Summer Reading: Bicycle Books

Ok guys, it's my summer vacation time and I'll be gone and offline for a while now but in the meantime I'll leave you this LINK behind which you'll find all these great books as PDF-documents. Nice, eh?

Ride Hard, and Ride Safe!

More interesting PDF-books about bicycles.

'Short Documentary About An Epic Journey' ???

Tokyo To Osaka test from Noah Tsutsui on Vimeo.

Michael Jackson R.I.P.

King of Pop owned bikes too, well, kinda.

Apero 'n' Ride Party // Japan

Hype In Japan Aperon`RideParty 5/21 from ダビト on Vimeo.

FYI: 'Apero' is french slang word for an apéritif.

In case you were wondering.

Bob Jackson Vigorelli 'Classic'

Mr. Chainthug's new Sunday whip.

With those wooden rims and all, very elegant indeed, sir.

Prollster & Boys Again

BFF09 Week Edit pt. 2 from John Prolly on Vimeo.

Pic For Wednesday

Ocean Cycle Factory 'Namie' // ニューフレーム

Model name: Ocean Cycle Factory NAMIE
Seat tube: True Temper - YAMAGUCHI
Top tube: KAISEI8630R
Down tube: KAISEI8630R MEGA

From Kentalog.

GOrilla 'Lama' Trick Frame

GOrilla 'Lama' freestyle frame, now for sale @ Chari & Co., NYC. The frames were built by Giovanni Pelizzoli himself, known as the man behind CIÖCC. Lugged steel with nice details such as the chromed fork tips and dropouts, and only 30 were made.

And the price? 1,550 USD.

'He used to mess in the 90s and he's a real strong rider...'

OT: I Totally Agree

... with Prolly, the Black Sabbath live in Paris 1970 rocks!

Pics For Tuesday

ＭＪＳドキュメント「まっさんが見た // Shiokaze '09

ＭＪＳドキュメント「まっさんが見たSIOKAZE'09」 from Tomoshit on Vimeo.

Odyssey Chameleon Goodies

The Chameleon from OdysseyBMX.com on Vimeo.

Just As A Little Reminder

Thrashbike Jam 2009 from y.arava on Vimeo.

... that the fixed tricking really ain't all that hot. ha ha.

Trash Bike Jam 2009 at the Brooklyn Banks, from Prolly's blog.

Leader 722TS // In Japanese Steel

The brand new Leader 722TS frameset, made from Japanese Kawasaki steel with hydroformed tubing. Rather interesting.

"These frames will come in black, White, glitter Green, and glitter Blue. Sizes center to top of seat tube are 49cm, 51cm, 53cm, 55cm, 58cm, and 61cm. We will be taking preorders next week. Leader 722TS is the first frame ever to come into the US market with a hydro formed steel tube set. Leader worked directly with the tubing company to design it. Took almost a year but it was worth the wait.

Price and delivery date will be posted soon. This frame will has a 55mm BB drop and 75.5 seat angle. Very tight geometry. We will have more information on the fork soon"

Read more here.

Leader is also about to release a dedicated stainless steel trick frame 729TRK...

The Infamous

TRAkTION from Chris Cusson on Vimeo.

Remember this? And hey, I think there's the very same Marwin Ou in there as in here.

The Aftermath

blazin saddles. from Marwin Ou on Vimeo.

With the Spinergy wheel and all this is bit like MASH SF but done by only one dude...

And the lesson in the end? Please wear a damn helmet when bombing down those hills.

Spotted at ZLOG.

In Houston

Hector Bustin Fixie Tricks @ Freestyle Toozdays from Dunamis Media on Vimeo.

Shiba Friday w/ a Sillgey Minivelo

SHIBA FRIDAY 6.19 from Fixy Life on Vimeo.

Keirin Berlin Alleycat Photos

Pics from the epic alleycat organized by the Keirin Berlin during the ECMC2009. Yours truly and my boys can also been seen in one of the pics. And that was great fun.

Wednesday Night In Helsinki // In Pictures

All photos by tnts, thanks.

Meanwhile In Geneva

Here's simple yet cool looking little skid trick I haven't seen done before.

Cheers Stanislas!

Whoop Whoop !!! // Prolly & Boys

BFF09 Week Edit pt. 1 from John Prolly on Vimeo.

San Marco Supercorsa LE // BFF 5 Cities Ltd Ed

I'm really loving these. Supercorsa is my favorite saddle, simple as that.

And you can get those BBF ones from here.

Iscaselle

Image stolen from here, where else?

Three Men // On The Track

Great photo, from here. Thanks to oopa8000.

If you like it, you'll probably dig this too.

Volume Cutter V.3

Volume Bikes Cutter V.3 is out and now the frame is actually starting to look fairly nice.

Up until now I haven't been a big fan of any of the dedicated trick / 700cmx frames out there and I can honestly say that when I saw the first pics of the first version Cutter frame I thought it looked like piece of shit. A BMX company half-heartedly hopping on the bandwagon etc. But by continuously working on improving their design I guess Volume Bikes has now proved me wrong.

Anyhow, if I was to get a 700cmx frame myself I'd probably get the Riding In Circles trick frame or the BMW Gangsta Track, although both of those cost considerably more than the Cutter.

Seattle Girls // Trackstanding

Photos from Rain City Fix.

Track Supermarket Osaka

While you're all eagerly waiting for the 2.0 version of Rene's online Mecca of colorful Japanese track frames and components that is the Track Supermarket website/store to open, enjoy these sneak peek super secret agent photos of his new shop space in Osaka. Looking nice!

Pics from Kentaro's Blog / Flickr.