Barista extraordinaire  Remy (Jeremy).

The lovely Lee

Remy and Lees is a super cafe in Surry Hills, Sydney. They have superb coffee, pies, cakes, home made treats, and a really friendly vibe, it’s a great place to hang on a sunny afternoon. The cafe features local artists, photographers and alike so there’s lots of interesting things to check out while you wait for a brew, including our very own Candy Cranks display. Thanks Guys!

Check em out.

Yikes! Came across these on ebay, not sure I’d be in any hurry to rush out and try some. I reckon you could probably do yourself some serious mischief.

And what’s even more disturbing is the guy in ad is without a bike!

You are bidding a Coolmax Bike Cycling Pants with Soft Pad,a ideal product for your indoor or outdoor cylcing, it was made according to the human body shape with COOLMAX+SANITIGED 3D pad, Asota“SANITIGED” fungi-proofing treatment permanently make your cycling more comfortable and health! sags and crests design easy for perspiration, it make cycling more cool and dry!

More here:

this artwork post by Woof, if you like a little somethin’ mention about art & bicycles you can go to> woofjakarta.blogspot.com

This is the 3rd week of Ramadhan, we miss having a nice long ride around Jakarta. So we ride our hub along with our fellow from Sunday Sepeda Sucks, and meet more others in Senayan, The track is Tebet-Senayan-Monas-Pasar Baru-Cikini-Tebet at least 29 Km away (18.0 mi). We start from 21.00  and having Sahur at 03.00 , going home at 04.00 o’clock at dawn.

photo: Sunday Sepeda Sucks .Doc , Woof.Doc

Last night, the Punani Pedal Club had a super wonderful epic turnout at our ride! Over 35 people showed up for an evening ride.. a record number! A few new lovely ladies and many of the AlohaFixed boys showed up to support and have a cruise ride through Waikiki and up the infamous Daimond Head hill.

A crowded sidewalk of cyclists waits for everyone to show up

Some tandem action from Joey and Jessica

Marissa and Kim, 2 new lady additions to the Punani Pedal Club with helmet safety

Naomi sampling Mike’s bike

The ladies in attendance (minus Marie)

Most of the crowd!

Cheers to everyone for this epic turnout, and special thanks to Michael Keany for the fab photos (per usual) and to Sau and Rob for promotion help. It was a great ride and a chance to meet a good majority of Honolulu cyclists. Everyone was friendly with the exception of an altercation with an angry driver, but an overall success! Yay for bikes bringing people together!

downtown airport/skyline

This past Tuesday, David J, Tylor, Bryce, and I crossed the Missouri River and headed north to the Downtown Airport. There’s a lap around the airport that’s roughly 3.7 miles. Our goal was to ride for an hour and see how far we could get.

A history lesson for those who are unfamiliar. Frank Dodd’s for the first person to ride for a conservative hour and record his distance. This was in 1876 and he rode for 16.47 miles. In 1972, Eddy Merckx set a record of 30.715 mi which stood for 12 years. The current record stands at 30.9 mi which was set in 2005 by Ondrej Sosenka.  Due to advancements in equipment and other technologies between the Merckx record and present day, the Union Cycliste International [UCI] has established to classes of records.  There’s the UCI Hour Record [which requires competitors to use the same equiment as Merckx. They can not use time trial helmets, disc or tri-spoke wheels, aerodynamic bars, or monocoque frames] and the Best Human Effort aka the UCI “Absolute” Record.

Merckx Hour Record Bike

Our hour ride went pretty okayyy for the first attempt. We probably should have rode the opposite direction, the head wind was so strong if I would have stopped peddling my bike would have come to a hault. Also, none of us drank enough water before hand. I would not recommend racing against yourself slightly dehydrated in 103 degree sunny weather.  ha! Our final results were as follows.  David J and Tylor both rode about 18.9 miles. I rode for 15-ish, I stopped with five minutes left to vomit [so shocking, I know!] Bryce gave in half-way through so his distance is unknown.  Despite the vomit, the ride was exactly what I needed. I’m convinced I could sustain on endorphins and vitamin d alone. We’ll be repeating this ride next Tuesday as well. Meet us at Broadway Cafe around 4 if you want to ride with us!

Tylor and Bryce waiting for the train on the way back to midtown.

The awesome guys at Urban Velo just put out their September issue (#21). It’s now available for online viewing here! Copies should be available in your lbs soon so go pick some up!

This issue also includes an article by John (Prolly) on the continual evolution of fixed freestyle and the 26″ movement. It’s a really interesting read so go check it out!

