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Grant Taylor

2010-01-19T14:41:00.000-08:00

so fast

Revival Austin This Weekend!

2010-01-12T10:33:00.000-08:00

The young dudes are throwing this one!

Rainier Schaeffers Photos

2010-01-08T13:09:00.001-08:00

fungi and fun guys. check em out!
scope the double u-locks with macaframa stickers!

Home Alone 2

2010-01-06T16:14:00.001-08:00

Spotted this dude in the first few minutes of the film, right before they drop Tim Curry into the mix. Snap.

Apparently someone else, on a blog I have never read before, saw it too.

12th Annual Winter Solstice Race

2010-01-05T12:06:00.001-08:00

The last one. Please show up y'all.

21st Street Coop Bike Shop Coop

2010-01-04T12:16:00.000-08:00

Is open tonight! Come on down 6-9

Hangover Rover 2010

2010-01-04T07:28:00.000-08:00

Soooooo long! But we got free jager and somehow Chris got me in every shot.

Team Jerk! with deputized team member Matt!

Obviously we were very excited about the 35 mile SoCo/East Side/Domain route. Super sketchy access road riding. I brought my cross/utility bike out expecting a scavenger hunt and ended up with a hammerfest.

Digging my new power jersey!

Pro Vag

2010-01-04T07:25:00.001-08:00

Shot outside of Peru's place this weekend. Sweet paintjob!

Some Stuff from This Weekend

2010-01-03T07:34:00.000-08:00

and this text conversation happened

me: Wish I was there (regarding the 3rd coast reunion jam in College Station)
peru: Me too
me: Tell everyone hi. How awesome was today?
peru: Good. Got epic footage and still pics of Eric. I have already made $9 in dice. Elliot and Eric were crowned Mr. and Mrs. Third Coast.

I can't believe I missed that. Stupid work.

This Weekend

2009-12-31T12:24:00.000-08:00

I'll be at the Hangover Rover and the Fab Friday Race tomorrow. Watch out for drunk drivers (and cyclists) on the Blue Moon ride, that first hairpin turn at the Veloway, and TEAM JERK!

The Other Puckett

2009-12-31T12:14:00.000-08:00

Facebook stalkin'!

Here's a little tiny edit he put up a few weeks ago.

Camera Test from Jeff Puckett on Vimeo.

The Anti-Social Road Ride

2009-12-22T13:08:00.000-08:00

I'm fucking serious about the pancakes, too.

DoubleA Caps winter update

2009-12-08T17:36:00.000-08:00

Annie is sewing up caps for the cold cold weather. Just got an order in from San Fran, word is spreading hu?

This one however is just for her.

100% wool on the upper = super toasty

Boulder Indoor Velodrome

2009-12-01T22:24:00.000-08:00

You've seen the plans, now see the real thing!

December Fab Friday

2009-12-01T21:46:00.000-08:00

I wasn't able to race last month, and I won't be able to this month either, which is unfortunate. I'm not sure what the public sentiment is, but these races seem to be getting shorter and shorter (Matt B and Sterling finished last month's race in 15 minutes) and less and less advertised. The sponsor and after party situation has been static for a while as well. I suggest that someone else do the work for a month, but as long as Fast Folks puts them on, I'm sure folks will keep showing up.

I have a few ideas for a race series bouncing around, almost exclusively focused on inviting riders out that may not have been in Austin as long as some of us. The idea being that there are people out there who want to race, but might be intimidated to show up, or just unaware of the alleycat scene that exists. Guerilla advertising (spoke carding at shops, clubs, wherever) and hopefully a decent turn out of people that may not have met eachother. It might sound dumb to some people, but if this community is going to keep going, we need fresh faces to take our places when we get old and grumpy and start riding road bikes.

Oh wait, that's already happened...

The Motherfucking 100

2009-12-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

In the 4th Annual Motherfucking 100, 9 teams of 2 compete in 100 laps of Perilous Urban Single Track racing around the 21st Street Coop for the Golden Wheel and the title of 'Most Extreme Racers' in this, THE MOST EXTREME RACE IN TRAVIS COUNTY.

Dodging water balloons, lap dances, and a raging pit crew, racers and onlookers gain shortcuts through the 'Highway to Hell' by suffering countless beer bongs and braving such features as The Devil's Sphincter, The Devil's Anal Pipe, and The Devil's Crotch bone.

Honestly one of the most fun races I have ever participated in. Will and I, Annie and Meghan, Anjel and Pete from Yellow Bike, and AJ and Ron from The Peddler got to race against a bunch of co-opers in a race that until now, has been exclusively raced by the people who live at 21st St. Considering Will has won 3 of them already, we were still worried about the Peddler Team (AJ crushed, even though he snapped his seat post off around lap 30,)and the alcohol capacity of the Co-op team supporters.

