Alexis of Thought You Knew sent me some information on their forthcoming TyK Calender for 2010. The calender features Ladies PinUps and Men's SuperHeroes as the theme and gets pretty creative as you can see from these teaser pics.

All proceeds of the sales go to support the Sadie Hawkins Style Ride via Chicago Women's Health Center. More info here.

For more details on the calender, head over to Thought You Knew

Cycle Bound Trailer -tight from rev phil on Vimeo.

I don't know what to say. I'm speechless. Along with the very NSFW video embedded above, Bikesmut.com offers this explanation:

Its been demanded and its been begged for and its been about time for us to unleash the beast that is the promotional trailer.

Our hesitation has been simple if not infuriating. This year's program has all new content that greatly expands our understanding of what was previously considered bike porn. The movies are amazing and naturally we want the trailer to be just as good. Frequently are better than their respective movies, and people go to see the movies knowing that. So we take specific shame in presenting this trailer, which, some say is great but we feel falls short on presenting the awesome bikesexual nature that is the entire program of Cycle Bound.

Harry, the man behind the NY Bike Jumble and the provider of content for Tears for Gears as of late is selling a beautiful 57cm Cimatti Campagnolo Cambio Corsa 1940's road bike on eBay. This is pure sex on two wheels. If vintage (read, 60 years old) roadies are your thing, check it out!

It ends in less than a day, so you can probably get a good deal on it! Like what you see? Check out the full gallery here!

Via Tears for Gears

Ed once again captures the environment of Peel Sessions. This was from the week when the Revival guys were in town filming. Great times.

Even though my foot is still broken, we're still doing Peel so roll through tonight!

WNW is a community space in the heart of L.E.S. brought to the NYC cycling world by DQM, Trackstar, Livestrong and Nike. It's at Trackstar's space (the flier had me confused for a second). Tonight is the opening party, from 7-9 at 231 Eldridge.

WNW is a pop-up installation within Trackstar that works as a companion to the STAGES show. Open Weds – Saturday, 10/22-11/22, WNW is all dedicated to cycling and art in New York. It’s a place for the community to get a sense of what LIVESTRONG and the Lance Armstrong Foundation are about and to connect with people who are stoked on cycling and art.

They will be serving free coffee and donuts every morning for riders headed to work, offering free flat fixes and teaching classes on bike stuff like wheel building and headset installation. There will be weekly rides visiting all five boroughs of the city that will leave from WNW. The London to Paris film will also be screened here.

The Stages begins at Deitch on October 31st and runs through November 21st.

Previously:
The Bikes of STAGES Exhibition at The Armory
Stages09 New York

Arik Roper is the man. His work has blessed many album covers from many many great bands over the years; Sleep and High on Fire are just a few. He's having an opening event at Fuse Gallery this weekend. Here's a few of the pieces that will be on display. I'll be there!

Brimming with delicate, surreal imagery, Arik Roper’s The Hidden Dimension examines alternate states of being that exist within and beyond everyday awareness. These realms unfold as everyday consciousness is interrupted through dreams or other capacities. Exploring these transcendent elements, Roper’s paintings and drawings feature epic landscapes of the mind, natural artifacts from the past and future and other cerebral peculiarities.

Arik Moonhawk Roper
The Hidden Dimension
Exhibition: October 24 through November 28, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24th, 7 to 10 pm

Fuse Gallery

In case you missed it, Freshness has a feature up on the bikes of the Stages09 exhibition at The Armory in NYC. Make sure to swing through because this will be one of the last chances to see the bikes before they're auctioned off. If you miss this, you can always check out the Stages09 show at Deitch from October 31 through November 21.

Stages09 Artist Bikes At The Armory
643 Park Avenue
New York, NY 10065

Previously:
Stages09 New York

With last year's calender a huge success, Mishka asked Ellen Stagg to come back to shoot the 2010 calender. It's available for pre-order now and this Thursday is the official opening party at their store on 350 Broadway in Brooklyn. I'll be there early before Peel Sessions, so be sure to swing through!

Ellen will also be exhibiting more of her erotic photography at the space, so don't miss out!

Previously:
Mishka 2009 Calender NSFW

Artcrank is coming to SF this weekend! Be sure to check it out.

ARTCRANK San Francisco 2009 is set for Saturday, October 24 at the Chrome Messenger Bags retail store. Admission is free, and all posters are $30. Best of all, Chrome and ARTCRANK will donate $4.00 for every poster purchased to Bikes To Rwanda.

Anthony Cozzi just sent me a sneak peek of his new print, Dead Wheelie. Looks good man! I dig it! Info below:

Dead Wheelie is an 18" x 24" screenprint, has an edition of 56 and will be $30 at the show.

Why isn't this show coming to NYC?

Vancouver! You guys get to be the home base for the Revival World Premier. Wayne and Tom's masterpiece is nearing completion and on November 8th, they're ready to present it to fixed gear riders all over. These guys are the most genuine people ever who had a vision and the motivation to produce a film in months, not years. Big ups to the whole crew and thanks for asking me to be a part of it!

Details below:

November 8th, 2009
Vancouver, BC
The Rickshaw Theater
254 East Hastings
Screening at 9:30pm

Livestrong Stages is making its way to NYC. Head over to the site to see a great video showcasing the background on the event and be sure to catch it on October 31st!

Details below:

From October 31 through November 21, Stages will be on display at Deitch Projects in New York.

Artists:
Cai Guo-Qiang
Rosson Crow
Jules De Balincourt
Dzine
Shepard Fairey
Futura
Andreas Gursky
KAWS
Geoff McFetridge
Yoshitomo Nara
Catherine Opie
Os Gemeos
José Parlá
Raymond Pettibon
Lari Pittman
Richard Prince
Ed Ruscha
Tom Sachs
Kenny Scharf
Eric White
Christopher Wool
Dustin Yellin
Aaron Young

Open to the public: October 31 through November 21, 2009

489 Broome St New York, NY 10013
T : 212.343.7300
Gallery hours: Tue-Sat, 12-6pm
info@deitch.com
http://www.deitch.com
Stages09.com

via DQM

Fixed gear boys all over swoon for Juliet. She's a rad girl and leads a busy, busy life. On top of riding for Charge, her and Posy own a promoting company. In her free time, she designs shirts, rides, falls and travels.

On her recent trip to SF, she met up with Brenton Salo to shoot some pics. This one came out nice!

It's a sad truth that with the highest density, NYC still falls behind 5 other US-cities and 2 Canadian cities in the ranking for "best to bike in". Nice design on the chart, horrible bike though!

Via GOOD.is

Hell yeah! Look at that setup! Thanks Harry.

Milano Fixed has some pics up of last night's Joyride opening night. Head on over and checkem out!

Check out the full schedule of events for the 2009 Milano Bicycle Film Festival here!

All you photographers out there; you may want to get in on this. The Red Bull Illume is an international photography competition focusing on extreme sports. It's not about shooting someone going the biggest, it's about shooting a beautiful photograph of something sport related.

Even though It doesn't have fixed gears or track bikes as a category, I'm sure you can find another sport to pick!

More information can be found here. There's also some amazing shots in the Gallery section.

Edit: Nick from Redbull commented that there is a category where fixed gear shots could be entered, so shoot away!

Velo Cult in the Eastern Sierras from Velo Cult on Vimeo.

Not only does this use one of my favorite songs as the soundtrack, it features some great cinematography and the guys from Velo Cult! Love'n it. Good job guys.

From their blog:

This video is made of random clips from our post-Interbike camping trip. Some of the places we rode were Bodie, Mammoth, Bristlecone, Mono. The bikes in the video are a Bontrager cross bike, Kelly cross bike, an old Raleigh and a Mondia.

The Velo Cult wool jerseys in the video look really nice.

I just received an email from Brad Serls regarding a friend and fellow cyclist that took his own life recently due to overwhelming depression. To help out he's selling the remaining prints from his photography show I posted about a while back and sending the proceeds to Beyond Blue, an Australian organization that raises awareness of depression.

My thoughts are with his family.

You can see the remaining prints here, at his Flickr set.

I cannot get enough of these photos that Camilla shot at the 2009 L'Eroica. I can only hope when I'm old and have seen many miles on the road that I can continue to pull my ass onto the saddle and log more.

Here, Valeriano Falsini, Coppi's Gregario, at 81 inspires us to be heroic.

picture by Rip Zinger

One of the days that I was healed up enough to ride, Rip Zinger set up a meeting with Nike Japan to do some shooting of me riding throughout Tokyo. I was still injured at the time and wasn't really feeling like riding, but Rip is a world-renown photographer and I couldn't pass up the opportunity!

picture by Rip Zinger

A nice little wallride spot I found. We only got one run in at it though.

picture by Rip Zinger

Traffic was dense in Tokyo. Comparable to NYC.

picture by Rip Zinger

It's actually legal to ride on the sidewalk there too. Sometimes it's the only way to get to a spot.

picture by Rip Zinger

Found a nice bank in Shibuya with a pretty steep hip. I got a nice 3 tap off it and a flared out 180 on another bank, a few blocks away.

picture by Rip Zinger, click for full-resolution

This sidewalk made a nice little hip. Perfect for blasting a 180 out of it.

Thanks so much for your time Rip! Come back to NYC and we'll hang out!

see it bigger here

Andrew Gura is a Los-Angeles based director and photographer. He's been experimenting with Anamorphic video by using his beautiful track bikes as subjects. This first one is of his Carlton flyer track frame.

see it bigger here

Here's his properly-built, period-correct Pogliaghi pista. Such a nice bike!

See some of his videos here and keep watch for an edit of these two bikes shortly!

I just got an email from Cyclic! In Amsterdam, telling me of an event that's springing up this weekend!

