day 'n' nite

I love riding in West LA. Tons of spots. Day or night, the weathers always perfect.

Venice skatepark via beavedge

Late night film shoot. Peep the camera crane!

My friends are ill

The homie George hitting the bank on Main St., one of many spots on the west side.

george LAB from Beaver on Vimeo.

Oh and btw, George is an accomplished wheel builder - hooked up the twisted job on my new 650c. Head over to LAB to get yours.

And peep Cheech's new Spring edit at Mammoth, yeah boyeee!

More from Cheech and company

the magic is gathering...

I have nearly all the components in place for my next build. It won't be long now :)

In my room

• Gayas pursuit frame
• Kazane crank set & bb (160mm crank arms)
  
• Sugino Zen chainring - 144 bcd / 43T
• MKS GR-9 pedals
• 19T cog & lockring
• Thomson seatpost
  

In the mail

• Concor Supercorsa saddle BFF edition
• Chrome 700c fork - Tange
  

In the LAB

• Velocity wheel set: front - silver 650c | rear - black 700c
• Milwaukee hubs, black
  
• Headset (I forget what kind), silver
  
• Toshi doubles, black
• Oury grips, celeste
• 17 gauge aero spokes, silver and black
• Thomson stem Nitto UI-5GX
  

In need of

• Starfucker plastic toe clips
• Handlebars?

3 more from the Vivitar

The homies...

More from the Vivitar

I've got heaps of photos to scan in! Rather than losing a bunch of sleep, I'm going to pace myself and go three at a time over the next week or so. Enjoy...

diz

boardwalk - venice

jamish

Enlarge photos on my Flickr

Unboxing my new pursuit frame...

I giggled like a wee little boy as I picked Gayas up from the post office this morning. Here's a few pics I took with my iPhone...

Gayas Super

• Tange double butted CR-MO stainless tubing
• 50.5cm st (c-t), 53cm tt (c-c)
  
• 650c Fork
• Campagnolo headset
• Sugino 75 bb
• Totally
  
• Awesome
  

Head is spinning. Can't wait to build!

Gayas pursuit frame on the way!

Awwwe yeeaaah :)

via keepwheelreal.com

Sung at keepwheelreal is hookin' up the Gayas pursuit frame above for $650 shipped w/ a campy headset and Sugino 75 BB. Helluva deal! (more Gayas pics)

Oro will not be stripped of components. He will return to track form, which should shave 3-5 minutes off my commute.

George...

is a homie. Built up the white Deep-V in the pics to follow. Here's a few shots from another good sesh at the local spot.

no handed wheelie

Yup, that's my bike and nope can't do those... yet. Bittersweet.

Venice, CA

This weekend...

was awesome! Lots and lots of cycling, and took a bunch of pics with the new cams in beautiful weather/lighting - really excited to see how the shots develop. Here's a few stills from a movie capture my friend took as I was keo spinning along the boardwalk in Santa Monica:

Have a great week!

Images from February's Crank Mob

Here's a few pics from last night's Crank Mob. Sorry about the blurry photos, a lot of these were taken while riding.

Crank Mob - 2/21/2009

This band awaited the mob in the middle of an Albertson's parking lot. I didn't catch their name but the lead singer was hotter than hot. When I got there, they were covering Shit Luck by Modest Mouse, and then the police came...

*Edit 2/23: The band is Professor Calculus - check em' out

Hern and friends

The ride concluded at a curious location. The spot, an Asian Imports warehouse by day, dance hub by night. "FMLY presents Booty Shaking w/ Daedelus, Free the Robots, and Intricate Machines " - link.

Good, clean, fun - Crank Mob

Another Wednesday night...

riding my bike through Venice and Santa Monica.

full size

"girls on bikes" posts are so hot right now

Anyone else notice the blogospheres a buzzin' with "girls on bikes" posts!? Anyways, just doing my part...

Ooh! And let's not forget about her.

Oro 2.0

Just installed the following upgrades a few minutes ago:

• All-City plastic double toe clips
• Izumi chain
• Toshi double straps
• Cinelli toe strap buttons
  
• 19t cog
  

*note: on 4/12/09 the Sparton frame in this picture broke

Does this count?

Trying to get a standing, one-footed, no-handed trackstand...


Trackstands - El Segundo, CA from Joey on Vimeo.

Wico Bikes

The economy is bad, times are hard... or so I've heard. That doesn't mean you can't afford to ride fixed. If you ask me, you can't afford NOT to. Over the past year, Bikes Direct has been the main if not only player for complete budget track bikes. But more recently, a new player has entered the game - Wico. We knew absolutely nothing about them other than what we saw on craigslist, so we made a trip to Downtown LA to get the 411.

Wico - Suite 411 in a crazy building in DTLA

Wico is a pretty cool operation - imported from Asia and manufactured in the same factory as FUJI bikes. The process was simple; come in, pick your size, pick your color, pick your bars/grips and you're out the door for $300. At an upsell, you can also change the colorways on a few components. Patrick Winget runs the show. He can help get you rolling without breaking the bank. Call him at 818-618-6794 to arrange a visit to the showroom. Oh, and did I mention they powedercoat? I saw a gold flake job on a set of Weinmann's and Patrick mentioned a custom half black/white job he recently did for a customer. Something to keep in mind...

We stopped by DRIF LA, while Patrick was fixin' up Diz's new bike at Wico.

from DRIF

Back in Venice, later that night - Diz's new Wico (right)

Chris's new Giant - skids and Tecate in Venice, Beach

Venice Chill Ride - 1 Year Anniversary

The Venice Chill Ride is fun and tonight's 1 year anniversary ride was no different. We took the O.G. route - Venice to Diddy Reese in Westwood and back.

uncomiro and cience are talented photographers, these photos are from their Flickr streams...

VCR meets every Tuesday, 7:30 @ Windward Circle

Westwood

I don't know who this is but he had bar spin wheelies on autopilot

me, about to keo spin

George from the LAB bunny hops this guy, then later on, gives him $5 to keo spin off his back. George gets it first try, crazy!

Yep, that's a "Where The Wild Things Are" t-shirt, need I say more?

Friendly people and nice bikes, VCR - 1/20/09

learning keo spins

Today, I practiced keo spins instead of eating lunch. Basically, I got em' but I need to whip these around for a bit longer before they're legit...


Watch @ Vimeo

almost killed my cam

Went for a ride during lunch today and attempted to stall this bench by the beach. Front wheel comes too close for comfort...



Stay tuned, I feel the lunch-break hussle comin' on.

NOEL Lights at the Venice Canals

I pass through the Venice Canals to and from work everyday, but tonight I had to stop and take a few pics of the evenings festivities.

Noel Christmas lights

Night was in full effect when I took this. Seriously, it was dark. I waited till there was no traffic and left the shutter open for 15 seconds.

6 second shutter

A car drives by with the shutter at 10 seconds.

This shot was tricky. At 6 seconds (shutter), I had to hold this trackstand as still as possible or become a big blur.

ripped shirt aka speed flaps

New PAC bag. Still love my chrome bag but I go with my PAC when I need to hold more stuff.

A random mini-Christmas parade, an LAPD sleigh escorted by police cars blaring Christmas cheer from their radios

fishy