fast folks

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oh and we are twitter.com/fastfolks!

more cargo bike shit

26" cruiser turned into bad-ass cargo truck for delivering coffee. looks like a summer project! check out those dropouts!

see on my internet gf's blog, bikes and the city!

for sale

sterling is selling his 56/54 bridgestone


































and his gipiemme cranks/bb set up













shit's fluted bitches!

FAST FOLKS!!!

Workin' at Fast Folks today and decided to use Natalie's Macbook to take some pictures of the place to share with you guys!






We just got the FBM Swords in!!! Soooooo sick!


Come check out the shop and say whats up to everyone!
Its just down the street from E. 6th and Perdanales!

Take Care
xChris Leex

Long Way From Home. RAGBRAI

I'm big on covering local events and happenings BUT this is just beautiful. Nine days of riding. Different distances. Lots of climbing. Apparently lots of parties.

I think I'm going to be in for a treat. :)

Serious applicants get at me!!!

More info at: http://www.ragbrai.org/

Lock up...

...FAIL!!!

(lifted from hkfixed)

Tour De Hood H-Town

My friend and musician extraordinaire, Elliot Cole, tip me off to this ride down in Houston come the 24th. I was informed by my inside informant Marsha Johnson Copeland that the ride starts at 7:30a and the riders are to meet at 7a. Check out the Tour De Hood website for more info about the ride and the organization. I'll re-post this closer to the ride time.

TTFN

the REAL eye in the sky edit!

the last one was a leak, but enjoyable anyway!


Red Bull Eye in the Sky from Ivan Mennim on Vimeo.

rockin' the marked men! denton represent!

i thought the original edit had some more death defying dodges, and from an anthropological standpoint the longer edit shows more of the riders and terrain, making it longer but more enjoyable if you are into that sort of thing.

if anything, this edit makes rainier look even faster, and mike martin even more insane!

the five day forecast

looks wet and wild in austin. which is awesome because of this email from brian davies:

First, you need to take a look at this:

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/tenday/78705?from=36hr_fcst10DayLink_business

Now, with that said - you will understand why I'm throwing not one but 2 races this week! Maybe even one next week too, since it just changed so it's raining through next Wednesday (stopped at Tuesday an hour ago...).

Here's the deets:

Name: Cross Club #10 aka The Noah's Ark Race
Date: 4/30/2009 (That's this Thursday!)
Time: 8 pm
Start/finish: Lamar Ped Bridge
Distance: In the 10-18 mile range
Cost: $5
Prizes: Yes
Slop: God, I hope so.
Advice for homework: Know the Shoal Creek trail. KNOW IT. I'm done holding hands, my friends. Time to step it up.
Added Bonus: A copy of Cyclocross Magazine to the first 20 attendees - spectators and racers.


it'll be nice on friday, so check this out:
























and depending on which city you are in, the extended forecast says saturday will be a nice day for this:
























and if you are in college station, it might still be a bit rainy for this (better map at the race):









































and when john rensho and i get back in town on sunday, time for tacos, more rain, and this:

Name: Cross Club #11 aka The first one with barriers
Date: 5/3/2009 (That's this Sunday)
Time: 6 pm
Start/finish: Undisclosed at this time - likely NOT at the ped bridge
Distance: Probably "sprint" distance. That does not mean drag racing, just probably short and vicious.
Cost: $5
Prizes: Probably so.
Slop: Should be a total nightmare if it really T-Storms for the rest of the week. At least it will be warm-ish. hehe
Advice: Get a lot of sleep and carb up. I'm throwing a wrench in the works this time. It's time to see what everyone's really got.

that's right, folks. five races this week between thursday to sunday. various weather patterns lend themselves to various types of races and rest assured, you will see me at every single one (besides the drungo's race, cuz i will be in college station.)

have a fun time! be safe! holla!

steel is real

and so are wool jerseys and so are old dudes with ponytails on quilled track bikes.

http://gberger.smugmug.com/gallery/8008111_V67VT#520756444_rfW2D-A-LB

from kissena opening weekend.

thanks prolly!

bmx can skids too!

Tom's Slider from aaron erwich on Vimeo.

on this vid, the come up says:

I’m only posting this to draw attention to the fact that I was right and the slider clip is becoming a trend. An annoying, obnoxious, stupid, trend.

seen on the come up, who also clowned torey from nyc this last week. just goes to show that the bmx scene has enough hate for one type of bike rider. and that blowing out sidewalls is cool.