I meant to post this last week, but better late than never I suppose. My ESB is finally ready. Big thanks to Velocity, Profile, Shop 14, and Super Ted. The full bike check is now posted up on Zlog so go check it out here!

I’ve been running Brev M’s Drop Bars and Track Grips on my Vigorelli lately. These bars are so gorgeous and have a really classic look. The pista grips are awesome, and by far the best track grips I’ve used so far; they’re grippier and have a lot more cushion (they’re significantly more comfortable than the champ grips). Thanks, guys! Check out other great Brev M products here!

Meg made me a hella cute Candy Cranks chainring for my Vigorelli. Thanks so much girl, I love it! You can get your own here!

FIXED FEST 2010 present by ROCKET

TRICK CONTEST (Quickstop/Trackstand/Trick Battle).MASH RACE.BICYCLE ART EXHIBITION.BICYCLE FILMS.DJ’s and PARTY

Everybody was having a blast!, many people from out of town are coming to celebrate this  first Fixed Gear annual event present by Rocket, in Jakarta, Indonesia. So many prizes, nice people, good food, and the most burnin’ is the trick battle contest, I must say that Bandung riders have many great potential to be the king of trick contest cuz their showin’ their hot stuff to the surface with full of soul and very entertaining, yeah! they really got their got attitude.. salute!. Yogyakarta got their own special hardcore tricks, rough and tough. And special from Jakarta you got a very promising young star, 18 years old Bari Sony Wicksono and 19 years old Herry Patriawan. That’s it for today folks, can’t wait for the next fixed gear events. Cheers!

Saturday, 24 July 2010
@ ROCKET Concept Store, Basement Bengkel Night Park (SCBD), Jakarta, Indonesia.

Supported by : San Mig Light/ID-Fixed/Cixie/FxFw/FuFuFu/Sumvelo/SSS/Woof/Cyclonesia/Arafix/WFG/Cyclo/SouthBeachQueen/Tremorz/Velodome/TLab/SatcaSash/SoberDen

Have a good summer biking story to tell?  Enter the Summer Story Contest and maybe you will come away with some cool prizes.  Deadline is September 10th, so hurry!  More information here.

Last night, our friends at AlohaFixed set up a Honolulu premier of Tokyo to Osaka.

Though it was a short film, it was rather enjoyable. Michael Keany caught me watching the epic journey:

Hipster locking overload:

It was pretty awesome to see the bike racks and trees completely full of colour and wheels on this block!

Its the 9th month of the Muslim Calender, where Muslims celebrate the holy month of Ramadan. For the whole month, we will fast from dawn until sunset. For this month, we would gather about midnite to go for the Sahur Ride. (Sahur = referring to the meal consumed early in the morning by Muslims before fasting).

During this holy month as well, there’s a famous night market in Geylang that sells just about anything related to the upcoming festive month of Shawal, celebrated right after Ramadan. There’s plenty of street vendors selling snacks, curtains, lights… you name it, they’ll have it. Its our 2nd week riding down to Geylang, to eat all the tasty snacks, feeling the festive mood, people watching and some of us dancing stupidly (with their bicycles, hah) to the festive songs that were played all over the street.

Here are some of the picture’s of last night’s ride.

I go to school in Springfield, Missouri so I am officially back here for the school year. A lot of people ask me why I like it down here, or why I decided to come to school here since I’m from Chicago. I took a chance coming down here my first year of school, and I just fell in love with it. I have amazing friends from school, bike friends, and I love the feel of the school. It’s just a relaxing city.

Down here I have a group of bike friends, some who are called the Shiftless Bastards, and they do weekly and monthly rides.

Wednesday night was the Thai Ride in which we meet at the local bike shop, hang out, and then ride to a Thai restaurant that isn’t too far away. It was absolutely great seeing everyone again and it made me really happy. After some delicious food we usually hang out a bit longer.

Last night though was the monthly Final Friday ride. Usually we do some sort of bike event that includes tricks and contests - but since a few of the Bastards were out of town we did a ride down one of the Ozark Greenway Trails instead. We met at a local bar and then rode the Galloway Trail to Galloway Station which is a bar/grill that’s at the end of the trail. We stop there for some snacks then ride back. It’s a nice ride and it brings a lot of bikers together which is why I love it.

One of my biffs, Mk, who resides in Brooklyn sent me a directed my attention to this guerrilla art/bike gang of gals.

