Impending Doom

Three days off. The point of this race is to come out with your friends and have a good time. Be prepared to stay the entire evening, including the show at the Cobalt. Satan gives the race 5 out of 5 pentagrams.

Lyle already posted it, but I'm watching the race vid again and so are you now. 

In other news, Chunks got a good number of people out to race and heckle at a themed Hey Fixie, the National Avenue Sprints. It wasn't too cold. I raced Travis Jutson twice and we both won one. He was riding 77" while I had my usual 71". The track was around 200m, coincidentally the same length as the Burnaby Velodrome.

I may have forgot to mention..

Tomorrow is Black Label's 6th annual BIKE KILL!!! \m/


Needless to say, I'm taking the BMX, and wearing protection.

New Wheel Day!

Gold medals for everyone!

I'm finally off that wobbly, S-bent, elliptical, spongey Ambrosio Excellence. Wow. What a misnomer. Thanks to Chombo for the Vee and Jam Pony bikes for hooking up the spokes.

Such a nice afternoon to build a wheel. I cued up the fittingly ridiculous 'Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift' and grabbed one of my RatPack Hustle won beers, and set to work.

The first part, unwinding that damn Ambrosio was the hardest part. My hand hurt after this:



The old build was so tight that the spokes had practically fused together at the crossings.

I cleaned up my hub a bit and inspected the spoke holes. This would be the third wheel I've built with it. Some of the holes are stretched a bit in the direction of their spokes, but that's nothing to be concerned about. I think it was Jobst Brandt who said that if relacing a hub, you should always do it in the same direction, or the new stresses may be an issue and you would risk flange failure. I'm not gonna argue with Jobst.


One thing worth mentioning is how awesome it is to build a wheel while leaving your cogs on it! The spokes cleared the 14 and 15 tooth DA cogs with ease. I think the last time I built on this hub it had 15/16 cogs and was much more difficult.

The hot headed American gaijin kept getting himself into trouble with the young Yakuza hopefuls, as I relaxed, chuckled and brought the new rim into tension. Tonally, I knew this would be a clean build, without so much as glancing at the TS-2's caliper. It rings out beautifully.


..and here we are, all done. Bozoku style. I'm ready for some pedestrian clearing Dorifto chase scenes.

Nice Commercial

In no way does Proj-B endorse Hutchinson tires. In fact, I was unimpressed with the last Hutchinson I ran. I just thought the ad showed the pretty side of riding around NYC. It features Alfred Bobe Jr. and some girl on a Coasting equipped bike. Have a watch:

Seymour bomb 08

Thanks to Billy the Kid for shooting/editing this.


Zoobomb Expeditionary Force from Billy Meiners on Vimeo.

At 2:45 you can see Morgan skidding on my Hookwormz!

Hoang Tran on Subrosa

Hoang Tran here with some Randy Taylor shit. A worthy minute and a half.

Hoang Tran from Subrosa Brand on Vimeo.

Trials

The Come Up kids may be hating on this vid, but I LOVE it.
Trials hops are pretty tough, and to combine them with street style is freakin ridiculous!
If this is the future of Trials, I'm stoked.

Danny Macaskill : Next level street trials from brainchild-films on Vimeo.