A hobby and meeting of two creatives that has got out of hand > turned exhibition event next weekend in Amsterdam.
We (Vera & Cheryl) are two biking buddies that thought a diy exhibition about cycle culture would be fun to organise for the biking community here in Amsterdam.

cyclic! is a bicycle » art » media happening celebrating cycling culture. Exhibiting bicycle inspired artwork, design, performance, film screening, styling and a meet up & ride.
One of our exhibiting artists is Mat the Horse whose work I discovered on your blog.

artists exhibiting/performing » Bitches in Control, Brent Humphreys (Project le Tour), Cafe Velo, Erosie, fotoduda, Gabriel Kousbroek, Kapitein Roodbaard (Amsterdam Fixxxed), Lovelilalee, Magieke Jansen, Matthew The Horse, Oorbeek, Vera van de Nieuwenhof, Wheels-on-Fire,Tim Ayres, Vindersloon, Zelda Beauchampet.

Well. Someone went there and man, it looks nice! Peacock Groove copper-plated a track bike and components for a recent build. Once this beaut patinas a nice turquoise, it'll look so rad.

Love this picture. But what frame is it? You'll have to head over here to find out! I met Ryan, Maceo and John this past week in Japan. Rad dudes. Drank at their bar and shot the shit. Really admire what they've got going on...

I hung out with Rip a lot in Tokyo. Such a rad dude. Always riding with his camera in hand and taking us to clubs and spots to ride. He's got an opening in Tokyo on Wednesday at the Slope Gallery.

Be sure to check it out if you're in Tokyo! Seeing these pics of NYC makes me glad to be home. Looks great Rip! Keep it up and dude, email me when you see this!

Velo Cult has a nice little post about hoarding saddles. There was a time a while back, where my parts bin had 20 Turbos. 10 were NOS that I bought from a shop in Washington that was selling off their inventory. The rest were various Supers, Gels, Bernard Hinaults and Bios. Over time I sold them when I needed money and now I think I'm down to 5. Now with the re-issue, I feel like I don't need to hoard them as much.

The only saddles I'm squirreling away now are the Cinelli Unicanitors and the Concors. As long as those two saddle's re-issues are far-off from matching the originals, It'll stay that way.

Many props to Velo Cult for the rad post and pics!

This is what I felt like doing when I was in LA this past weekend. Great street art via Unurth.

Hit up the BFF website to see when it comes to your city!

I met Ricky about a month ago through Nate. He was visiting from Leeds and was in NYC to ride BMX. We hung around for a bit, shot the shit and rode a popular spot in Brooklyn. Really nice guy. Kills BMX. Like to the point where you feel uncomfortable riding a silly fixed gear around him ya know? He was totally cool about it though and showed a real interest in track bikes. He even said hadn't seen people do 180's down stairs on fixed gears before.

That brought about him talking about track bikes. He said he and his friends were really into riding them and come to find out, he's got a company now. Feather Cycles just launched and he's got his first two frames posted.

Throughout the years, I've always found that the people who are humble about their work, well, usually outshine everyone. Ricky is totally that kind of person. I had no idea he was such a great welder or craftsman.

Seriously, the bikes look good man. Real good. Totally digging the head badge too. If you're interested in setting up an order, hit Ricky up here.

Jeremiah, from Hold Fast, was out taking pictures with us the day we filmed the Hold Fast Promo video.

That day ruled so hard.

Here are a few of the pics and you can check the rest here, at his Flickr.

Previously:
Hold Fast Promo 1

This Wednesday, at the Clic Gallery, from 6 - 9pm come check out "Only in New York". Sue will be there signing copies of her upcoming book, "Street Level - New York Photographs 1987 - 2007". 20 years of epicness like the photo above.

See ya there!

COG is putting on the 2009 CMWC Tokyo anniversary installation this week. If you're going to be in Tokyo this Friday night, make sure you check it out. I'll be there, so come shoot the shit with me. I know Kevin Sparrow, aka the "Boy Wonder" will be lurking taking pictures.

Stoked! Who else is going?

I love Dazzle camo. I got a book on old warship's camouflage a few years back and when I first saw it, I was blown away. So ill. Even though it was used on WWI warships, people have re-appropriated it to fashion, graphic design, graffiti and even architecture. This canoe was a project of Carrie Schneider. Thanks to Matt from Makergo for the heads up!

I really would like to paint a Bruiser like that. Even though Camo has been done before!

Previously:
Jeff Koons Goes Razzle
Razzle Dazzle
Beatiful_02

For all of you who are attending the CMWC this year, be sure to check out this Dice&Dice exhibition set up by the Shop 14 and FGLDN crews.

Track racers are monsters. Even before beasts like Boss and Hoy were old enough to ride a bike, men like Reg Harris exhibited pure power at the track. 4 world titles during his career and a post-retirement championship title in 1974 at the age of 54.

This picture shows the strength he possessed. Just look at that chain slack during his final sprint!

Alex

Brad Serls joined up with some of Perth's bike crews and put on a photographic exhibition.

Kaspa

You can check out the rest here and if you're interested in prints, there are still a few available.

Ian does lovely work and this is just one example. Icarus is a frame builder from Boston that has been churning out beautiful frames for a little while now. My friend Jody has had one for about a year and Ian made him those custom aero track drops not too long ago. Another NY'r, Nikola just got an S&S couplered track frame from him too!

Nice subtle detailing here. Nothing over the top. This bike rules. I'd love to rip around a grasstrack on it! I'm sure Lucian will enjoy it!

Delta is by far my favorite artists. Not graffiti or street artist, just artist. I met Boris Tellegen in Amsterdam about 6 years ago. Prior to that, I had found his work in a Dutch architecture magazine. He went to industrial design school and began to explore 3D tessellations and installations.

These are some pics from his and Dalek's exhibition.

Although both artists’ work appears to have similarities with its underlying geometric themes, it is diametrically opposed “Marshall’s use of straight line and colour is all to do with the “super flat” surface and the ambiguity of the exaggerated optical perspectives, while Tellegen’s focus is on surface, texture and shadows,’ said curator Paul Jones in a recent interview with DESIGN WEEK ‘While I have exhibited both artists within larger group shows, I thought this two-man show would challenge and stimulate viewers’

..and juxtaposed will be a selection of American artist James Marshall’s meticulous geometric paintings, including a large scale, site specific installation painted during a recent residency at the gallery.

Such amazing work!

Via Arrested Motion

The Bicycle Film Festival kicks off tonight in LA. You better go people!

DELCO KING SUP. Tom Lamarche kills every bike he rides. One of the few.... Name someone who can kill a fixed gear 700c, 26", 24", 20". Kid destroys everyone.

Edit: Yes, I know there are people better than him. It's still very impressive.

Pics via Tony Fast

DONERI ver.6 from kwast on Vimeo.

The Doneri crew really stepped it up a few notches. The 720 tap was awesome. These guys are moving fast too, which makes the tricks look 1000000000% better. Keep it up guys! Even the cinematography looks great.

Impressed. Big ups.

Previously:
Doneri 1-5

Stevil Kinevil has launched his new blog, All Hail The Black Market into the World Wide Web. Be sure to check it out and follow it for all the goodness you know Stevil for.

All Hail The Black Market.

NYC keeps getting transplants from SF. So far, everyone that's come over to the East coast has adapted quite well. Chris, aka Condition SF was the one behind the still camera lens during a lot of the filming for Macaframa. His pics were posted all over the place while Macaframa was in production.

Now that he's in NYC, he'll be riding all over the city, hitting different spots with his camera lens.

Follow Condition NYC's Flickr here.

Bike Shorts X is approaching. $100 to the best bike-themed film. Not bad right? Get out your cameras and start shooting. The deadline for entries is September 20th with the premier on September 27th at Public Assembly in Brooklyn.

More information is here.

The CMWC is in Tokyo this year. Along with the messenger races, which you should register for now, there are art shows and other cycling-inspired events. Kao Art Rush is one such event. T-Shirt designs from around the world.

Check out the information here.

Who's going? I'll be there!

Originally from Massachusetts, Matt W. Moore has brought his fine-tuned, self-proclaimed "Vectorfunk" style back to the state with a well rounded body of work. His signature style canvas work, a departure from the norm into watercolor and collage work, as well as a small series of prints are hanging in the gallery. In conjunction with the traditional works, Matt has come together with Open and Traitor Cycles to present a series of five hand-painted frames, a cycling cap and t-shirt. Please visit the project's micro-site for a more in-depth look and to purchase select pieces of the Momentum project.
Visit Momentum Site.

Show hangs from August 15th, 2009 to September 15th, 2009.

"The bike project and other skate/snow/surf projects are ideal. I’m working with brands I have a lot of admiration for. I’m immersed in the culture; painting a bike is native to me - I ride every day. I want people to ride these bikes, not hang them up because they‘re scared to ride them. I do plenty of work that can be only hung up. Shred this bike for 10 summers, then hang it up and say it had a life."

Matt W. Moore / Arist & Designer

"The time and effort to which Matt and Zack have put into this show speak volumes of their love for what they do. This is obvious to anyone who has stepped foot in Open or has been in the presence of Matt’s art. We hold the work done at Open Bicycle, Chorus Gallery and Matt in the highest regard and are thrilled to have been asked to be a part of this."

Joe / Traitor Cycles

"Seeing a project go from conversation to completion is always great, especially when the outcome reaches a level far beyond what we all first imagined. We hope everyone enjoys it as much as we have."

Zack & Joshua / Open & Chorus

This looked so awesome. Duke Riley's event, Those About to Die Salute You, went off with a BANG and 1000's of food items. Gothamist has some great pictures up of the event. It's a shame I missed out.

Look at the scale of these boats. Insanity!

Good job Duke!

If you don't know who Massan is, then get familiar. He's one of the most powerful riders out there and the only person who makes bombing hills on a track bike look like snowboarding down a mountain. His recent introduction to Macaframa was a hit, showcasing his super smooth and strong riding.

Between traveling all over and riding through the streets of NYC, he's found time to make a blog. Be sure to follow him here.

Originally from Massachusetts, Matt W. Moore is bringing his fine-tuned, self-proclaimed "Vectorfunk" style back to the state with a well rounded body of work this weekend. Matt will be showing his signature canvas work, a small series of prints, as well as presenting a project in part with Open and Traitor Cycles - a series of five hand-painted frames, a cycling cap and t-shirt.

