Videotect 2: Nice Ride Repurposed from Architecture Minnesota on Vimeo.

Kevin, aka that guy who rode the Nice Ride in the Bandit Cross, sent over a link to some sort of contest that this video is a part of. Go vote for him! It's Video 12

At One on One
4.30-6.30 for the opening-thats right, happy hour!!

Originally described in this post. Man we hate to see this one go, but it should be on adventures, and Tina has determined that her "Dropout is just too perfect to not ride all the time". LONG LIVE THE DROPOUT. At any rate, we need to make room so here we are.

$2350 WITH the travel case that can be worn as a backpack. It's killer!

The frame - BENOTTO rear, ELLIS front, VANILLA fork - 56cm square. It's a track frame to the marrow.

100mm NITTO Pearl stem with cro-moly NITTO bars.
ALL-CITY hubs to Velocity Aeros. 32 hole.
Sugino 75 cranks with a Phil BB.
King headset.
Gran Compe post.
Wipperman chain.
700x25 RibMos and room for a fart. Should probably have 23's.

Few miles since we built it up.

Here are new photos -








Get this hot rod back in circulation!
Hit us up.

WEST SIDE INVITE coming up first weekend in November out here - if you don't have this on your calendar you are deranged. First hosting by L.A. and you can be damn sure they are pulling out all the stops for an unforgettable life changer. Passion in these faces -



Champions -



And old faces - (Shaggy I'm looking in your direction - so is Guy)



And taco stands on Rampart. GET SOME



Lots more to follow...

All I've got to say is that Andy knocked it out of the park on this one. Holy shit is this amazing.

Hopefully I'll be in the running to win this bad boy.

I've been using these gloves since the middle of last winter, they are minimally bulky and retail for around $50. I've got thousands of miles in them, and so far they are none the worse for wear. I use them for temperatures between 30 and 10 degrees, though they are best suited for 15-20.

I've ridden down to zero with them on occasion and while I wasn't exactly warm, all my digits survived. I now carry a set of Gore liner gloves with me in case I get caught out there with the wrong equipment. I can layer them under these with no problem, plenty of room now that the padding has gotten broken in from use.

Highly recommended.

Did some screen printing in the morning and then my back went out on me. Nothing acute that I can point to, all of a sudden it just started aching, and my spine went into an s-curve. I've had a shitty back since high school hockey so it's nothing new, but the bummer obviously is that Stupor Bowl is this weekend and I'd like the chance to once more defend my crown and attempt a 3-peat.

I've spent the past few days at home laid up, so we'll have to see how it goes. Going to try to ride the bike tomorrow, though I can't sit in a chair for more than a minute without a ton of pain. Wish me luck.

Big blog post about our design process regarding the Space Horse dropouts on the AC Blog.

Go give it a read

I remember, being so stoked on this show in junior high. Here's a Hans Rey's guest appearance. Anybody know who the other stunt rider is? I believe that Brian Lopes used to stunt on this show, but I don't think it's him.

and a photo of Josh doing Karaoke that he wanted to see on the blog.

Ozzie, his boy, and King Of Dispatchers, The Dark Side



Finally for Steve T







L.A. for the win.

the city not the street in MPLS.



From Emily down in Chicago:

I'm a student at DePaul University and over Christmas break, I got my bike stolen. It was locked up outside of my residence hall and thief cut both my hard lock and my cord lock. The bike is a brand new black Globe Work, serial number WSBC602100683G, and I'm absolutely dying to get it back.

If you see it please let us know.

get some.

File under PEELING OUT/STRUTTIN' IN TALL BOOTS