Fred {ha!} Perry has some alternative vêtements to the Wiggins collection {which is currently sold out}: Spot Print Cycling Shirt.

I love this shirt; it’s complete with rear pockets.

More over LuLu Lemon.

muY AniMauX Fashionista!

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 star advocates of the cultural cataclysm is Golden Saddle Cyclery in Los Angeles at the western edge of the SilverLake District just off Sunset Blvd.  I’ve got a day trip planned to go visit the shop in the hood of my adolescence.  Who wants to join me?

Fix’N AnimAuX!

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 the biggest kind of honorable victory on the final day of the Tour.  The Peloton was barely able to eat up the gap until the final lap.  My palms were sweaty and my heart was in my throat.  You can’t help but to feel an emotional connection to a big hero of the Peloton.  We love Jens.

Il est Animaux!

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 grueling cycling events.  Few people think of mud, sweat, blood, pain, agony and other unmentionables when something as sweet-sounding as “bicycle race” is uttered, but the annual Paris-Roubaix tour, one of professional cycling’s oldest contests, has rightly earned its moniker of “A Sunday In Hell.”  Armed with what seems like an entire French village’s worth of cameramen, and a brilliantly minimalist, Popol Vuh-esque synth score, Leth seamlessly builds the mounting tension throughout the 1976 tour’s events — from pre-game breakfast pig-outs, to the frantic opening salvos by race frontrunners, flat tires, bruised riders carried away on stretchers and beyond.  With a deft, Spielbergian flair for tracking an endless number of racers’ positions throughout the journey, Leth brilliantly pours on the claustrophobia, as both racers and their carloads of support teams hurtle towards each other in a death-defying 40MPH ballet (conducted mostly on shared small-town cobblestone roads.)  A bike fanatic’s dream documentary, and one of the great sports films of all time.
Dir. Jorgen Leth, 1976, 35mm, 111 min.

From Youtube (1hr 32min – looks like the whole film [?] ):

Note: Jorgen Leth also did Stars & Watercarriers, a film about the great riders and their domestics.

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 collaborated on the book and iPad app Cyclepedia: Iconic Bicycle Designs {available for iPad for $9.99, developed by Heuristic Media in partnership with Thames & Hudson}.

Muy Tour dE France Animaux!

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 wear that is inspired by the best of the sport’s unique heritage – something I am hugely passionate about. Fred Perry offered me that opportunity.”

Visit Fred Perry to see the details.

The shoot was done in the legendary shop in Finsbury Park, London: Sargent & Co.

I love these shirts. I’m gonna have to get one in black or maybe all three.
Yuz OTB LuLu-Lemon!

Muy Fashionista Animaux!

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 the LA River Trail from Long Beach to the WurstKucht for beer and brocks and then head over to the event.
Tentative Schedule:
Depart Long Beach 4:15 [BeachWood BBQ Downtown Long Beach]
Arrive Wurstküche 5:45
Head over to the Tunnel at 6:45
Register to Race: 7:00
Put it on the LiNE: 8:00

The Mexican is gonna jump the chicken – fishnet and all!  Who eLSE iS In?

Metro-Rail back to Long Beach: 12:00 midnight (the last train to salvation).

If you’re in: RSVP animaux[@]cogjoint.com

Visit WolfPack Hustle for more details.

eres tu reina de la fricción {puTA} AniMAux?

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 an athlete take a stand against a tired line of questions and refuse a standard response that says as much as a politician on the campaign trail.  Wiggins has become a hero beyond the grace of wearing the Yellow Jersey.  He’s showing a public persona full of tenacity just like cycling’s beloved Badger.  Everyone loved the Badger {Bernard Hinault}; he was renowned for giving a straight answer to the media when they insisted on asking stupid questions.  You’ve got to love an athlete who’s not afraid to get back to the reality of being human and kick media slackers to the curb.

Wiggins: “I just said what I think.  If I’d lost my cool this table would have been on the floor and that’s the difference. I don’t feel like I need to sit here and justify to everyone.  I’m not some shit rider who has come from nowhere. . . .”

When asked: “What do you say to the cynics who think that you have to be doped up to win the Tour de France?”

After a pause, Wiggins replied: “They are just f***ing w*****s. I cannot be doing with people like that. It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to anything in their lives. It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter rather than get off their arses in their own life and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something, and that’s ultimately it. C***s!”

Wiggins is my new Super-Hero. Animaux.

Cycling News – Read the story (links below):
Wiggins: I’m not some shit rider from nowhere
Wiggins’ Caustic Criticism

B’Animaux!

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 me.  Their presence is inflated by a sense of self-importance and an extreme preoccupation with itself as a brand but there’s little product depth to justify such narcissism.  Cadence is the product and not just a brand so it makes sense they produce items that appear to exist solely to brandish the name.

In comparison, Cinelli has always been a company about cycling products.  The company’s history runs so deep in the cycling industry their existence is a thread in the cultural fabric.  When an item bears the name Cinelli, you aren’t offended; you pause to reflect.  Their reputation [recognition] was earned not just fabricated through a marketing strategy.

Cuidado la contras de las Sirenas Animaux!

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 of images i found there {pedalare}.

click the little dots under the picture above or click the image to navigate through the selection.

fyi: you won’t find credits to the pictures people post on tumblr.

http://pedalarepedalare.tumblr.com/

muy divertidoAmiMauX!