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.
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.
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.
“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.