Matt is in the middle of a global gallery takeover, you can see images from his last show in Sao Paulo, Brazil here and expect to see him cross the Atlantic for a show this fall. Opening Reception is SATURDAY at 8pm.

Check out the Chorus site, www.chorusgallery.com and Matt's site, www.mwmgraphics.com for more information.

Handpainted frames, prints, t-shirts and caps will be available for purchase on Open's site, Monday Aug 17th, along with the photo and video recap.

Previously:
MWM for Open

Jake, aka = Laali = on Flickr, just posted his recently-developed pictures from his stay in NYC a couple months ago. Really great shots from Peel Sessions in there too, so make sure you checkem all out!

Colossal has a ton of pics up from the Stussy x LVfixed track bike show. Looks like a good time. A lot of beauties in there and a ton of street whips. Liked the head tube sticker on this one!

Previously:
Stussy x LVFIXED.com presents Track Bike Showoff

Duke Riley, the artist who did my Behemoth tattoo, has an event in Flushing-Meadows, Queens this Thursday. It's not a normal "gallery" event either, it's a naval battle footfight. Duke and his minions constructed boats from the reeds in the neighboring park and will set them assail in the reflecting pool outside the Queens Museum of Art at 6:30 on the 13th of August.

Looks so epic! Good job Duke!

Duke Riley has always been interested in the space where water meets land within the urban landscape and is known for art work that is an idiosyncratic mix of performance art, sailor’s craft and historical re-enactment. Upon QMA’s invitation for an artist residency, Riley’s life-long fascination with the culture and topography of waterfronts, and proclivity for margins - of society, history, etc. - were immediately focused on the decommissioned World’s Fair Ice Rink adjacent to the museum. The sight of the vast oval arena, a sea of refrigeration tubing and white sand, brought an instant association with ancient Roman coliseums that were flooded to stage violent naval battles or Naumachia for the delight of spectators in the Empire’s effort to distract the masses from societal collapse by indulging them with free bread and extravagant spectacle.

Sasha has an ongoing series entitled Seen on the Street: NYC Bikes and Riders. It's a great little set he's been compiling over the past few months; candid bicycle photographs and the people who ride them. This one in particular stuck out tonight. Full spandex, sneakers and no helmet on a GT Pulse. Really amazing shot and I figured with all the female T&A floating around on the blogs lately (just playing Zack!), maybe the female readers would like to see some boy butt. Albeit spandex butt.

When I said "Yes, Milwaukee can really do any kinda paint you want" some people took it to heart. Case in point... Insanity. Look at that fork! So nuts! I wanna see a Gravedigger Bruiser!

Man, that pearl clear coat is pretty too. Check out some more shots at MKE's Flickr.

More information to come at COGmag.com. Stoked on this! Wish August would be over already!

The OX from LifeInABox Productions on Vimeo.

Life In A Box created this video for Boston, MA-based Independent Fabrications recently. Watch as the guys from IF talk about the design and birth of this bad ass street bike. Lookin good guys! IF always makes the nicest bikes.

I don't usually get into the whole custom saddle thing. Mostly because I tend to ruin saddles all the time and why spend a lot of money on some "limited" art piece only to trash it in a few months?

I will however say the design intent behind these custom Brooks saddles is really nice. If you watch the Tour every year, then you've obviously heard of The Alpe d'Huez. It's been a stage finish of the tour since '76. Back when the tour was ridden on steel bikes and no one even knew what carbon fiber was, the racers were all riding Brooks saddles.

Now that time has passed, but Brooks commemorates those racers by collaborating with a wallpaper artist. Dan Funderburgh is an artist from Brooklyn and he used the topography map from the Alpe d'Huez for the design. Dan loves bicycles and I'm sure he was stoked to have Brooks approach him.

I know these bikes have been posted all over the net, but Tom Sachs' bike is the winner in my book. It had a case of Tequila on a Cetma rack and a spout to pour shots. The Cutters and yes, Lance all got wasted at the private party in Paris. Eventually, they all got kicked out of the party.

The bike looks good and all, but the zinger is in the details. Mr. Sachs took a dremmel and scraped away all the "SRAM" labels and wrote "Campagnolo" beside it. Pretty funny.

Pic via Milano Fixed and Fabio Costa has more images on his Flickr.

Tyler from Independent Fabrications has a really great portrait section up on his site featuring the messengers from the 2009 NACCCs. Some really great ones in there, so make sure you checkem out.

Seeing one of your favorite artist's work in person is always a great experience. I've been a huge fan of French for a while now and his exhibition is up at Mishka's 350 Broadway space for the next 6 weeks! If you can't afford a print, you could always pick up one of the exhibition t-shirts from their online store!

The opening party was a good time and I've got a few shots up on Flickr. Mishka also has a recap up on the Bloglin, so head over there and check it!

Ben from Deep Fried Graphics did a series of installation illustrations for Hold Fast. Still riding mine and I still stand by them!

Head over here for more information. Let's swing by before Peel Sessions guys!

If you're in Glasgow, then be sure to attend this:

Celebrating their 2nd anniversary as well as their 20th exhibition, Glasgow’s Recoat will host their “Spin on This” exhibition later next month. The bike-centric exhibition brings together a number of their friends and close associates to create various bike-themed pieces which include old Tour de France portraits, DIY bikes, bike storage solutions and photography among other mediums. The artists participating include Will Barras, ilovedust, SUMS, DERM, WASTE, Blackcloud, Jam Factory, REKOR, SYRKUS, Pone, Thomas Deeprose and Russell Dempster. The exhibition begins on August 7th, 2009 and runs until September 6th, 2009 with special grab-bags from sponsors given out on the August 7th opening night.

Recoat “Spin on This” Exhibition
Friday, August 7th – Sunday, August 6th
Recoat Gallery
323 North Woodside Road
Glasgow
G20 6ND

Chari and Co just got in the new SAG collaboration with the artist Questa.

I wonder if SAG is going to make the Mash bag a standard model now? I love mine. Been wearing it everyday since Mike hooked it up!

Check out what MWM just submitted to Open for their installation entitled Momentum at the Chorus Gallery!

MWM is on a roll at the moment - Wired loves his work and did you see his custom Mini Cooper? He continues to push his graphic look onto new forms. Take his upcoming show at Open’s Chorus Gallery, “Momentum,” which explores his graphics against a series of Traitor track bicycle frames. “In part with Open and Traitor Cycles, Matt will be presenting a series of five hand-painted frames, a cycling cap and some other soft goods. In conjunction with the frames, Matt will be hanging some of his signature canvas work.” We’re fans.

Read up at Selectism.

This Thursday between 7-10pm at 350 Broadway in Brooklyn, Mishka will be hosting a gallery event entitled Cursed Scrolls. They will be showcasing French's work. I've been a fan of French for some time now and when I found out he was doing some shirts for Mishka, I was pumped. I can't wait to catch this.

This shirt will also be available at the event and I'm sure it'll sell out quickly.

See ya there!

Yeah, I know it's a bit old, but I just came across these pics from Hellyer Velodrome over at Velodramatic. Make sure you browse through this site. A ton of great content.

Edit: just realized this pic isn't from the Hellyer post, but I'm still keeping it because it rules!

My friend Chris had a gallery show at the Chorus Gallery in Boston recently. His work is consists of an interesting play with typography and character illustration.

Tony Luong shot this image with 4x5. For more pics of Chris' custom painted SBC 125R Cruiser, head over to his Flickr.

Little Andrew Temkin has been interning for Lance at Squarebuilt for a few weeks now. Great experience for a young kid to get I'm sure. He's got a ton of pictures up on his Flickr of Lance working on Bad Heather's (sorry Heather, I had to) new frame.

Great shots! I'll post the finished product when it's done!

Arthur Ganson is known for his kinetic sculptures and machines. At moments even a cold metallic machine can appear to be organic and chaotic. This is one of those moments.

Thanks for the link Zack!

Brought to you by Super Mighty designs... Remember this? I posted it a long time ago. Kinda fitting after the record-setting number of comments I received on the U-Lock post.

Previously:
Ulock Justice?
NYC Bike Theft Solution

Crab cakes and Natty Bo aren't the only two signature goods to come outta Baltimore. Bishop is a frame builder that is churning out some real beauties. I love this wishbone seat stay. Gorgeous. Check out more information here and more beauties here!

Not sure who shot this picture, but that isn't stopping me from posting it. My guess it was taken at the last Future Tense in Seattle. Zach told me they got a few boxes and kickers for the competition and it looks like Tyler's laying it down proper. Nice shot! Who's the photographer, lemme link your site!

Edit: Volare_Ism took the shot!

Ed Glazar and I met up in Greenpoint tonight to shoot this wall ride spot. I hit it at least 50 times and I'm in pain. He liked this one the best. The sky and composition is fucking great, but we all knew Ed was the man already!

I always loved the Olympic symbol for cycling. Tracko has a version of it in his logo and this old stamp from the 1972 Olympics looks rad as hell.

Via SFGC via Adapt or Die

APPARATI EFFIMERI Tetragram for Enlargment from Apparati Effimeri on Vimeo.

Kinda random, but I was always really really interested in projection-based installations on architectural facades. This project in particular is really well done. Perfect use of the fenestration and the masonry.

Thanks for the heads up Chris!

Justin Keena, who shot a ton of pics of this year's Grand Theft Velo just relaunched his website. Head on over to check it out. Lookin good man!

Previously:
Grand Theft Velo Via Keena pt. 2
Grand Theft Velo Via Keena pt. 1
Sean Milnes Pics

THE REVIVAL/KEEP ON KEEPIN' ON from morehartfilms on Vimeo.

Mr. Briggs from Skitch just sent me an email with the new Revival trailer linked. Check out what Tom has to say about it!

Due to the trip being cancelled last month Wayne has taken it upon himself to create a short precurser video to the main video project. Basically the short video will be out in November and is title The Revival presents Keep On Keepin' On. The project focuses on Seattle and Vancouver while the main Revival video that will be out early next year will be more broad and include both west coast and east coast riders. We were really bumbed about having to cancel the trip last month so suddenly and felt that it would be good if we put out something sooner rather than later and that's where Keep On Keepin' On came from.

