27 August 2008

21 August 2008

73 MILES YESTERDAY


Regular commute + K-Town ride to Arcadia. I'm tired.

20 August 2008

VCR ALLEYCAT

Tony + fam:
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Registration:
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Christy Shwamaguchi + DTWanksta


Checkpoints:


KC, Colby + Zach:


Mike, Quickel + Ziadie:


The loot:





















He'll break your hip!


Rogue Status:


Too funny:


1st - Jaime:


2nd - Danielle:


3rd - Hern:


1-jaime lazarin---1st place
2-danielle marie---2nd place
3-hernan montenegro---3rd place
4-kyle kelley
5-ty hathaway
6-kc knott
7-joe kim
8-tom quickel
9-justin riessman
10-taka hayashi---10th place
11-josh gelfand
12-zach scott
13-colby sue
14-matt comer
15-liz brownE
16-miguel abad
17-carey lyn
18-jeremy burgess
19-ken chang
20-tait nalley
21-jimmy g
22-patrick estrella
23-tom jacobson
24-devon tsuno
25-nic hill
26-lloyd bandonillo
27-john harakuni
28-jp klien
29-david miser
30-eric abrian
31-patrick rastor
32-bernie labansat
33-jiro yabe
34-max shalvaryan
35-nate lau
36-jamie reilly
37-steven ziadie
38-anthony converse
39-gabe owner---last place
hambone---dnf
josh ochoa--dnf
elizabeth schafer---dnf

Photos: warm0ats

19 August 2008

ANOTHER CDALE IN LA?!


So I'm doing the usual ride home from Chinatown yesterday and I came across another Cannondale Track. I know there's a few others in LA that have them but I've never seen anyone but myself ride one on the street. I was amazed to see this bike locked up in Westwood of all places. Unfortunately besides the original Suntour headset and cranks the build was pretty bad...especially the lack of a lockring and brakes. FAIL. I need to meet the owner!

18 August 2008

VCR ALLEYCAT TOMORROW!

LAFIXED 2ND ANNIVERSARY RIDE

Here's some photos I took during the ride. There's more on LA Fixed, but I didn't want to hijack people's photos. Enjoy.

Kenny's new shit:


Yamaguchi:


Colby:


Natorade:


Whips:


Charlie Murphy:


I don't know this guy but I see him everywhere...sick bike:


Jaime:


Colby + Jaime:


Graeme:

15 August 2008

SHLA CENTURY III

So last night we did a really short ride (click map for gmaps link):
The whole idea and inspiration behind this century was to build off rides that we do every week and find the most efficient route to ride 100 miles in the greater Los Angeles area. To create the route I incorporated our original century, our second century, the Wolfpack century, the palisades route from VCR and various commutes and SHLA rides that we all do on a weekly basis. The crew consisted of me, Alex, Steven, Mike Bike, Colby and Hern riding fixed and MTB Steve and Ryan on road bikes (Mike's friend Tate also rode with us for the beginning section and Miguel started but opted out around mile 30...don't worry about it Miguel!).









In summary we ended up riding 101.5 miles in 6 hours 3 minutes with a max speed of 34mph according to the computer on Ryan's roadie. With proper training and dare I say...road bikes those numbers could be greatly improved. Altogether great night despite the thunder and lightning. Congratulations to everyone that finished (and smashed hella food at Norm's). We win! Photos here. Spokecard coming soon!

14 August 2008

SHLA IN THE BAY


I went home last weekend to see the fam. Colby and Richie call me up the next day and tell me they're on their way to Oakland. Random. We ended up going on a mission to SF to pick up a Bianchi Concept for Richie, a HED rear disc for Colby and a Giro Atmos helmet for me. The next day we headed over to Montano Velo where Colby ordered his Broakland Pipe Bomb. Rest is history. Photos here.

13 August 2008

ZAAYUM!

ZACH AND MATT

SHLA x VCR x LAX II



Here's a video of last night from Butts on LA Fixed (Check out his site Radical Radness). Also, here is the route that we did. 40 miles! Photos here.

MACAFRAMA PREMIER 09.24.2008


Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.


Macaframa from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.

10 August 2008

VCR LAX II


Venice Chill ride 5/20/08 LAX II from Hernan Montenegro on Vimeo.

Video courtesy of Hern...same ride this Tuesday. Get juiced!

06 August 2008

OG BOBA ROUTE







Bored at work today...

05 August 2008

SHLA X VCR

















Fun night with ghettodrome races under the Santa Monica library and drag races on Georgina in northern Santa Monica. Colby and I got to the semis of the ghettodrome and got took when the third guy jumped the start. We also made it into the drag semis and lost to Hern. In the end Hern lost to the guy that won the ghettodrome. After winning two first rounds and losing two semis I feel...slow. Damnit! The rest of the pictures here.

01 August 2008