Art that’s delivered on two wheels…
Coming soon to NYC: free art, distributed by a roving troupe of bikers
Posted on BroadwayWorld.com, August 16, 2010
Soon New Yorkers will be surprised to find a troupe of bikers, armed with noisy horns and bright flags, handing out rolls of free and original art, fresh out of a gallery. This guerilla-distribution of art will mark the end of this year’s PaperGirl-NY. The art will be distributed after hanging in galleries in Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Albany from August 24 to September 6. PaperGirl was started by Aisha Roniger in Berlin in 2006 as a way to bring art to all walks of life, and New York got its first PaperGirl in 2009 in Albany. The art must be rollable, original, and can be of any size, material, or medium. Anyone can help organize or distribute the art. The show is not curated, none of the art is for sale, and after the showings the art is randomly distributed to unsuspecting strangers. By distributing art in Albany and New York City neighborhoods ranging from rich to poor, commercial to residential, gentrified to recent immigrant, PaperGirl aims to expose new audiences to different arts and artists. PaperGirl 2010 will include at least [100] artists from [12] countries. More information at http://www.papergirl-ny.com/

Considering a large handful of my biking friends are students or grads of KCAI, I wonder if something like this could be successful in Kansas City?

It took her eleven months, but Kate Leeming is finally back at home in Melbourne after becoming what is believed to be the first person to cycle from the most western point of Africa across to the east coast.

Read the full story here.

Thanks Soph!

I had a Burnout Syndrome… I finally got up myself to write about my bike journey to Europe. Sorry,this is kind of old stuff and already passed a few months but I still want to post & share this now otherwise I never will. Europe just melted my heart too bad XD I got a burnout…

I love traveling with my bicycle. I took my coffee bike and went to Leeds and Budapest in May. This was my 1st time being to Europe and there were some big reasons I went there.

♥Reason 1: Meeting my best friend Monika in Leeds. It’s been years to see her; I first met her in Kyoto, Japan and became best friend through the bicycle.

Here are some photos I developed of my trip to Leeds. I was there for only 3 days but had a good time to ride around the city with some friends. Thanks to Monika + Marek and fixed gear leeds crew!

♥Reason 2: Meeting Linda - Candy Cranks author from Budapest. Wowww! Candy Cranks is the great tool to make cool bike friends all over the globe!! I’d never met Linda but we are now really good friends!! Viva Candy Cranks!!

Thanks a lot to Linda to make my trip so much fun, helped me out, put me up and showe me an awesome time!! Hungarian people are so nice and kind. I love Budapest!! (and Gosser Lemon beer!)

♥Reason 3: ECMC (European Cycle Messenger Championships) in Budapest. I am not a messenger but I like to hangout with them and watching the messenger race. They are pretty tough and hardcore cyclist. I love their life style and crazy parties.

Hi cheeeeez! (Japanese photo peace sign, yaaay! :D)

I spread Love Wheels Nagoya Calendars. ♥Thank you♥

Bicycle Fashion Show.

Bike Polo Final.

♥Reason 4: CharRie’s Café (my bike café).
I brought my original coffee beans and all my coffee bike stuff in huge freight baggage backpack from Japan. (It was super heavy to bring them all! :() I was a bit nervous to doing my coffee bike at ECMC for 3 days by myself because I had no friend, only a few Japanese around this event. I knew only Linda and Sinya (organizer of ECMC) and I wasn’t sure if European would love my Japanese coffee… but I had a confidence to make people to love my coffee so Linda was in love♥ yay!

… was sexy ; ) ♥Thanks everyone!

Many people stopped by my bike café, having my coffee and happy talks…♥ It inspired me a lot!! I didn’t charge for my coffee but everyone tipped me good. Thank you!

♥Reason 5: Cheering my messenger friend Izuru from Naogya. He came with his wife and 2 years old son. It was their late honeymoon as they said. Sweet♥

♥Reason 6: Sightseeing in Budapest. We had a group riding all day long. Riding and hanging out the city by bicycle is the best way to see, feel and smell the local. Too many beautiful castles in Budapest!! I felt like I was in Disneyland!

LANGOS tastes sooo good! (especially when you get drunk at midnight like mexican burrito)

Needless to say, traveling with a bike and meeting some bike friends across the ocean are always great. Even if we don’t see each other, we can still have a good friendship through the bicycle. Bicycle unites people all over the world.

It took a lot of courage for me to do my coffee bike in my 1st time being in Europe and 1st time doing my coffee bike out of Japan. The bigger try is, the more worth it has.

Thanks for sharing this.
More pics HERE.

A couple of days ago I made this little ramp to practice bar spins and such. After removing nails, Ali and I decorated it and set it up in the parking lot by my house where I usually practice.

I’m obsessed with riding on this thing but my fakie still needs a lot of work.  I only did it successfully without falling like once or twice.  I keep going sideways and falling off the board.  Still way fun.