As Fabian {WolfPack Hustle celebrity} informed me, the fix gear crowd is “growing up” and, as a consequence, it’s jack’n new life into the velo community.  One place in particular is the Encino Velodrome; it’s finding a lot of new enthusiasm cranked into its veins from the maturing crowd of “fixie” riders.  One of the [...]

The Victory of the Yellow Jersey has depleted the Wiggins Fred Perry collection to “back-stock.” Gotta Love iT. I’m still reeling from an overwhelming finish on the Champs Elysee watching Jens Voigt drive a break of 5 riders with a 22 second lead working hard & honestly to stay away from the bunch to claim [...]

This week (Friday, Saturday & Sunday) is the Bicycle Film Fest at the CineFamily in Los ANgeles.  On Sunday at 7:00pm, in full 35mm, you can see “Sunday in Hell” A quote from CineFamily’s website: From the mind of Jorgen Leth, one of Scandinavia’s filmmaking legends, comes the ultimate portrait of one of Europe’s most [...]

Sir Paul Smith: ‘I get goosebumps thinking about Tour de France’ Click the image below to open the link to the Guardian to play the slide show with a narrative by Paul Smith: he talks about the Tour, collecting jerseys and his excitement about racing {featured in today’s the Guardian}. I love July. Paul Smith [...]

Today [Tuesday 07-17] is a rest day for the riders in the Tour de France.  You’ll find Wiggins wandering around town, lounging in the hotel or on the team bus, dapper and mod in his “Après-Attack” attire fashioned by Fred Perry. “My goal has been to develop an authentic, non technical range of off cycle [...]

Do you have what it takes to be a Drag [race] Queen? A WolFPack HuSTLe event is the perfect venue to jack’it out for cycling and throw it all under the urban calamity of Downtown Los Angeles and the 2nd StREet tunnel. Put it on the calendar: Saturday July 28. We’ll start with a ride up [...]

Wiggins of Great Britain, Team Sky, is wearing the Yellow Jersey in the Tour de France after Stage 10.  Reporters and Twitter posts have been bleeding out the same line of shit trying to create a story: What about Doping? Wiggins demonstrated his disdain for the media’s preoccupation as bottom feeders.  It’s great to hear [...]

Successful design is irresistible.  Sometimes an obscure object of consumption becomes a desire simply because its design qualities sing the song of the siren and you cannot fight the urge to possess it.  And sometimes the object is simply a flagrant marketing ploy. Cadence: the how of the company is apparent but their success confuses [...]

tumblr is a strange environment of  personal visual perspectives on stuff.  tumblr participants are posting images from intertwining, overlapping worlds where the same pictures pop up in multiple tumblr sites.  if you’re looking for bike porn, you’ll find it at tumblr.  pedalare.pedalare is one such site that’s dedicated to cycling.  these pictures are a sampling [...]

The book originated in print [i plan on ordering it] and now it’s jacked out for the iPad [i downloaded it last night].  Heuristic Media’s Cyclepedia App takes their print volume and goes digital in a super touch presentation.  [iTunes: $9.99 / Print: $23 ] 126 bikes from one man’s collection, started in 2003: pan, [...]