THE ACTUAL PICTURE

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JAY LAM REPRESENTIN' REAL HARD

AT A FASHION SHOW!........BUWAHHAAHHAHAHAAH!!!!!!!!!!1

(Daily Bruin Website)

(Daily Bruin Front Page)

TOMORROW

I heard The First Lady, Jay, and Nate wanted to go. Organize a ride beezies! I'll be there all day...

A FRIDAY IN HELL

Someone go represent the horse! We need to place and show these messengers whats really good. DAYUM.

TBND SPEAKS

On the fashion show:

"Eh I jus wanatd to lay out the meat of the skillet that wen dow tat fashion show. So all we did was drank dat red bull juice all up and kick it as female models kicked off they threads before us like goddesses from dat misty gold heaven above. Jarret skeeted a storm early in game, so that's when Jay Lay swooped at it, but Jay Lay's
sweat was treal heavy for dem piteeny ass grills, so dat's when V-jay jay illegas and TBDN primed up to stop playin as steel boys and start playin as steel men. V-jay jay illegas guided TBND through the fog and taughted him how real men ride n' roll (dirty). TBND was slow but caught swazz and the rest is history in them textbooks for lame fools dat aint wanna be no part uh tha fashion hoes."

NUFF SEDD.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Even if politics ain't your thing, yall should know that Obama is the only presidential candidate that encourages cycling in his platform.

http://www.cicle.org/cicle_content/pivot/entry.php?id=1654

REALLY

alex and zach need to stop.

FUCK SOMA

First they recall their "leather" straps...now this.



Soma double clips were supposed to be indestructible. MKS!

FAST FRIDAY

Fast Friday movie.

TOP 10

Kryptonite’s Top 10 Worst Cities for Bike Theft
1. Philadelphia, PA
2. Chicago, IL
3. New York City, NY
4. San Francisco, CA
5. Tucson, AZ (tie)
Portland, OR (tie)
7. Denver, CO
8. New Haven, CT
9. Cambridge, MA
10. Austin, TX

LAW AND ORDER AEROSPOKE

better than a spinergy!

LET'S JUST GO TO TOKYO

(JASON,) IS THIS OKAY?

COOL KID

THE VELODROME

RANDOM

A LITTLE BIT OF CULTURE

So I'm sitting here working on my paper that is due at 9AM tomorrow. Just thought I'd share this with the homies. If you don't know who Son House was then watch the video. He's badass. End of story.

LIGHTS

I could do with one of these, if my bike doesn't stand out enough as it is. 64 bucks though.


http://www.monkeylectric.com/index.htm

HOT SHIT: IRIBE X SUNTOUR GROUP

SINCE THERE'S A LOT OF TALK ABOUT PEEING WHILE RIDING

Courtesy of www.fatcyclist.com

Rule 1: Make sure you’re safe from legal repercussions.
Urinating in public may violate indecent exposure, public nuisance, and disorderly conduct laws. In some states, you can become a sex offender for urinating in public. You don’t want to have to knock on your neighbors’ doors and notify them of your status. It’s awkward.

Rule 2: Make sure you’re riding on a slight decline.
If you’re going too fast, you don’t want to lose control of your bike. If you’re going too slow, you don’t want to have to pedal midstream. You might as well just stop and get off your bike.

Rule 3: Learn the proper technique.
Extend one leg and rotate the opposite hip towards the extended leg. Free your member from the top or bottom of the shorts, and let it flow. Tap as necessary.

After doing my research, I decided it would be easy. It even looks easy.
Notice the varying techniques used by the cyclists. The Postie is using the over-the-shorts method, while the guy in the green jersey is using the under-the-shorts method. See how the right leg of his shorts is rolled up? Easy enough. I was all set. On the way into work, I found a nice, remote location with a slight decline and got ready to go. That’s when I learned one more rule to successful relief on a bicycle:

Rule 4: Make sure you really need to go.
The first time you try this, understand that Nature doesn’t just have to be making a polite house call, ding-dong. Nature needs to be banging on the door with an oak cudgel, shouting and threatening to breaks windows.