Lookin good guys! Tyler, you're a fucking maniac. MANIAC!

Previously:
The Revival Tour is No More
the Revival

The Times (London Times) asked Jonathan Williams to illustrate the different biker tribes in their city. Here are my favs:

Above

The Urban Speedster

Clive has a pink, all-in-one lycra leotard, and doesn't see why he ought to be ashamed about that. His bicycle cost many thousands of pounds, and is made of the same sort of stuff as badminton racquets. Clive rides his bicycle every day but, at the weekend, instead of cycling at high speed to his job in the City, he'll cycle at high speed to a bicycle shop. Here, he will spend many more thousands of pounds having bits removed from his bicycle, and replaced by other bits that are almost, but not entirely, exactly the same. Clive's bicycle lives in the living room, in front of the television. He has no wife.

The Sit up and Beg Biker

They don't go very fast, these bikes, but Emily didn't buy hers to get around quickly. She bought it because she liked the leather saddle, and the pretty basket. At first, she used to cycle around staring at the clouds, but the dentist won't let her do that any more. Emily's boyfriend constantly nags her about cycling in ballet pumps, and says she ought to wear some neon lycra. Emily always smiles, sweetly, but she's quite happy in her muted flowing asymmetrical skirts. Although her hems do get caught in the chain.

Where is the fixed gear rider illustration? Just this:

The Fakenger
Lee actually does IT for a small accountancy firm in Fitzrovia, but you would never guess that if you spotted him cycling to work from his home in Hackney. In his camouflage shorts and his cut-off tights, with his bag strapped up high on his back and his special shoes that don’t let him take his feet off the pedals, ever, he’s a dead ringer for a bona fide cycle courier. His bike has no gears and no brakes, and is festooned with tatty bits of string and masking tape. When Lee sees a bicycle with wheels that are thinner than his own it sends him into a powerful rage. He’d be a real cycle courier if he didn’t get lost so much.

Cheers...

Ed took some really great shots from the 2009 BFF Goldsprints party last Friday night. Doc Stiles crushed everyone who stepped up to the plate. Look at that Charles Manson intensity!

Check out Ed's site here.

Previously:
Hand-off 540 Cab
New MKE Ad in COG Magazine
Ed Glazar Photography

Matthew Hodson just sent me these illustrations he made inspired by a bike race. Pretty great. Really love the backgrounds. Make sure to click the image for full resolution. Thanks Matt!

Oh hell yes. Limited edition Brooks Saddles! This is rad. First COG now the NACCCs. Not to mention Greg Ulgade killing it with the artwork.

Who's going? Mr. Fast and I will be there... be very afraid!

Previously:
COG and Brooks

So here we are. A whole ton of pictures from the past 5 days. Jeremiah wall bonk at the Peel Spot on Elliot's my little pony bike.

Jeremiah also makes HOLD FAST straps in Redhook, Brooklyn. These are what I've been riding for the past few months and am in LOVE. Be sure to keep watch here, as we try to sell some more.

Tom Mosher is like an excited lap dog. He loves Tony. He also rides for Volume bikes and began Trick Track.

Here's Tom, Jake and Torey in McCarren park. Madness ensued there so we'll fast forward to the BFF Goldsprints after party.

James Newman tearing it up. Luke Stiles took first that night. Cyclehawk held it down!

Tarck pile outside. I was so drunk, I unlocked my bike and the stack fell!

Onto the next morning at the BFF09 Street Festival. I met up with Freeman Transport. Really amazing products. The internet does not do their handywork justice. I got to ride the Gravel Racer and if I didn't already have a stuffed stable, I'd look into getting one of these!

Here's Wonka, being Wonka.

Burd and Luke looking green.

Wilis raced in the Bridge Battle and got filthy.

The judges at the Track Bike events. Who thought it was a good idea to give those 3 a megaphone? Eric Puckett took first place at the freestyle and Tom and Wonka tied the Bunnyhop, maxing out at 25 1/2".

... and last but not least, Sean smilin!

You can find the rest over at my Flickr.

There are moments in your professional career where you encounter pure inspiration. For me, this came in the form of the Dutch firm MVRDV's work. When I was in Holland 5 years ago, I rode across the country visiting all of their completed work. Coming out of school and seeing design-intensive, theoretical work actually built, not just talked about was just what I needed to push myself.

Check out this interview with the Dutch Architects as Deutsche Welle TV chats with directors Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, and the owners of the Didden Village house, and mentions of the works Westerdokeiland, Rotterdam Market Hall, Parkrand and others.

Chris Habib, aka Visitor Design is a rare find. He's one of those native-NY'rs who has crazy stories about growing up in the art scene here. Not only has he filmed Sonic Youth on numerous occasions, but he supplied / designed rugs for some of Richard Kern's most provocative photo shoots.

He made this for me, both in digital and stencil form and I am beside myself. Unfortunately, it's a little too NSFW to be the banner for the site. But thanks Chris!

Even though it rained, we still threw down the Track Events. More details to follow, but Andy T. has some pics up here!

... and come by the Freeman Transport closing party after you catch the rest of the BFF09 screenings!

More updates to come as well as another edit and a ton of pics!

Aakash Nihalani working on finishing up the piece!

Will Sherman from Animal NY took some pictures of the artshow, Joyride for the Bicycle Film Festival. You can check the rest out tonight in person at the Anonymous Gallery at 186 Orchard Street, or here at the Animal gallery.

Wonka's piece is pretty rad. That's his old beat-to-shit Iro.

Taliah Lampert, as always, delivers!

I've been working with Mike Jones and Mikhail at Mishka for a few weeks now on this logo. They finished it up last night and I'm beyond stoked on it. Thanks duders. I also wanna thank everyone who's ever told me I look like a Viking, because that was the inspiration. Big ups guys! Expect some more related news to come shortly!

In the immortal words of Shang Tsung, "It has begun!"

Here's the deal for the 2009 BFF NYC in case you've been under a rock for the past few weeks.

Tuesday June 16
9:30 PM after a little ride around the area, we're all heading to Bar Matchless at 557 Manhattan Ave in Brooklyn for a benefit show.
There is a $10 cover but the drinks are 2 for 1. All cover fees + 1/2 the bar and all tips are going to the bartender Juliet who got in a wreck and is all beat up. More details to follow. This is not an official BFF event, so don't get confused. It's just a weekly hangout for a lot of the NYC kids. So come meet some people!

Wednesday June 17
6:00 PM | Bikes Rock
South Street Seaport
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
The Teenagers,
and Special Guests - FREE
After Party - Studio B - DJ Set by The Teenagers

Thursday June 18
6:00 PM | JOYRIDE - art show
After Party at Lit

Then, after you go to JOYRIDE, swing through the PEEL SESSIONS!
8:30 PM - 11:00 PM The weekly Peel Sessions in Williamsburg - afterparty to follow

Friday June 19
7:00 PM | Program 1 - Where Are You Go -
World Premiere
9:15 PM | Program 2 - Repeat of Program 1
11:15 PM | Program 3 - Repeat of Program 1
10:00PM | After party at Public Assembly with Goldsprints

Saturday June 20
12:30 PM | BFF Bike Parade
1:00 PM | BFF Street Party
1:00 PM | Program 4 - Mountain Bike Screening
3:00 PM | Program 5 - The Third Wheel - World Premiere
5:00 PM | Program 6 - I Love My Bicycle -
The Story of FBM Bikes - World Premiere
7:00 PM | Program 7 - Urban Bike Shorts
9:15 PM | Program 8 - Repeat of Program 7
11:15 PM | Program 9 - Repeat of Program 7
10:00 PM | After Party Extravaganza at CSV

Sunday June 21
12:00 PM | Polo Jam
1:00 PM | Program 10 - Sunday Bike Shorts
3:00 PM | Program 11 - 7 Deserts
5:00 PM | Program 12 - Fun Bike Shorts
7:00 PM | Program 13 - Down by the Weep Hole: The Story of the Stupor Bowl - World Premiere
9:15 PM | Program 14 - Keirin Queen/Onna Keirin Oh - Buy Tickets
Closing Party TBA

TO BUY YOUR TICKETS FOR ALL EVENTS CLICK HERE!

Ed Glazar shot this sequence back at the Bicycle Fetish Day. Last Fall I landed one of these and have been dialing it in since. It was hard for me not to post videos or pics of it until after Bootleg 3 came out, but this is a pretty good image sequence. Click on the image for a higher-res image. You can also catch more of Ed's work in this week's Joyride Art Show for the BFF.

If you wanna see a video, you'll have to get BLS3!

This Sunday, if you're in NYC early for the Bicycle Film Fest be sure to swing through Wilis' birthday event at East River Bar.

Nate and Chris hung out with Andy the other day for an hour or so while I was at work. They came by to pick up their copies of Bootleg Sessions and then left me there to deal with revisions, revisions and more revisions...

Nice shots man! Some really good portraits, epic BMX shots and other randoms. Check the rest out here.

Here's the agenda NYC. I wanna know who's coming? It starts Wednesday night with Bikes Rock! We're planning a special Peel Sessions Thursday night after the Joy Ride art show. Details below!

JOYRIDE

Curated by Brendt Barbur, Joseph Ian Henrikson, Tanya Arakawa Rosenstein.

