gig at the Tower Bar, where he is a resident DJ.
Josh “Big Red” Hayes (Macaframa) scooted on over to hang. If you still haven’t checked out his part in Macaframa, do it. It was a pleasure to finally meet the guy.
Joe (LWR), there on the left, met up with us a little later on. The little guy pictured, who we named Yoda, was a trip and really just wanted us to know how much he loved America. Right on, Yoda.
Aly, along with Mikey Ratt (Right), put on an awesome set and made sure everyone had a good time. If you’re ever in the area be sure to check out Tower Bar, a truly rad establishment.
Thanks for everything, Aly.
Check out his blog happenings HERE.
Back to the Future
Last Friday, after a non-stop week of debauchery, I returned from Huntington Beach. Surprisingly, I did manage to get some business done during my time there. There was a lot going on last week in Huntington: The Agenda Tradeshow, US Open of Surfing, The Maloof Money Cup, and also the Fuel TV Action Sports Conference. On the Tuesday before Agenda, the Action Sports Conference was held at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort. I was there to check it out and see what the corporate giants had to say about the future of action sports.
It was a full day of lectures and panels from industry leaders of the action sports realm. Pictured below (L to R) is Tim McFerran (Maloof Money Cup), Alyssa Roenigk (ESPN), Nick Sargent (Burton), and Bryan Johnston (UFC).
The conference even shifted it’s focus towards the streetwear community. Here is Bobby (The Hundreds) and Huf during their panel discussion, “Action Sports as a Culture”.
I’m sure I was one of the youngest people there, but it was kind of surprising to me that the majority of the crowd seemed to be pushing at least sixty. That said, many of the questions asked were strange and some of the older attendees embarrassed themselves trying to floss knowledge on these guys here. Skateboarding legends: Christian Hosoi and Steve Caballero.
Everyone was exhausted by days end. But it’s hard to stay down when you walk out to a view like this.
More from the So Cal trip soon.
FTL
Pre-Macaframa, your favorite fixed gear directors were making skate videos like the one here. Colby created this video, featuring strictly Sacramento based skaters, over four years ago. The aptly named FTL crew included local skate rats Mark Dillon and JR Dias of Lurk Hard. Matt Pailes (iPath) also gets some shine in the video along with footage of a younger, pre-swoosh, Omar Salazar(NikeSB). With all the things these guys have going on now it’s interesting to look back at this point in time.
#F(ixed)F(riday)
This week’s Follow Friday is is devoted to a few of the guys making things happen in the fixed gear community. We follow all of them on our twitter and think it’s worth your time too. So, without further ado, I bring you #FixedFriday.
W-Base, run by owner Moto and shop manager Yohei, is a BMX and Fixed Gear focused shop in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Moto has been riding BMX for over twenty years and opened the shop to express his take on riding. You might recognize Yohei from his part in Mash. Yohei is also a talented artist and contributes the the shop’s line of shirts. If you are ever in Tokyo, definetly hit them up. In the meantime, check out the W-Base twitter here. (Kudos if you can spot the LL sticker in their background)
When you’re in need of a “fixie fix”, chances are, you will end up on Kris’ blog Locked Cog. Updated multiple times daily, Locked Cog keeps you up to date with the world of fixed gear culture. Kris is a Sacramento native and can often be found at the shop in between riding and working. He’s also a thief, that stole my hat several weeks ago. Just kidding, he’s a good guy, I still want that hat back though. Keep up with all of Kris’ shenanigans on his twitter.
Fixed gear riding has been progressing and growing in Hawaii under the watchful eye of Ryan Lau. Ryan runs things over at Aloha Fixed out of Honolulu. He has been working hard on the first Aloha Fixed film “290ed” and putting out some dope new product. Fresh off his trip from Japan, Ryan has a lot of projects in the works for the growing company. I owe all my vocabulary of Hawaiian pidgin slang to dis bruddah here. See what Ryan has going on, follow the Aloha Fixed Twitter.
“Mr. Nasty Time”
W-Base rider Teppei Iwabuchi, better known as “Nasty”, has been pushing the limits for fixed gear trick riding in Tokyo, garnering himself a lot of attention over the past year. Warp Magazine in Tokyo recently did a shoot with Nasty, which is when Ryan(Aloha Fixed) captured the photo below. Great things are always coming out of Japan…I’m very excited to see more from Teppei in the coming months.
teppei iwabuchi from champ on Vimeo.
#FF
“Follow Friday”, a weekly ritual on twitter, is an opportunity to recommend profiles you think are worth checking out. Here are some of the folks we keep up with daily. Each of these photos was on the Lucky Lefty’s twitter profile at some point.
Here are our friends Gabe and Keller, mid chest bump, over at FTC Sacramento. Gabe keeps us all up to date with the current Nike SB releases and skate hardgoods. There’s a good chance you’ll see some notable skaters in there too. Follow FTC here.
This is Matt. Web design extraordinaire, gnarly BMX rider, straight edge OG, and walking zombie. He is responsible for the website you are on right now. He does some impressive work along with his world class team at BKWLD. Follow Matt here.
NEEK hails from Sin City, a rad dude with an agenda. If he’s not holding down shop at StussyLV, you might catch him cruisin in his decked out Scion xb(right there to the left), updating one of his many websites, or grubbin’ on Korean BBQ at Tofu Hut. Really though, NEEK is everywhere and he takes us all with him via his twitter. Follow him and peep game.
Last but not least is Colby; the “fixie filmer”. Founder and director of the fixed gear cycling film company known as Macaframa. Colby and the Macaframa team are preparing to film the second installment of their fixed gear cycling project this summer. Having recently moved back to Sacramento, he has been rediscovering the area on his bike and updating his followers with the new spots he finds. He’ll also update you when he loses at pool over here at the shop. Check out Colby’s twitter here.