After work, I didn’t stop by the bathroom on my way to the bike cage, and I downed two bottles of water. I was good and ready. Almost too ready. After a painful twenty-minute ride through traffic, I finally got to a trail where I could get on with my business. I don’t want to go into the details of my experience, but let’s just say I learned two new rules:

Rule 5: Account for shrinkage.
You may not have as much capacity for extension as when you started the ride.

Rule 6: Once you start, don’t stop until you’re done.
It doesn’t matter if you think you see the lights of an approaching car or an oncoming cyclist. Stay committed. Otherwise, you’ll finish your ride with a soggy bottom.

And if You’re a Woman…
I have neither information nor advice for you. I’m sorry.

IF YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH II

BLADERUNNER ALLEYCAT AKA WHY I LOVE ZIADIE

Just wanted to immortalize my love for Steven Ziadie by posting an email from Steven Ziadie. Enjoy.

"hey everyone,

so it was nic and i representing our group and i think we did FUCKING well. there was about 50 people who started the race, and only 25 finished. nic and i paid our 5 and signed up as team. we placed fourth. there were messengers from New York, San Fran, and Philly. the race led us through parking garages (a few guys went down on the slippery floor) , we had to get off our bikes and take elevators to the top of a downtown building, play bike polo against a drunk guy at one check point and it ended in a bar called the "monte carlo," just to get stickers on our manifests. i got chased by a dog and nic got chased by some cracked out guy in the warehouse district (but i'm sure he didn't notice it, i of course saw it being behind him at the time, the way the guy ran reminded me of a mummy, which is awesome).

two people got hit by cars, one we heard about and the other happened right in front of us. there was about 7 of us rushing to make this light and the girl in front of us got taken out by a speeding taxi. she was tangled in her bike not moving. we did all we could until someone called the ambulance...

it was a very surreal night. i still cannot believe we placed fourth (which is not good enough to get a prize). some messengers gave us very MANLY hand shakes and suggested we play bike polo with them (cuz at the bike polo check point we exhibited most impressive skills). i even got a nod of approval from o20's TJ and i'm pretty sure a girl at the bar looked at me, kinda.

here is a link that is completely unrelated that i like a lot:
http://missedmanners.wordpress.com/2007/01/12/what-i-did-over-christmas-vacation/

now the rest of the night i will spend playing FFXII and getting my party to level 45 (i just got penelo the ashura, which is a two handed ninja sword that casts dark magic! COOL!) STEEL HORSE!!!!!!!"

IF YOU THINK YOU'RE TOUGH

    

BACK FROM HOME

it was so hot i drank 56 of these. RIP, young coconuts. beware, adult coconuts.

FUCK A HED 3

LexCarbon 700c clincher. from Leeww on Vimeo.

i want a hed 1. haha

LAST NIGHT

Last night I was sleeping and I had this dream where I was doing backwards circles (yeah right, right) and then i busted out a backward circle barspin! my brain was like THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE YOU RIDE BULLHORNZZZZ but I was doing it and it was awesome. then I woke up and I couldn't even do a backwards circle .

ATTN: STEEL HORSE SKATERS

I was just looking back through some videos of my high school skate crew...sniffle (you skaters out there who had a solid crew know what's up)...and after I wiped away the tears I said, "Hey you know what? Hopefully after college I will look back at Steel Horse videos and feel the same way...because our crew is pretty sick." In summary: let's keep riding and get stronger. We can make a better movie than MASH, Macaframa (not!), Doom, etc. Let's start filming some shit and get some Tim Bevins comments on wax. Let's go skating sometime. Love you guys. No homo.







For the skaters out there...I'll post some actual good footage sometime when i can edit some shit together. And for the haters who didn't come out to the "skate ride" (everyone except TBND)...

EYE KNOW I LOVE YOU BETTER

MACAFRAMA

Second trailer here: http://www.vimeo.com/611977 (Anyone know how to embed vimeo?)

If you don't know about Macaframa outta the 'sco then now you know. In my opinion, the sickest fixed gear crew on the scene. Legit riding + great filming, art direction, etc. Watch. Absorb. Repeat.