MULTIPLE LOCATIONS
Collective Hardware - 169 Bowery at Delancey St. +Map
Puffin Room - 435 Broome St. at Broadway. +Map
Sara D. Roosevelt Park/The Pit- Chrystie St. and Broome St. +Map
186 Orchard St. +Map
Hungry March Band - 6:00pm at The Pit. +Map
AFTER PARTY- LIT - 10:00pm - 4:00am - 93 2nd Ave. +Map
Aakash Nihalani • Agathe Snow • Aiko • Alfred Bobe and Shane Bovel • Alessandro Zuek Simonetti • Amy Bolger • Amelia Shaw • Andrew McClintock • Artus De Lavilleon • Ashira Siegel • Benedict Radcliffe • Robert S.L. Waltzer • Bradley Baker • Brian Vernor • Camilla Candida Donzella • Cecily Upton • Cheryl Dunn • Chiara Clemente • Chris Stain • Chris Uphues • Chris Thormann • Dana Goldstein • Daniel Leeb • Daniele De Lonti • David Komurek • Ellis Gallagher • Ed Glazar • Erik Foss • Falcon Duran • Fast Eddie Williams • Fumie Ishii • Gaia • Giftcycle • Greg Ugalde • Graffiti Research Lab • Herman Mao • I LOVE DUST • Jacques Ferrand • James Newman • James Jean • Jessica Findley • Ji Lee • Joe Stakun • Jonas Mekas • Jud Turner • Julia Chiang • Kelsey Brookes • Kenzo Minami • Kenny Scharf • Kevin Foxworth • Lauren Silberman • Leo Fitzpatrick • Lisa Romans • Made in Queens • Marc Sich • Marco Mucig • Martha Cooper • Maripol and Lino • Massan Fluker • Matteo Di Nisio • Maya Hayuk • Mike Giant • Nathaniel Freeman • Nesta Mayo • Paolo Bertocchi • Patrick Trefz • Peter Sutherland • Rajan Mehta • Rich Jacobs • Ryan Humphrey • Scott Campbell • Silver Warner • Steve MacDonald • Stuart Semple • Suzette Lee • Takuya Sakamoto • Taliah Lempert • Tristan Eaton • William Robbins & Jeffrey Robbins • Wonka • Yatika Starr Fields

Postcard artwork:
Treatzone and Ramblin Worker

Chorus Gallery is proud to present Chris Piascik. Chris is not only riding one of my old Bruiser protos, but he's also an, illustrator, graphic artist and the Cambridge funny man.

Text from OPEN / Chorus:

Aside from being a stand-up guy, he is amazingly motivated. His day-to-day is filled with 8 hours of diligent work at Alphabet Arm, graphics for his line Print Brigade, and a nightly sketchbook illustration, which he publishes here. Check out his site for more!

Good job man!

Jeff at All-City's stokometer is off the charts right now with his new production model Big Block track end. Lookin good man! Let's see the rest of them pics dude.

Speaking of sea beasties, I had my last session with Duke Riley at East River Tattoo last night. He finished my behemoth and it looks phenomenal. There really isn't a better artist for this job. I think it was this piece that got me excited to work with him.

Growing up on the coast of NC and surfing the OBX and hurricane swells, you have to have heard of the sandbars littering the coast referred to as the 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'. These sandbars used to wreck ships and still to this day, can be a treacherous area to navigate. Sailors used to tell tall tales of giant beasts that devoured ships whole and killed the crew.

Well, this is inspired from such a beast. I found an old sailing chart from the 15th century and used that as a precedent. Duke's handy-work did the rest!

Check out more pics here!

OctoPIST-n-SKquID entered the NACCC Chrome artist bag contest. Here are their entries, be sure to check them out. I'm blown away. Such talent. Really awesome man!

KEEP YA HEAD UP!

After months of working on this urban-renewal project, the City of NYC has opened High Line Park to the public. Really amazing use of the old elevated subway line. It seems like a long long time ago that Diller Scofidio + Renfro won the design competition. But it's finally open!

If you're unfamiliar with the project, head over to theHighline.org site. Attached are a few details I really love and one of the winning design renderings.

Coverage via Inhabitat

Speaking of Boston and Geekhouse, the guys have been busy. Dual disk brakes! More info please!

...and a curved seat tube.

Very nice!

Previously:
Geekhouse
Geekhouse Proto?

I'm impressed by this classic little gallery that just popped up on Milano Fixed. The ladies are in wool jerseys, wearing cycling hats, shorts and even wooden-soled-cycling shoes on.

Thank you Cicli Berlinetta and Tino Pohlmann for doing it proper!!

14 Bike Co. from ODGE WONG on Vimeo.

Back in March I posted a picture from a 16mm video shoot with Super Ted. If you recall, it was a nasty wall ride. I know I was looking forward to the video and now here it is, almost 4 months later. Seems as though the video is promoting the new Shop 14!

Really dig it though, very different from the run-of-the-mill web edits. Now go scramble for some 16mm cameras kids, you know you want to!

Previously:
Super Ted in 16mm

Don't miss it! Trust me, last year was epic. Expect a ton of fun!

And while you're at it, head over to the Bicycle Film Festival's website to check out the schedule for your city! NYC, you better BUY YOUR TICKETS!

Matt Lingo is a photographer living and working in LA. He's spent a lot of time documenting the local fixed gear scene in San Diego and has just compiled and finished a book entitled This City Can't Swallow Me.

Here's his description of the project:

"A fixed gear bicycle is a bike with a cog that doesn't have a freewheel mechanism meaning as long as the back wheel is moving, the pedals are moving. Although traditionally used strictly on a velodrome track, more and more riders are choosing these brakeless bikes for use on the road. They have a unique style of riding through traffic that I've tried to capture in this body of work."

Head over and check out some of his shots here! and keep watch on his blog here.

Voise Productions is a new film project outta Vallejo California. Click on the image above to see their mission statement and check out one of their clips below.

オ ンセイcotm2 from Voise on Vimeo.

Lookin good guys! Keep it up.

Brooklyn Machine Works is in Jeff Staple's newest endeavor, Reed Pages.

Check out the entire issue here online.

I have to thank my dear friend Joel, aka Lamour Supreme, for this belated birthday present. When he said "I have something for you", I suspected it'd be some limited edition toy he splooged on worth millions in Japan. When I saw him 2 weeks ago, he brought out a portfolio and handed me a piece of paper.

It's the original Demon On A Track drawing!!!!

I just got a frame for it and am beyond stoked. This is the best birthday present anyone's ever given me. So bad ass man!

THANK YOU!

rendering and reality

A reader forwarded me this project by Alsop Architecture. They said it was 'right up my alley' and they were very right. When I first saw it, I immediately thought it was an MVRDV project. I was wrong obviously. Hell, I even thought it was a Dutch project. Wrong again. This 8-story project was just completed in Manchester.

The parti model of stacking blocks is very much a dutch approach to architecture. In fact, I'm not ruling out that Alsop used MVRDV as a precedent of sorts for it. The project is entitled Chips and consists of "3 fat chips stacked on top of each other". While most projects relate to the context via vernacular stylings, Chips relates through the use of super graphics.

Each mass has text on it that relates to its surrounding neighborhood.

Pretty rad! Head over to Alsop to see more images.

COG magazine is giving away three custom laser engraved Brooks Swallow to the winning team of their first annual COG invitational bike polo tournament.

It's this weekend!!! June 5-7 in Milwaukee, WI USA

Why is it that everyone COG does is so dialed? Must be a Milwaukee thing!

Beautiful!

Juliet Elliott - A stop-frame film from Charge Bikes on Vimeo.

Nick from Charge just sent me this new video featuring everyone's favorite fixed gear hesher chick, Juliet. Very cool project. Jose Martinez has been doing this a lot lately too. Multi-sequenced pictures brought in as a movie.

Lookin good as always!

I know it's already been posted everywhere, but there's something I want to emphasize here...

Look, everyone is into this new cool thing called fixed gears and it seems like in the past few months, we're seeing more and more people express their love for it in various ways. Some people blog, some photograph, some videotape, some write articles, some build, some create and some market. It's really great and we need to support this! Hell, if you have an idea, run with it!

This project is the by-product of real man hours. That man is "Super" Ted James. I've yet to meet Ted, but one day I'd hope to. As always, I extend a welcoming hand to NYC anytime Ted!

14 Bike Co is a recently opened shop in London. Super Ted is building 14 bikes for the shops 14 riders. Those chain gang guys and gals are slowly receiving their frames at the mo' [how's that for vernacular slang?] and even though that's not the final fork [in fact, that's an aftermarket fork], Ted's busy designing and cranking away at these bikes. You can see more pictures here and follow their updates here, at their blog.

Ted, FGLDN and 14 Bike Co, I commend you. GREAT JOB!

Hippo jokes aside, we did shoot some lines for Empire today. We asked Andrew Temkin to come out and snap some shots for the book. Here's a great portrait he took of my bike and me.

Thanks Andy!

Keep Watch at the Bicycle Film Festival for another trailer that will make you want to ride your bike!

... a good foot and a half over them!

Picture by Massan via DQM

Arik Roper, the man behind the some of the album artwork of Sleep, High on Fire, Earth and others has a new book out called Mushroom Magick. I missed the opening party last Friday, which I'm bummed about, but the book is now available!

Roper also did a recent collaboration with Mishka, which will be available shortly!

Go bigger!

Via. Hardcourt Bike Polo

Today is shaping up nicely. I got free coffee from Gimme! for commuting to work by bike today (which I do anyway, everyday). But still, free iced coffee is always an added bonus. Which reminds me, it's bike month, so give your girlfriend (or boyfriend) the ride of their life!

Affinity just got a new facelift last weekend. Rimx came in and painted a huge mural. He started Thursday night and it took him until the wee hours of the morning to finish it.

Came out dope. Swing by the shop to check it out!

They should be getting in another addition to the shop soon. Something I helped them out on.

From what I can tell, this guy Toku rides hard. He's always making appearances on Sexy Sushi's Flickr riding his neon BMW.

These two recent uploads, in grainy black and white are tell tale signs of the riding that's going on today.

Great shots man!

This weekend brings the 5th-annual Bicycle Fetish Day. Last year was a great time and my fingers are crossed that the weather will hold out.

The City Reliquary Museum & Civic Organization is proud to present
The 5th Annual Bicycle Fetish Day
This Saturday, May 9th 2009 from 12-6PM
On Havemeyer St. Btw. Grand St. & Metropolitan Ave.
In Williamsburgh, Brooklyn, NYC

If you're coming from the City, here's the location. It's in the middle of Williamsburg on one of the most scenic blocks in the area.