WINE, Beer, BBQ, Bikes

Hokayso, once you do the Real Ale Ride, the next weekend (June 6th) you gotta get back on your horse and do the Atlas Ride with the Texas 4000 riders.

The Atlas ride goes from Cedar Park to Lampasas, and you can do either the 50 or 70 mi ride, both end at the same place: Texas Legato Winery & Vineyard for wine tasting, bbq, live music and beer! 

Training for these two rides...

I went out to the Veloway yesterday with my buddy Max and we did 6 laps in preparation for this ride. He took his nice Giant road bike, and I took out my Rensho with 50/16 gearing and did 18.6 mi in about 45 minutes. It was cloudy, but cool and slightly breezy, actually very nice riding weather. If you've never been out to the Veloway, I highly recommend it. Riding was really nice, there were a few families out and some leisure riders, but Max and I were the only ones tearing ass out there so we pretty much had free reign to take the corners hard and hold nothing back.

Who is going to both of these rides on track bikes with me??? Chris, let's do both!!!

Also, if you are an avid rider who has completed lengthy rides before (as I have not yet done a ride longer than 20-30 miles), if you have any gearing suggestions for making the trip with good energy efficiency, I'd love to hear them.

TTFN

Beer, BBQ, Bikes

May 30th Guys. You've got a month to get ready. I did this last year on my single-speed and I had a blast. 15, 30, 50, 65, and 80 miles are you choices.

Logan and I are shooting for the 80 mile. Lee said he'll do the 50 on his Cinelli.

More details here.

www.realaleride.com

fab friday!

i've been stuck at fast folks all weekend! someone tell me/show me how the weekend unfolded at mrdancakes@gmail.com!

fast folks on vimby

an edit from the maca premier. somehow they left my interview out of it?

VIMBY - Fast Folks & Macaframa

big ups! zlog had it first!

friday vids

Open Bicycle: New Bike Day from Eric Tollar on Vimeo.

traitor bikes!


brother Pack Nagoya Trip&Osaka Life... from YU　KU$UMOTOh! on Vimeo.

180s for days! that dude with the pink deep-vee goes hard!



steves' 360 skid from j. youngblood on Vimeo.

our own OK Steve!



good music!

more wallrides

these fools in college station are going off!






















from aj:

we had beers and made a wall ride on jesse and clonts' neighbors house.
we rode it, we had a road flare on fire... it was fun.

robster craw

easter bunny race

padless jousting! egg toss! easter bunnies!




















































































































thanks for the photos, james!
great job jordan! great job sexxxy sunday!

red bull race in aukland

i really hope you guys were following the MASH adventures in New Zealand earlier this month: here here here here here.
they finally posted a video, shot by mike martin on a scooter and an hd cam in a helicopter.



seen on prolly and AKs steady rollin' blog.

prolly's cream city

love the stainless steel details!

class! built by waterford and all that. details here.

wallride

from aj:

"the picture is from last week, the video if from tonight, i couldnt sleep so jesse and i filmed

i hit it a few times tonight on film. all the film turned out super speed, got to fix it in editting.

stay tuned for a short little edit + spring break footage coming soon.

(eric puckett 180 barspin on film!)

i'll send this shit to you first for now on.

TX first.... FTW."

more pics here, y'all!

fast folks grand opening/death pedal premier flyer

still have to add our sponsors but natalie made a sick flyer!

hey hey hey!

fast folks opened today! noonish to 8ish 7 days a week.

















east on sixth till it stops.

geekhouse vid

super sweet

Geekhouse Movie from Geekhouse Bikes on Vimeo.

ciggarette juice

gotta love it

legit bunnyhops! he rides a lager? i guess if you get them for free it doesnt matter.

ABCity Spring Edit from hfwido on Vimeo.

thanks zach!

new death pedal promo!

Fresh!

Death Pedal X FRSH promo by Kareem Shehab from Killa Kareem on Vimeo.
dope one footed wheelie/barspin variations.

vote!

which folding bike should i get?















16'' folding bike?













26'' almost full size folding bike?

either way i'm converting it to fixed.

dernit!

aj finally broke that iro

new edit, old footy

sooooo smooth! someone get this kid a sponsorship!

WINTER from Arak Avakian on Vimeo.

sick lines, bro.

canada/NE tour

mosher did his west coast tour earlier this spring, now they are doing a west canada to new york tour. very excited.


THE REVIVAL from morehartfilms on Vimeo.