In the end, Will and I handily won 3rd place, with about 43 beer bongs (each beer bong earned a shortcut through the Highway to Hell, which had it's namesake song playing on repeat the entire 3 hour race.) Annie and Meghan brought out a bunch of support and ended up with 55 beer bongs, but the winning team, Building 2, had 73 motherfucking beer bongs tallied by the end, more than 50 of which were in the 2nd half. That means that their supporters drank more beer bongs than there were laps. Fuck.

Absolutely the most ridiculous race I have ever competed in, and also a completely legit excuse to wear only a bib for an afternoon and to take beer bongs on a Sunday.

An Adventure a Day, Na'w Mean?

2009-11-21T15:12:00.000-08:00

All City Ad

2009-11-20T23:42:00.001-08:00

All City Championship champ in a new ad for All City, Trash Bags, and the Big Block.

Cadence this Fall

2009-11-20T23:39:00.000-08:00

Sides 3/Revival Premier in Houston!

2009-11-12T08:18:00.000-08:00

Forklift PSA

2009-11-05T07:33:00.000-08:00

Watch the whole thing. I like the chainsaw POV at the end.

From Prolly's Mishka blog.

Alright, I'm a stop reposting for a while now.

Cyclocross Dismount Tutorial with Thy Neighbors Bike

2009-11-04T15:27:00.000-08:00

Straight jacked. Thanks for the embed code, Daniel!

Puckett Sighting

2009-11-03T20:12:00.000-08:00

Where the fuck is he?

Come home buddy! Thanks Prolls!

FBM Tour in Under A Minute

2009-11-03T19:37:00.000-08:00

FBM tour in less than a minute. from FBM BMX on Vimeo.

Off their blog

How to Barspin video

2009-11-03T19:19:00.000-08:00

How to Barspin with James Cox from The Creasemeister on Vimeo.

from the come up

Alleycross Cap

2009-11-03T18:53:00.000-08:00

Well last Tuesday's alleycross race was rad. I had such a good time. Read a full review over at Dan's site, but let me say a few things:

Third Eye Blind
Beer Pass
Yard Sale
Heckling
Hush Puppies and Lonestar afterwards. Down the hatch!
Why am I always the only mother fucker who brings a change of clothes to wear after the race?

Sato talking shit about someones 'clean' cross bike that they obviously don't know how to use was funny, especially considering that he hung out in the back with Andy and I and fell completely into the massive mud pit every time he rode through it. I yelled at him the whole race. Needless to say, the guy with the clean bike creamed us.

Pics!

Dancakes in the News!

2009-11-03T18:47:00.000-08:00

Wierd interview about the new passing law after work yesterday. I must have told her 10 times I was only a delivery driver, but the news tells you what it wants you to hear, I guess.

Kate and I were both wearing Double A caps, and Daniel had on his Psychlist bag! Reppin' hard!

Double A Fall Update

2009-11-03T17:29:00.000-08:00

Logan's Winter Cap. All wool shell, cotton flap. Check the detail!

Eli from Lemolo sent us some nice photos of his cap Annie gave him a few weeks ago. Made out of an old shirt of mine that shrank too much in the dryer. Authentic Matheson Tartan.

Custom cap for Eric.

Double plaid at Ride the Republic.

Check it out.

HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MAN?

2009-10-27T15:37:00.000-07:00

Cross Race Tomorrow

2009-10-26T20:55:00.000-07:00

from thy neighbor

Lifestyle Sunday

2009-10-25T12:00:00.000-07:00

Emi and Jason from Matt Lingo on Vimeo.

Massan from Matt Lingo on Vimeo.

Stages Futura from Adam Bryce on Vimeo.

From Prolls.

from Massan.

I really don't like re-posting stuff, but these videos are too good not to put out there.

Texas Handbuilt Bike Show

2009-10-25T11:11:00.000-07:00

Went by the Convention Center with Annie on Friday. Total Weinerville. The bikes were all pushed over to one wall and the entire rest of the hall was filled with vitamin drink tents and investment banking agents. There was a jackass emcee jabbering on about how nothing was taboo at a Livestrong event, interviewing people who's uncle had cancer and then saying how great it was that something so tragic could bring us all together to fight it.

Don't get me wrong, I have more than a few family or friends that have survived or succumbed to cancer, and I think that Livestrong and Lance Armstrong are doing an incredible service to mankind, but I was there to look at bikes. And drink beer.

Well, there was no beer (10 points from Gryffindor!), but there were bikes aplenty.

Bilenky. Favorite Cargo Bike Ever.

Jeremy from Gallus brought these two bikes from his personal collection. A 49cm track bike and a bi-partable 650-b fixed gear commuter. We talked a bunch about building racks and the generator hub he has on the commuter. He said "If someone orders a performance bike from me, they will be dissapointed."

I dug his aesthetic and his 'build it to ride it' mentality that he said all of his work comes out of.