Previously;
Bicycle Fetish Day 4

Wilis made me a pretty rad birthday present this year. I usually don't make a big deal about that time every year, so I don't ever expect anything from anyone. Needless to say, I was pretty impressed with this canvas and am stoked to have it.

Thanks man!

Kenny Scharf's graphics on the Livestrong series Trek TTX has gotta be one of the best collaborative bike frames to date. Something about it reminds me of the old World Industries graphics. Ying and Yang, water vs. fire, etc. I refuse to post the Shepard Fairey one. It's hideous.

via Supertouchart

So I've been meaning to post this for a few weeks but just never got around to it. Two weeks ago, Morgan, the guy who cased the 16 set in Vancouver was visiting NYC. He brought with him a few prints from Travis Jutson.

This one in particular is really great. The digital image doesn't do the printed version justice. Thanks man!

Ku. Jewelry is a small company based in Brooklyn. They started making bike-related pieces in 2007 and are still going strong. Check out their blog here and their site here.

The chainring bolt ear rings are amazing!

Really great work. Great to see artists still thriving in Brooklyn!

Really like this pic from Kyoichi's Flickr set of Shiba Friday. Nice stuff. Sorry, I had to try to remove some of the noise though!

I'm usually not one for tandems or tallbikes, but once again Alan outdoes himself. The details on his new Mutandem are beyond impressive, down the 3ttt Mutant stem...

Check out more information over at Cycling WMD.

When I was in high school, I did a report on DC's urban plan for my AP US History class. After I began researching, I discovered the theory of Masonic influence with the city plan of the District of Columbia. Pentagrams, right angles, the occult...

This was one of the reasons that Architecture school appealed to me and while in my first semester, I began to admire Le Corbusier's work. There's no mistaken the influence his designs have had on my understanding and execution of architecture. But was Corbusier influenced by the occult as well?

A new book by J. K. Birksted entitled, Corbusier and the Occult delves into this notion...

Read below:

"Hidden sources and ambiguous inspirations abound in the work of famous, highly influential architect Le Corbusier, who reinvented himself in his thirties, mythologizing much of his history. This book takes a robust, unblinking look at the blanks in need of filling, covering "as much about the secret sources of Le Corbusier's architecture-that is, of what he threw away and did not want us to know-as it is about modernist relations to history." As a child, Le Courbusier (then Charles-Édouard Jeanneret) was immersed in Masonic thought (a big part of social life in his Swiss hometown), which elevates the right angle as a symbol of righteousness and life. Le Corbusier's inspiration by, and celebration of, the right angle is a major theme; he referred to his own Poem of the Right Angle representing "not only the foundation of my being but also... of my architecture and of my art." UK scholar Birksted unpacks a wide range of philosophical and aesthetic meanings resonating through Le Courbusier's work. Though it deepens the scholarship considerably, the exhaustive study's meandering narrative makes the material more than a little confusing. Still, the bold connections he makes should hold the interest of art and architecture fans."

Really feeling this Mike Giant piece. Cinelli offered to trade him a Supercorsa Pist for a drawing. After he sent it into them, they liked it so much, they decided to release it as a limited-edition poster. Nice work man!

Via Gearsnbeers via Milano Fixed

Project Midas has an interview up with my favorite street artist of all time, Delta. Head on over now to see more of his work and read the interview. Being an Architect, you can see why I appreciate his style of work.

Thanks for the heads up Fixpatrix!

Previously:
Elms Lesters Presents Delta
Delta Interview
Delta Deck for Mekanism

David Perez Shadi, aka Kai's pops has a great post over at his blog, Staring Down the Barrell of a Gun on the OG messenger days in NYC.

Here are two of the many pics from the post. I'm not going to copy the text from it because you should go over and read it for yourself.

Wallpaper magazine, the source for high-end design, has a video up showcasing a man and his wife's dream home. The house slides open within minutes, exposing large spans of glass and the beautiful summer sky.

Really great design. Sensible nods to the vernacular without compromising the modern, high tech nature of such an idea.

The cinematography reminds me of something KDlab would have done years ago, but in rendered form.

KDlab's reel using Cliff Martinez's score from Solaris.

Joseph Kosinski is a maniac...

Thanks Ryan!

I am beside myself at the moment. Literally. I have no words. My friend Nick James was teasing me a few weeks ago about making a comic about me. I thought he was kidding. Then he showed me a sample... He's done great work before that I've posted, but I've never seen anything like this!

Follow the rest of the story here, at Nick James' portfolio site.

Click the image to see the full resolution file.

Previously:
Streetwear

Anthony Cozzi was one of the artists in this year's Art Crank. At the opening he sold through his first edition.. Now there's a second edition available for preorder at his site here.

I diggem!

If you're in Minneapolis around the first of May, make sure to swing through the One on One Studio and see Stevil's gallery show. I went to see his work at Invisible last fall and it's something you outta not miss!

All you photoshop wizzes and photographers, get your cameras out and take some shots for the Swobo Intern B Photo Contest.

Photos are due on May 15th and the winner will be displayed on Guyswhocuttheirownhair on May 16th.

All the details are on the flier!

Kyle's DQMxTrackstar Pista Concept resurrected in this poster for a Norman, Oklahoma art show called Bicylette Artshow. Each of these posters / art pieces were then made into spoke cards for sale at the show.

Nice concept! Bike and art show.

Thanks Kris!

Jun's latest work reminds me of my field assignments in architecture school analyzing positive and negative space in urban fabrics.

Really great! Let's see more man!

I've been looking into more and more modern-day track builds as of recently. It seems like a level of precision and craft has been achieved as of late due to the growing trend in track bikes. It makes you wonder, would these guys be pushing the aesthetic envelope like this if track bikes weren't so popular? This track end reminds me of a cell wall found in plant cells. Nicely done.

Vanilla kills it with their Speedvagen bikes.

Joel is the man. I met him through the NYC Fixed Gear scene after seeing his artwork everywhere. Eventually I introduced him to Mike and Greg at Mishka and since then, he's done literally oodles of projects with them. From a giant Cyco Simon head, to a Boogieman and now he's showcasing his latest design at their retail shop this Friday at 7pm.

The Mongolion has been posted here before and here's its final incarnation. Pretty impressive man!

Via the Bloglin.

Another image sequence video from Jose Martinez! Beautiful Jose. Keep it up!

Oh hell yeah! Definitely checking this out on Sunday.

Illustrator Tod Kapke just forwarded me two pieces he worked on for Bicycling Magazine. Check out his blog here and be on the look out for the illustrations in Bicycling next month!

I cannot imagine the amount of work that went into this model. It took two brothers 9 years to construct and the level of detail is maddening. This particular scene is relevant. Even the stance of the fallen rider was planned.

Check the rest of the pictures and the article out here on the Dailymail.

We can all thank Kyle for scanning in Pedal Speed 1. This pic is really great. Love the vintage path racer hanging in the window adorned with Williams cottered inch pitch cranks and an underslung stem.

The architecture looks pretty interesting too.

“Forever” bicycles by Ai Weiwei, 2003

Clever idea; 6 years old and I never saw it? As Nicole points out, reminds me of a massive bike pile at some post-bike event party.

pics by Miha Matei

My good friend Devotion just finished up his first frame. The complete bike is stunning and definitely a noble steed worthy of his already insane stable. All of his builds seem effortless and completely comfortable. Read below as he describes what went into this work of art...

picture by Miha Matei

The build of the bike was very much inspired by British "club racers" and "all-rounders" of the 50's and 60's. Being my first frame, I liked the idea that a single bike could be built to be ridden with a number of intentions. British racers used to ride geared/fendered bikes to the track, often carrying a spare set of track wheels on fork mounted "sprint carriers" and then convert it to a "path racer"...only to re-install the fenders, brakes and other bits before heading home.

Knowing that I will never part with this first frame, I wanted a versatile build that I could set up in a number of ways for the rest of my life. The clamp-ons and 120mm rear spacing mean I can set it up as a fixed-gear, 5 or 10 speed with relative ease. Truth be told, I just wanted an excuse to gather all of the cool old Campy bits. While it does have fender clearance, it's more of a vintage racing bike (traditional racing geometry of 73 degrees parallel) than a vintage rando bike.

Wanna see more? Check out his gallery here.

Jose the man Martinez!

Superuse is a collection of designers whose intent is to reuse and reappropriate scrap building and industrial materials. Spearheaded by by 2012 Architects and Suite75, the collective is pushing the boundaries of green design.

Once again, the Dutch nail it! Below are chairs from Bomdesign.

via Fabrik Project

Viktor Vauthier has some pics from a recent filming session with Super Ted. That's a crazy wall ride! Great setup. Can't wait to see the video.

Check out this series of ad campagns Aduana did for Absolut vodka! Strange ads... but beautiful.

Thanks Steve!

I am really really feeling these paintings by Borja Bonaque.

If the stark and geometric architectural paintings aren't enough, there's always this group of skate decks...

I go to Philly for the day and this happens? Looks like KAWS, the artist who's work has literally blown the hell up over the past few years did a collaboration with Trek (do they even know who he is?) to paint Armstrong's Livestrong bike.

wow.

via Supertouch Art

Another Toolbox from Ch0mb0! See it bigger here!

Kevin, aka Demoncats, has just upped some of his Monster Track X pics. Head over and checkem out. Who's this jackass making the Egyptian hand signals?

Also, DELCO!

Sasha, you dirty dog. Can't wait to see this built up!

As a continuation of his Toolbox comic series, Ch0mb0 has just released a new one. Pretty funny. See it bigger here.

Kyoichi has been making a series of images showing how to set up a photo shoot for tricks. It's really great to have someone share their set up and process. Check out the flickr page here where he lays it all out!

I've posted about Razzle camouflage multiple times in the past; 1,2 and 3 previous posts.

Now the RISD Fleet Library has an exhibition and lecture series on the WWI camouflage.

