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Check out the: “TAKE OVER”

Michael Green — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:46:09 +0000

A new blog about bikes taking over LA:

takeoverla.blogspot.com

and they too remembered Seattle:

BikeBlog Round Up-week of 1/26/09

Michael Green — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:58:30 +0000

Whats happening in the world of bike blogs:

NYC:
Cyclehawk.com Squid’s messenger company and blog,
alerted us that there is an alleycat for the New York Bike Messenger Fund
February 13th–Friday the 13th!!

and artist Greg Ugalde submits this artwork for 2009 North American Cycle Courier Championships in Boston:

Meanwhile Diablo’s making his own spots for- Under Armour

John Prolly
posted this from the NYTimes. Article and Slideshow on Hugo Giron from Snap Couriers in Brooklyn.

The article is a review of Bike Lights. Props to Hugo who started Brooklyn’s first courier service.
SNAP.
elsewhere:

Urbanvelo has news on the 5th annual North American Handmade Bicycle Show

The show is from February 27th-March 1st in Indianapolis, Indiana.
On the opening night they’ll be having an ARTBike party, where artists, cyclists, friends, media and pretty much anyone else will celebrate art and bikes. Everyone loves a parade!

LA:
Trackosaurusrex posted this video of track bikes riding in a pool so remote even a 4×4 pickup truck can’t get to.

No Cassettes Webisode 1 from FonsecaFilms on Vimeo.”

New BLOG.
Check out what the kids are doing in Austin Texas at:
ATXfixed.blogspot.com
One thing, there making videos:

ATX FIXED 3 from Arak Avakian on Vimeo.

and finally check out this fixed blog from Singapore.
Fixpatrix.com
Wow, its infectious huh…and what do they post?
Cool videos from BMX in Thailand:

Brothers in Thailand from Christopher San Agustin on Vimeo.
and
Bringing it right back home…videos of NYC.

New York 2008 from Vicente Sahuc on Vimeo.

Couple cool videos…

Michael Green — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:41:56 +0000

I just added Urbancyclechic.com to my links page to highlight this sweet bicycle blog from the UK.

They’ve got a couple of cool videos up on their site…One of this Time Lapse of London, which doesn’t have any biking in it.

London (harder, better, faster, stronger) from David Hubert on Vimeo.
and this from track bike riding in San Francisco…

Track Bike Times Edit #1 from Matthew Rice on Vimeo.

Bike Blog round up…

Michael Green — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 15:27:18 +0000

Here’s another blog doing a weekly bicycle related round-up. This is also a nice site for bike happenings in the local Austin, Texas area…

Welcome to the scene: Austin Bike Blog

They also have a funny section on the dumbest product of the week.

Bike Blog Round Up…Pittsburgh, Tokyo, LA and Italy.

Michael Green — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:23:50 +0000

BikeBlog Round up…
Here is what is happening in the world of Bicycle Blogs:

Urbanvelo out of Pittsburgh PA posted this story about Couriers in Milwaukee. Local Fox affiliate had some nice bicycle mounted camera work too.

Click here for the story.

My favorite bicycle blog also had this video from the 2008 Cycle Courier Championships in Chicago:

2008 North American Cycle Courier Championships from Fix Jones on Vimeo.

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Tokyo, Japan… Jitensha-Jin.blogspot posted this video from the 2008 Kyoto Loco. (yes I know Kyoto in a different city than Tokyo)

KYOTO LOCO ’08 from Eli Tokyo Jitensha-Jin on Vimeo.
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In LA: Trackosaurusrex
posted a new bike radio show in LA:

Kill RADIO
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Milan, Italy.. Milano Fixed
Bicycle Film Festival Teaser:

BicycleFilmFestival | Teaser Monte Stella from casagrafica on Vimeo.
Yes and more fixed gear riding videos:

Fix’ing Coeur d’Alene from theSHEPH project on Vimeo.

fun with German TV.

Michael Green — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:28:00 +0000

I got a call from Barbara who handles press releases and media requests for Time’s Up. They were on their way to Toronto for the CMWC and couldn’t facilitate a last minute request for Public Television Germany. Apparently a crew was in town to make a short segment on the rise in popularity of fixed gears. Who better to represent this than the bike blog guy…me. I mean, I’m big in Germany, or soon will be. Yes, I am a big ham. Its all part of the game. Getting more people on bikes. Playing nice with the press.

So I meet up with the crew and we decided to shoot some riding around and an interview. I wanted to point them in the right direction, talk to local people and maybe even visit a bike shop or two. Unfortunatly a lot of people had left for Toronto, including King Kog, who I felt was the closest place and best representation of how this trend is blowing up into style and fashion.

The best part was slowing down impatient Brooklyn drivers as they shot out of a minivan interviewing me on why I liked a bike with no hand brakes.

Along the way we ran into Jack Crank who got some screen time. Jack was instrumental in getting my bike back.

shown here at the NYC bicycle film festival block party (I thanked him with a bottle of wine)

I saw Jack and a friend heading to work and yelled to them to come be German TV stars:

Eventually we headed over to NYC Bikes and talked with Richard who was very articulate about the whole scene.

They wanted a bicycle retailer to talk about who are these people buying track bikes and why? His basic attitude was like mine, brakes or no brakes…its complicated…as long as more people are buying and riding bikes…who cares.

Shooting outside of NYC bikes on Roebling.

Then they had me riding through red lights up the wrong way on Bedford Ave. Hmmm? Not necessarily the safest moves, but they assured me it looked good on video.

Their producer is sending me a copy on DVD. I hope some of my blog readers speak German, or maybe I don’t.