IF YE AINT KNOWIN

New Kels!

A BRIEF HISTORY

This site has a pretty sweet history of bicycle racing if you're into that stuff.

It's only a few pages.  Look at the other sections too, there are some sweet

old bikes.

ALL HAIL CARDIEL

http://www.vbs.tv/shows.php?show=991

Required watching.

T19 INTERVIEW

this one is for you zach.
Japanese skating and track bike crew.
Interview by FatLace

More of the crew at:
http://www.itsdesignrelated.com/
(more interview shit)
http://www.t19skateboards.com
(their site)
http://gallery.mac.com/otakidog#100012&view=carouseljs&sel=0
(their web gallery)
http://uk.youtube.com/ridewizpride
(their YouTube channel, i know youve seen some of their videos)

RIDE OF SILENCE

DATE: May 21, 2008
TIME: 7:00 pm
WHERE: Hundreds of locations world wide
Join cyclists worldwide in a silent slow-paced ride (max. 12 mph/20 kph) in honor of those who have been injured or killed while cycling on public roadways.

BEING THAT I'M IN SAN FRANCISCO RIGHT NOW

SF Track/Fixed Edit from Fonsecafilms on Vimeo.

I thought it was appropriate. I'm home but now I miss my bike in LA.

K SO

7.4%?! STFUOMGZ

My friend Anna recently got arrested. Why?
I quote her:
"I was one of the 16 students arrested at the UC Regents meeting yesterday here at UCLA. (I'm not allowed in Covel Commons for a while!! De Neve, anyone?) Those fuckers voted to increase our student fees ONCE again. Starting in the fall, our fees will increase by 7.4%."

More of her experience on her blog...here.

Dont believe it? Then here, believe the news media, you automodernistic protean.
KTLA and ABC7

BIKE TO WORK DAY

was about 20 minutes ago. Me? Sure I rode my bike. Then I took a plane home.

in LA

in SF

IF YOU THOUGHT MY SPINERGY WAS SCARY

....SHUT THE FUCK UP!

GLOW IN THE DARK TOUR

or not. just in case theres no light bulbs in a room where we're going to be running on rollers?

p.s. i'm home in san francisco right now. pictures of the trip soon? kbai

AROUND THE BEND

This is the shoe company that I work at in Chinatown every Monday and Friday. We're having a huge sale on May 31st and June 1st (Saturday and Sunday). Everyone come! Turn it into a ride! Keeps are sweet to bike in!

AROUND THE CORNER

School's Cultural Affairs Commission (which Zach and I are in) is back with our 22nd Annual JazzReggae Festival!
Some artists performing include: The Roots, Goapele, Mr. Vegas, and Stephen Marley.

Mark your calendars for Memorial Day weekend for the 25th and 26th all day!

TICKET INFO @ Ticketmaster
Advance tickets $25
Day of Events $35
Two-day PRESALE pass $45

K3W1 HELMETS

Our first lady Crystal recently had an experience with riding and pounding the pavement. Nasty scars and a big bump on the head ensued. For those that think helmets are homo...now theyre hella more homo with Bastiaan Kok’s camouflaged helmet..woo!

YAY FOR TICKETS

Last last Saturday I got a jay walking ticket in front of Avalon on Hollywood and Vine. No one knew how much it was to come out to, and today I found out.

$133 was the cost of JAYWALKING, CV # 21456 in sunny Los Angeles California...shitty.

N*E*R*D*

They tempted us with a preview. Now a couple of days after, here's the full!
Also watch it on their blog.

Here it is, the full video as a popout from your browser…

N*E*R*D: Everyone Nose: Play Now

WHAT THE PAINTINGS!?

This is SO for Jay Lam.


More oil painting by Vita here...

INTERESTING BIKES

FOR EVERYONE ON STEEL HORSE THAT WANTS A SPOKK

just say no.

(photo from Hayden)

THE SOUND OF TUESDAY

Eating Beef Nachos from Rendezvouz.

Playing GTA4 while listening to American Boy.

Shopping with Lucas (my roommate) and Zach.

These are a few of my favorite things.