"Razzle dazzle" was a form of camouflage used by the US and UK during WWI. Its intent was to cause miscalculation in estimation of the ship's speed and direction. The visual rangefinders of the time were easily fooled by the contrasting and overlapping geometric patterns. The markings of such camouflage have since then made their way into different forms of artistic expression. Now I'm not sure that artists pulled from 'razzle dazzle' as a form of precedent, but the similarity is striking. Here is a beautiful image of such camouflage patterns. Unfortunately, there were no color images of these war ships.

Jeff over at Bike Jerks has been documenting a small company's preparation for the NAHBS.

The company is Peacock Grove and check out the latest from them!

Including this gnarly disk wheel!

I wish I was going to the NAHBS this year, but unfortunately, MONSTER TRACK X is this weekend!

A little joke Tony and I talked about doing for the raw steel MKE framesets. Yeah baby I like it raw! Looks like we're gonna be making sticker packs. So keep tuned!

Thanks for the help Eddie!

Sixty Days – Day 16 from glenn weatherson on Vimeo.

Tony shot me over to Zlog to check out this film project entitled Sixty Days. The artist, Glenn Weatherson is documenting his time spent on house arrest.

This is a new series where I will share my day while being stuck in an apartment on house arrest.

That’s right, I will be outside a total of 6 hours per week. Time to get real.

Pretty funny.

I don't need to point out the naked woman because this picture was already relevant to my interests. Great perspective, focal point and composition. Love the Architecture and the surrealist wall the cyclist is emerging from. Classic Cinelli ads are the best.

Not sure where I came across this, I did just see it on Milano Fixed and HK Fixed though.

From the guy who brought you STREETWEAR! comes Dick Jones....

Keep an eye out for future pieces!

David Perez Shadi is a well-known NYC photographer. His son, Kai is a well-known ripper on the streets. G Shock makes tough-ass watches.... See where this is going?

All you Santa Monica heads better go to this! Including you Kyle.

Superprecise is out of London. Not really sure if it's a company or just someone making shirts, but I really like what they're doing.

These pedal shirts look awesome! For ordering information, go here!

At the Many Many Many Many Mey opening I picked up a Gargamel toy that Mishka made for the show. Pretty great. Even though the colors are fucked up in my picture, it's supposed to be their seafoam and magenta pantones.

I'm not really into Kaiju, but I thought this was a special purchase.

CK came out to Peel Sessions again and snapped a few shots of the guys.

These dudes come out every Thursday regardless of the weather. Thanks for the pics man!

Sasha finally did it. He got an 'old man tinker' bike. Not a bad find either. 1950's Dick Power path racer. From Woodside Queens, the Dick Powers are a local legend. Great catch man. Can't wait to see the BSA and Chater Lea bits that'll make their way onto it!

More pics here.

YEAHHHH! Cog.

Good Magazine has an awesome editorial illustration on how much fuel it takes for different kinds of transportation to travel 350 miles.

Check it out, full resolution here.

The Bicycle Film Festival keeps growing and growing each year. Be a part of this growth, make a bike movie! The deadline is March 7

Enter the Ninth Annual Bicycle Film Festival! This annual event's looking for films with a bike-related theme. Any style's acceptable: animation, experimental,narrative, documentary and music videos are all a go.

The Bicycle Film Festival travels to over 20 cities around the world, including Paris, London, Tokyo, New York -- and Sydney. Last year, more than 100,000 people attended the festival. The BFF is a lot of fun and includes rock shows, block parties, film screenings, and art shows. The Bike Film Fest is expected to be a huge success in 2009. All cities have been selected and dates for NEW YORK are June 17-21. All other dates will be set within the month.

Mike Jones is one of Mishka's full-time graphic designers. He's the creative brain behind a lot of their work and is generally a good guy once you peel away the knuckle tattoos [TEAM WORK!], gilded grillz and his Ninja Turtle fetish.

Check out his work here!

McBride Charles Ryan chose the parti diagram of a klein bottle for this house in Mornington Peninsula, Australia. Not sure how precisely it mimics the geometric formula, but the execution of materiality is pretty spot on!

I'm surprised there aren't more books about bikes and people. So far, my favorite is Fast Eddie's Bike Messenger's Life. Peter Sutherland's book that came with Pedal is also a good one. There was also one of the Seattle-based Fast Friday gang.

Julius from Orlando sent me information on Pedals Plus People, a book about a year's worth of bike events and people who attended them.

Check it out!

Delugan Meissl Associated Architects' newest project recently opened in Stuttgart, Germany. When high-end architecture and high-end automobile manufacturers come together, you can expect things of great beauty and engineering. When the automobile maker is Porsche, you can expect nothing less than perfection.

I'll let the images speak for themselves. Via WorldArchitectureNews.

You may have seen these 3RRR chainrings floating around on the blogosphere recently. After checking out their site, I saw a hand-sculpted, resin-cast toy they made. Pretty great detail on this little guy. Obviously a throwback homage to Rat Fink.

I just came across Chelsea Greene Lewyta's portfolio site and man, this work is incredible. So nice. I'm in love with every one of her pieces. Grotesque, yet elegant in an Art Nuovo way. Definitely influenced by Japanese culture as well.

Lucas just bought himself a new retro fish and a nice winter suit. The combination brought him out to Far Rockaways yesterday. Blake went along to take some pics and they came out beautifully.

Lucas, these pics make me wanna get out my 5mm and join you! Just need a different stick!

New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.

...and this video just shows it! NYC is like no other place on Earth. So beautiful! Seen over at Fixpatrix!

Andy over at Fyxomatosis finally got done playing around down under and uploaded the full General Lee gallery. Great shots man. You always get me in trouble with the lady!

2008 New York Bicycle Film Festival - FULL from jmartinez on Vimeo.

Last night at Bike Shorts, Jose Martinez took 2nd place for his extended [and High-def] version of his previous BFF 2008 photostream animation.

Check it out here in HD!

Come out to Bike Shorts 8! The weather's gonna be nice. This time it's at Galapagos' new home in DUMBO.

IFC choice film about a one-night stand in SF featuring track bikes!

Info here and here.

I Love Dust did a series of bike-related illustrations showcasing white saddles, chains, untaped bars and crazy pursuit geometries. Really nice in my opinion. You can also acquire these pieces at Click for Art.

taken from Hypebeast via Fubiz. I swear, it's almost everyday now that Hypebeast has a bike-related post. Pretty rad!

Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch mastermind behind Office For Metropolitan Architecture has influenced many architecture students and practicioners over the years. He's the driving force behind internationally acclaimed masterpieces like the CCTV building, the Seattle Public Library and the Porto Concert Hall.

Now he's inspired a typeface. FWIS used Koohaas' Miesian typologies to create a typeface that's more representative of his work, rather than a usable type.

"‘koolhand’ is a new type face which takes its form from the architectural works of rem koolhaas.
the typeface is designed by fwis and art directed by chris papasadero. he is aiming to design a font
a day for the month of january and is posting them on his website. while the letters in ‘koolhand’
aren’t really designed for legibility, papasadero envisions them for textural treatments. "

Andy, you're going to get me in trouble with the misses if I post this and make a single comment about anything but the bike. So that being said, nice bike.

...it's no CJ-7, but that's one hell of a ride!

Edit: I almost forgot about this pic I took 2 years ago.

I just got an awesome email from Ben over at Argonaut Cycles. A bit back I posted some sexy stainless steel lugwork and dropout detailing from Drew Lavicka's custom track bike. Well, Ben just sent me updated pics of the final build and it is drop dead gorgeous. Literally. I am blown away at how nice this beast looks!

How's that for US-made frame work Kyle?

Joel's a busy guy. When he's not designing cabinetry for his shop in Long Island, he's either designing stickers, t-shirts, large skulls, painting huge naked girls and even making his own limited toy.

Check out this collaborative effort between Super 7 and his moniker Lamour Supreme. I never really dove into the Kaiju / Japanese limited toy collection game, partially because it's such an expensive hobby and frankly, my girlfriend would kill me if I spent anywhere near the amount of money on some of their price tags.

This however I think will be my first. Joel, lookin good man. Keep it up! and let me know when I can get one of these!

If you're nice to me and send me a self-addressed stamped envelope I'll mail you one of these stickers. Joel the pen-rippa inked this Swamp Thing throwback artwork for Mishka recently. Joel's been doing a ton of work for the Brooklyn-based label and this is by far my favorite. Below is a pic of the sticker. Somewhat obscured by the snow!

check the comments for my address...

Jean-Yves Lemoigne is a French photographer who did an editorial piece on pornography and pixels. It looks like he built a 3d model of the girls out of 1" cubes and matched the lighting of the real scene with the digital scene through most likely a process known as camera-mapping.

Really nice.

The Basque Health Department Headquarters by Coll-Barreu Arquitects in Ensanche, New Town, Spain is really getting me hot and bothered. Not so much for the crystalline facade, but for the way they treated the stair shafts. Look at it! BRIGHT GREEN. Please please American Architects and Designers, loosen the color-phobia and if you have to keep everything monotone, at least liven up the stair halls! Color is your friend!

Seen at Yatzer.

Bright Bike from Michael Mandiberg on Vimeo.

One of the reasons why I like posting about an open-ended topic is the slew of emails I get from people in response to said topic. Check out Bright Bike!

Bright Bike is a Retroreflective Vinyl coated bike. It is like coating your bike with a big sticker that turns ultra-brite in headlights.

Right now we are in the prototyping stages, and hope to offer a DIY Kit soon. We just held a bike-wrapping workshop at Eyebeam's Holiday Hackshop (you can see the video at left) and it was a lot of fun. We also released an instructable, making it clear how anyone can wrap there bike. Check it out: Bright Bike Instructable.

If you can't wait that long, contact Beacon Graphics in NJ for Scotchlight 680. They have a website: BeaconGraphics.com and you can also reach them by phone: 1 800 762 9205.

To celebrate its two-year anniversary, Seattle-based Flying Coffin teamed up with Manik and GOODS to produce this 5-deck collage set. If you can't fork out all the money for the skate decks, you can always grab a shirt. Head over now to grab one before they're all gone!