'shitty ass' alley-cross article

brian davies' epic 'alley-cross' races got a write up in the chronicle this week. quoteables everywhere!

brian says:
"No matter how shitty-ass the conditions, the guys are stoked!"

"Let's be realistic. It's just a bunch of knuckleheads riding bikes in the middle of the night. Anyone who takes this seriously should find another race, 'cause they'll probably be racing a drunk guy on a cruiser."

"If you look at these guys, I guess you could say we're renegading it. But I try not to make it too illegal. I figure if we do it after dark, we don't have to worry about running over somebody's baby."

sexy sunday race!

srsly, what's the deal with austin and awesome flyers?!?!?!

soon

jesse will be here
























get pumped that we are getting a rad tattoo artist/biker dude

stolen bike!

gwen got her bike stolen off the the bike rack at her work, dog and duck, last weekend.

it is a stock langster, the seattle model, with gold grips and a broken back fender.

sucks but keep an eye out!

how have i never seen this video?

I love my job. from Edward LAforte on Vimeo.

fun shit

today in craigslist

sweet 59cm australian track bike for $350! guipiemme drop out! campy headset and bb!

crazy pursuit leopard bike! looks like an affinity to me...

read this

here

then send an email to colmanz1@msu.edu

thanks one less car! make sure you read the comments!

Sorry, Portland article from Good online

back tracked from the bike jerks blog to find out if austin made it on the list!










Austin, TX

Population: 743,000
Workers commuting by bike: 0.9%
Alley cats a year: 80
People at Critical Mass (approximately): 300 per ride
Bicycle Friendly Community rating: Silver
Miles of bike lanes and trails: 258

Scene: Even in the beastly heat of July and August, Austin bike lanes bustle. The city’s largest bike club, the Austin Cycling Association, has 1,500 members, annually gives away more than 1,000 helmets through its safety education program, and runs up to 10 rides a weekend. Of the many other community rides, a standout is the Tour das Hugel, which takes advantage of the local hills to climb 14,600 feet in 105 miles. “It just goes up and down these horrible little streets, all without ever leaving the city limits,” explains Association president Stanton Truxillo. The Hangover Rover on New Year’s Day, a longstanding alley-cat street race, includes a scavenger hunt. If you just need to get yourself rolling, join the hundreds of people who teach themselves repair skills each month at Yellow Bike Project’s free workshops. In its Earn-a-Bike program, volunteers who do 12 hours of work gain the right to build their own rides.

full article here, yo!

robster craw!

aj and jesse on a bench somewhere

new bootleg trailer!

more sponsors

annie d is working up a storm, she just added rickshaw bags to the HUGE, EVER GROWING sponsor list for her all girls race early next month. i think that puts her at 4 bag sponsors now. all i am saying is that if you are a girl, and you show up with your bike, you will win a bad ass prize. there are already better prizes for this race than any other race i have ever seen, and if all you have to do is show up and hang out with a bunch of awesome girls (and me, i'll be there,) bitch about boys and how helmets mess up your hair dos and ride a fun race, there is literally no excuse whatsoever not to come out.

oh and a few of the ATXfixed moderators will be oiled up wearing speedos at one of the checkpoints. just sayin.

psyched! here is the spoke card design!






















oh and i'm dropping the death pedal premier/fast folks grand opening knowledge on y'all later today or tomorrow. get psyched!!!!!

Mmmmm, Pinarello BABY!

Classic Pinarello Montello frameset 56cm

http://austin.craigslist.org/bik/1114242209.html

I want it, please give me $600!!!!!

doubleA caps

website up and running! ask us to sponsor a race or something!

You FOOLS!

Dancakes and I went down to H-town for the April Fools Race 3 this past weekend and we were the only out-of-towners!!! We had a freaking blast with the Houston messenger crew, H-town ladies, and some of them college station dudes. We raced, we raged, and then we spent the drive home in silence recovering (not to mention dancakes was a little miffed at me for delaying sexy-time with his special lady friend by having to go back to Houston after I forgot to return my friend's keys to her, oops! I'm sure he'll mouth off about me ruining his life in his post). Andrew and I got in to Houston around 2pm and then spent another 30 minutes trying to figure out how to get off the damn highways. We finally made our way to the little park where the race was to start from and hung out with all the attendees shootin' the shit and conferring with the locals about what the hell Andrew and I were going to do about not knowing the streets of Houston AT ALL! After while, we paid our dues and we were handed our race packet, which was a manila envelope containing our

manifest

map

some stickers, and a plastic baggie filled with a broken crayon, zig-zag paper, and a plastic glove (details of these contents to follow).

