31 July 2008

100 POSTS...100 MILES

The original SHLA century...if you don't know now you know.


Anybody down for another one soon...?

30 July 2008

SHLA X VCR

Just Miguel and I tonight...Palisades was sick. More photos here.

29 July 2008

INTERNET VS. BIKE MESSENGER

Internet Endangers Big-City Tradition: The Bike Messenger
WIRED covers the continuous struggle between metropolitan bicycle messengers' delivery and the information super highway.
Read the entire article here.

Bike messengers (left to right) Josh Godar, Chris Sparks and Annunaki Jonny talk with Wheels of Justice co-owner Matt Flores outside the business, on Mission Street in San Francisco.
Emily Lang/Wired.com

Here are some excerpts:
But the internet is gaining on these roadsters faster than they can pedal their fixed-gear, brakeless bikes. In a world where documents travel by e-mail and the web, and electronic signatures are legally binding, the business of moving physical wood pulp from point A to point B is struggling.

In the last two years, three messaging companies in San Francisco have folded. Courier service Bucky's of Seattle trashed its bike fleet last year. And there are nearly 1,000 fewer bike messengers in New York than a decade ago.

"There's a freedom associated with bike messaging," the tattooed Tanaka says. "Nobody requires me to wear a suit and tie to work. They just want to make sure you can ride a bike and know where you are going."
The dangers of the job are obvious. And then there are the lesser-known perils.
"We used to have this one run. I called it the piss run. You went around to different homes where elderly people lived, to collect their samples," he recalls. "I went to this one lady's house, threw it in my bag and, when I got back, I reached in my bag and my hands were all wet. There was piss all over my bag."

28 July 2008

MY BIKE...

...is a 93 Cannondale Track and it looks like this (here you go Nate):
















































































Steel Horse post up your whips!

25 July 2008

23 July 2008

SHLA x VCR
















See the rest here.

21 July 2008

!



Jack from O20 was in there somewhere...everyone is okay.

QUINCY ST @ PINE SFCA

FILMING

Just Mike, Colby and I today...as usual:



Kick barspin.

















Through the frame + leg over.
Graduate housing hill.


















No hand pop up wheelie.


















Spin left...


















...then right.

19 July 2008

NEW STUFF!


Bought some Champs so I could look silly. My hands hurt. Blistersss.

17 July 2008

JUST FOR FUNSIES

Today...



...next filming day set for Sunday. Hit me up if you want to come out.

YESTERDAY...

...we went filming.
















Colby came through from Santa Monica to get some footy and killed it:
























































































Mike and I didn't get shit:

















Anyone down to film today?

16 July 2008

10 July 2008

05 July 2008

FOOTAGE

Mike bike and I went out for an afternoon of filming last Sunday...here's some stills:















































































































Whoever is down to go out and film hit me up! Let's get some ride footy too!!!

04 July 2008

SHLA REPPIN































Just heard Al took second! Steel Horse!

WTF!















Check this out!

CHAPTER ONE: FIXED GEAR BIKE FIRST STEP

T19, Carnival, and Transworld made a "how-to" DVD on fixed gear tricks. Available 7.10.08. Watch the trailer here.

02 July 2008

01 July 2008

WOLFPACK TEE




















Brought together by a love of fixed gears, the X-Hustle collection is a union between OG label XLarge and fixed gear collective Wolfpack Hustle. Together they’ve teamed up with LA artist Swank to produce a midnight-themed graphic t-shirt with strong imagery. Available this July 4th at select XLarge retailers.

Source: XLarge.jp via Hypebeast

I AM THE NUMBER ONE MACAFRAMA GROUPIE

New promos!!!


Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.


Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.


Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.