Hailing from Oslo, Norway, Rintala Eggertsson Architects created this 19 square meter house. It is essentially living stripped to the minimal requirements. Smart living. Programmed living. The reason this project strikes me as beautiful is mostly because of the material choices. The exterior looks like Leviathan out of the Hellraiser movies and yet the inside is clad with a nice warm wood. The structure is also framed from wood.

Typically in the US and other countries when Architects create minimal dwellings such as this, the cold and harsh materials will continue to the interior, resulting in a house that feels more like a prison than a warm and welcoming home.

First seen at Dezeen and then redirected to Rintala Eggersson's homepage.

More to come!

Check this photo out. It was sniped from HKFixed by Tracko and now I'm re-posting for relevance.

NYC has a HUGE Frejus following. A lot of the old heads here used to and still do ride these bikes. My buddy Matthew has a beautiful chrome Frejus with Campy Inch Pitch and Cinelli components, which I've posted before.

This guy is lookin dapper as hell.

Fabrik Project just posted this project by the Portuguese architect Pedro Gaganho. I've seen Pedro's work before and his use of heavy geometric shapes is often at the building-scale. Some would think such a design approach would be clunky and out of place in a smaller space scaled for the everyday, but I think this is perfection. The proportions are scaled down in such a way that the geometries pull the occupant into the various programmed spaces.

Not just anyone could pull this off!

More pics here.

This Jud Turner sculpture is pretty metal. What else could you ask for? A chrome skeleton and a bike. Look! Bonespins!

Ed Glazar has re-upped his website. Check out his web portfolio for some great NYC cycling photos. You can also see a few pics from Ed in the new Cog Photo Issue.

If that's not enough, check out his Flickr here as well!

Below the Clouds has linked a recent Surface Architects project that is blowing me away at the moment. The detailing and execution is pristine. There's no easy way to fabricate those intersecting facets.

Read up on the Birkbeck Project here! They just won a RIBA award for it as well.

Thanks to Gabe for the heads up.

I just got my COG photo issue in the mail, along with a COG shirt. The print is really great, colors are vivid and the cover is printed on a satin paper with the COG logo in a glossy oil. Geeky stuff like that really makes my day. Great job guys!

Mr. Kevin from COG magazine just sent me this sexy-ass image from their forthcoming Photo Annual. Forthcoming as in, get your ass to their site and buy one now before they're gone forever.

Over 100 pages of photographs from throughout the first four issues along with new, unseen images. Bi-lingual captions*, silkscreened hardcover signed limited edition of 2500 copies.
All this in a 12"×9" high-quality offset printed book.

Here's Devotion's classic Frejus with a Cinelli adjustable stem. Titan also made a similar quill and the idea was that rather than making multiple stem lengths, you just make one that's adjustable for different rider's specifications.

Sexy as hell and a bit pricey for NOS and used they fetch upwards of $200 USD. Even though it's vastly inferior to today's threadless stems in terms of stiffness, the old school track nuts go bonkers over them.

Eventually they just made varying lengths, as evident in my old Titan bar / stem combo that was on my Higgins.

Jose, the man Martinez is finally back in NYC after traveling around documenting drift-car sporting events. He was out recently in Union Square shooting pics of the usual night riders, Alex and Mano.

Great shots dude! Alex and Mano, where you been mates?

Stainless steel madness!

Argonaut's a frame builder out of Portland. I have to say, this is some of the most beautiful work I've seen in a long, long time. Just check out Drew's custom!

Great work. Keep it up!

Wood Wood, home of the browser-expanding website and crazy flash animations teamed up with Medicom Toy Corporation to design a World-Champion Striped Bearbrick.

I'll buy it.

Just what I needed today.

Via Design you Trust. Art by Glenn Jones

Brooklyn-based Squarebuilt has launched their website. After flipping through Lance's blog posts, I came across these pics. This is what it's all about. A bike bred from fire and is just pure evil. Dark Horse indeed dude!

I can't wait to see what Lance comes up with next! Great job man!

Cannondale designed a stealthy new concept bike and then fucked it up by putting flat bars on it. Integrated flat bars at that.

Honestly, how are you going to break the sound barrier on flat bars?

Where's the integrated monocoque Cetma rack? How am I going to carry a 12 pack of Budweiser on this thing? Sheesh.

Ok, it looks really cool and is entirely monocoque, including the chain and seat stays. Cannondale claims that it won't go into production at the moment, but that elements from it will appear in future Cannondale models.

Photographer Ben Ingham took a series of photographs for cycling wear company Rapha recently in the Swiss Alps. Out of all the shots, this one captures the spirit of cycling. It's timeless.

The photographs are silver gelatin archival prints and were printed in limited quantities.

All you bike nerds, get your nerdom on. Is that a word? Nerdom? Anyway, the lovely Minx has alerted me that the Team Pegasus calender is done.

Be sure to select either the SFW or NSFW version.

What's the deal with all the nakedness in calenders lately? Shitty economy + visual stimuli of the nude female variety = happy people?

Whatever it is, it must be working.

I won't say anything... just read it here.

I've also copied the text and took a screen shot here on my Flickr. I really want to have a beer with that dude.

!!!!!!!!

Mayslits Kassif Architect's have made what looks like an epic place to ride a bike or a skateboard. Surface articulation with regards to urban plazas is something the rest of the modern world seems to do so well. American building codes and clientele seem to keep landscape, building and urban designers on the flat z-axis, which is unfortunate.

The Tel Aviv Port looks like an awesome plaza. Great job.

Via Dezeen.

Having photographer's blogs and Flickr feeds on my RSS reader is always a good way to brighten up the day. As of now I have SexySushi's, Kyoichi's, Falcon Duran's and Ed Glazar's on my Google Reader.

Once and a while a pic of myself pops up in the mix. Love the NYC randomness on Falcon's pics, the environment and composition of Ed's, the new bike gear and even food on Kyoichi's and the new tricksters in Japan on Sexy Sushi's.

Keep it up guys!

By RSVP Studio of New York. Not so sure this really works as well as their rendering wants you to think it does. Bikes weigh different amounts. Still interesting nonetheless. Via the NYCity Racks Blog.

Sorry for the NSFW image but this is worth posting...

Mishka has just dropped both our jaws and a new calender on their Bloglin.

They teamed up with Ellen Stagg once again to shoot a pretty hot calender.

They offer the calender for $30 by itself, or you can get a shirt with it for $50. Not bad.

Devotion is a maniac. He is the most bicyentric person I know and this is just the tip of the iceberg. In the tradition of modifying 1960's Campagnolo downtube shifters, he has re-shaped these with a slight bend, that in his words "Kinda looks like a 70's coke spoon".

Well done my friend.

Jonathan at WeShouldDoItAll is a hustler. I met him 4 years ago here in NYC and he was just starting his own company. Fast forward to the present and WSDIA is a well-known design firm. They just re-upped their site so if you're never been, now's your chance to be introduced to their award-winning work!

I've been a fan of Richard 'French' Sayer for some time now and read his blog whenever he's posting consistently. His work is inspired by metal and the darkness that surrounds the genre. The Goat of Hades piece and the White Knight are my two favorites. I always mean to pick up a shirt or a print of his when they're for sale but I always forget to before they sell out.

Now there's a new outlet to pick up his work. Vetika has a ton of French prints and shirts. Head on over and give them a look.

Dave's a lucky guy. Not only does his family have a long, long history in cycling, but he also has a sick bike work station at his architecture office. He was building it up for a family member and the end product is gorgeous! That's a pretty awesome rug I might add as well.

This LOOK Mondrian road frame equipped with Campagnolo SUPER Record 11 is a roadie's wet dream. These frames are so beautiful and I'm sure the test ride Dave took it on today was worth while!

Elmer Presslee has created some insane art pieces in the past. His work stands heads above the rest and this new piece is no different.

Check out Herculouse, his newest sculpture.

I love My Pet Monster. First Mishka makes a hat and now this Japanese brand Please Touch Me makes this grotesque creation! Seriously, what is wrong with the Japanese! Found on the Candy Myspace and via Is-Mental.

[no offense JAN crew!]

Thanks to Andrew in the Trackosaurus comments for this!

House of Copenhagen has re-issued one of my favorite chairs in Architectural / Furniture Design history, "the Shell Chair". Unfortunately, It's way out of my price range. Read up below.

Carl Hansen & Son, the world's leading maker of furniture designed by Hans J. Wegner, celebrated its 100th anniversary on October 28th, 2008

Hans J. Wegner CH07 Limited Edition

Designed by Hans J. Wegner in 1964, "The Shell Chair" is one of Wegner's most iconic pieces. Sometimes referred to as "The Smiling Chair", CH07 is renowned for both its lasting good looks and its generous comfort. This limited anniversary edition is crafted from exclusive xebrano veneer (a first for the CH07) and upholstered in Elegance Special Brown leather, a supple aniline specially chosen for its rich color and soft texture.

Holy, I mean Satanic Shit! James, you maniac, hook it up!

Andy, my red-bearded brethren from down under, sent me this photo and it made my day. True bike porn. C-Record Delta brakes are some of the sexiest bicycle components ever made. Form and function [arguable in some camps] conquer all!

Thanks Andy, once again, you deliver!

These pieces by British artist William Roberts (No, not Rick Ross, different artist) just struck me as note-worthy. The one on the left is entitled Combat, 1915 and on the right is Les Routiers, 1931. Roberts being a Cubist often distorted figures into complex compositions. These two pieces are so similar that they made me think of how everyday as cyclists, we're in combat with other elements.

Wear your helmet and be safe out there.

Anna Telcs and I worked on a submission for NYC's competition to design new bicycle racks for the City.

The design intent was to create two racks in one, eliminating the dead zones created by staggering bicycles. We were also going for a less-expensive, easy to produce and install approach, which many designs lacked.

I know we didn't win, but I'm happy with the way it turned out.

Nick James is not only one of the most dapper lads I know, but his artwork is always impressing me. Check out this piece he just completed. Entitled "Streetwear"... I felt it was relevant to the recent post regarding Pharrell