Tyrone and Paul, the Houston messengers who made this fantastic challenge happen, gave us racers about five to ten minutes to look over the map and start routing the best we could. I think Andrew and I found about 7 out of the 11 check point before they made us take off our shoes and gathered us all away from our bikes and boots to give us the final run down of the race. The race, as you can see by the the manifest, was a checkpoint style, any order race. For each checkpoint there was a clue for what to do when you got to the address or intersection; some were unmanned and you had to fill in the blank answering the question on the manifest that corresponded to that checkpoint. The dynamic duo rounded all the racers up, gave us the final rundown, and sent all of us fools on our way! Immediately, I had trouble getting my shoes on, because a. they weren't slip-ons, and b. in my haste to find the street names of the check points on the map, I neglected to untie them for easy access (there's a joke in there somewhere...). I laced up and hauled ass to try and catch up with Houston messengers Opie and Squatch, Andrew was fast on their ass as they headed toward the alley at 650 Clay St. I caught up fine, and made it to the first check point with most every one; it was there at the alley that we found out the trick on us fools - there was a note in the alley that said to take our manifests to another address, one that was NOT on our list. The alley sent us to the county court house, where we were to stamp our manifests under the date/time stamp. Neither Andrew or I figured that out until, probably an hour later, after we went directly to the court house from the alley and spent 2 or 3 minutes running around the outside of the closed court house not knowing what to look for. Three or four of the check points on the manifest sent us to different addresses, forcing us to stop and look at our maps to reroute. What a bitch! but I think this was my favorite part of the race. It really kept you on your toes, because it wasn't always advantageous to go to the address a check point sent you, sometimes there was a check point on your manifest that was closer or had a good short route.

After wasting some time at the court house, I followed Andrew to the next closest spot at 2300 Polk Ave. We got there just after Squatch did, so we did what "TALKSALOT" and "86" said to do and took our shot of mystery juice (turned out to be pickle juice, which made Squatch puke). Andrew and I struggled to keep up with Squatch as we went to the next stop, trying hard not to lose our now pickled insides. When the three of us were crossing, what seemed to be one of the hundreds of highway under/overpasses in Houston, I got caught at a light where a cop had pulled up fast to let some damn tour bus through. Andrw and Squatch got through beofre the cop came up, and this is where I went solo. I made it across the highway only to find no trace of any other racer. I pulled out my map and figured out where I was and hit the town routing the best I could. After that, I saw very few traces the whole race of any other competitors, which also made this particular race so difficult because it was so spread out across the city. I spent about 80% of the race solo, without much sign of anyone else, but Andrew and I ran into each other a couple times and made it to a couple more check points together, such as the kitty litter "climb and scoop" stop, which involved riding to the top of a parking garage (I took the elevator, haha) and scooping litter into a bag with the plastic glove; and the graveyard, where we had to use the crayon to take a rubbing of a headstone beginning with the letter "J."

The final check point at 4800 Milam, with the clue reading: "find the finish behind the dumpsters" was one of those check points that 'fooled' you and sent you to another address not on your manifest. There was a sign telling you to go to 2110 Jefferson Ste. 103. This address is on the opposite side of town from 4800 Milam, so in hindsight, it would have been most advantageous to go to the "finish" while you were down that area for the La Branch kitty litter check point, but alas, I played the fool. Well played Tyrone and Paul. At the finish, you were required to roll a 'doobie' with the zig-zag you were provided with and some oregano that you got at one of the check points. Once you proved your smoker prowess, Paul checked off your manifest and gave you a cup for delicious beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeerr!

I ended up finishing in 11th place, just after Andrew had taken 9th. And, since we were the ONLY out-of-towners, we scored 1st and 2nd prizes! I think we each got about $80 worth of stuff - I got a Continental t-shirt, a Ritchey Road Slick tire, and custom-sizable handlebar grip by Suelo (one big grip you can cut where you want). There was good beer, good company, and some slammin' Asian food/po-boy restaurant next to us where the majority of us chowed down. After prizes, side events, and trick comp, the crew disbanded to parties that littered the city. I won't go into the details of the night, as I cannot rightly remember them myself, but the short of it is I got lost from our posse that was headed to a friends house for after party partying, and luckily I found Opie (or Opie found me?) and got to crash at his place with him and his two awesome cats. Thank you Opie!

Thank you Tyrone and Paul! Twas a great race and a great time had by all.