Alchemy fixed gear. Like the paint jobs but Ti builders freak me out.

Wierd/cool blue sparkle with hand painted details on this Daltex.

Faux patina all over this True Fabrication. Kind of wierd,airbrushed spots all over the frame to look like rust, but the ties on this 29r's downtube logo look rad.

Motherfucking Ti Jafar staff at the Willits booth!

Eli of Lemolo

2009-10-23T09:39:00.000-07:00

Lemolo bags is a small two man operation fronted by Eli, the nicest guy I met in Portland, but everyone there is super nice, weirdly enough. His shop is in a shared artist space that is a partitioned off old building. It is located in the warehouse area close to the water underneath the Morrison bridge. It's a really beautiful site that would make anyone happy about going in to sew for a few hours. The setup is really modest with two old industrial machines, a nice sized cutting table and a small but choice collection of fabrics in wonderful colors. Eli focuses on backpacks and panniers which have a great level of workmanship.

I cut out of my geology conference during lunch hour to chat with him a bit. We ended up talking about all sorts of fun things, bags, sewing, workmanship, custom bikes, old Japanese trucks. I caught myself staring at his beautiful sewing machine tattoo too much. His tattoo really shows how sewing gets into your blood. His mom taught him, like many of us who find sewing as a part of life, but he had a grandfather that used to work on machines, so it's really in his blood. He started out by making a bag for himself, then a friend, and word travels fast in bike-centric communities and he has been sewing up bags for three years or so now. He was a one man operation until recently an old Seagull Bags seamster moved to Portland and started working for him. He cuts all the bags himself so he has control over the colors. When you look at a Lemolo bag that is one of the first things that you notice is the wonderful color combinations or naturals and pastels.

What else is there to say? I gave in one of the wool hats made out of one of Andrew's favorite old wool shirts that made it into the dryer one too many times, and a bag of chocolates that look like rocks that I snagged from the geo conference. He gave me some great tips on fabric distributors that are competitive to Seattle Fabrics where Russell at Psychlist has been ordering from so far. It must be really nice to live in a place where you can ride your bike to a fabric store and roll out with bolts of cordura on your front rack, although Eli says the travel with that kind of cargo can be a little scary. It was a great visit and I am so grateful to Eli for being so nice enough to show me his shop. I am tempted to move up here and sew for him (it was offered, jokingly), but overall I'm really excited to meet like-sewingloving peeps who enjoy sewing as a way to be involved in the cycling community. So that's all I have to share, but meeting Eli was an unforgettable experience, and I hope we keep in touch.

Check out Lemolo's site here.

Team MOTORDOME

2009-10-21T14:45:00.000-07:00

Imagine this:

You've been a messenger in Portland, OR for years now, and when you finally decide you can't stand shitty housemates and their shitty bands practicing in your shitty basement anymore, you buy a motor home. Also imagine that you enjoy cyclocross and you have a rag tag bunch of bad ass cyclist friends who love it too. Y'all decide you want to start driving out to races, and since you have the biggest car and a built in fridge, you decide to host the team out of your motor home.

It's great. Lots of beer, you get sponsored by a team mates bakery, get to watch wipeouts galore, heckle off season roadies, experience 'post wave supercharging', and generally get to have a rad time.

But wait, you need a name for your team.

Oh, yeah: Motordome. Duh.

official kit

unnofficial kit

joel from blackbird on his dialed ira ryan

Big, huge thanks to the one and only Brian Davies for the heads up. Motordome's blog is all that is good about cycling and it gets me super pumped for the cross season, and cycling folk in general.

Death Pedal/TX Fixed

2009-10-20T21:31:00.000-07:00

Kareem was filming down here all during the Bike Film Fest, and some of the riders down here are shooting for DP2 which should be out soon.

AJ sent me some stills last night.

On top of that, Kareem will be in Houston during the Thanksgiving holiday, primarily to film AJ and Puckett. I'll be there. It should be fun.

By the way, that's a fucking nose bump, and I giggle satanically to myself when I imagine what that footy of Jesse eating it looks like.

Perfect day!

2009-10-18T13:51:00.000-07:00

Dan and I are going to drive up to Walnut Creek and hit the trails!

Gah!

Good Metal Pedal Photos

2009-10-16T00:10:00.000-07:00

Will

Annie P

Will and Frye doing God knows what

From me and from James' flickr.

Hi, bye!

2009-10-15T19:48:00.000-07:00

Well it's in the low 60's now.

Annie D is leaving for Portland tomorrow and she won't be back till Wednesday, so we scooped a copy of DUNE (dir. David Lynch!) compliments of the $20 Vulcan Video gift certificate I won at the Metal Pedal race, and a pint of the seasonal blackberry cobbler ice cream Blue Bell makes. She is there for a school thing but she gets to drink lots of coffee and hang out at Lemolo Bags with Eli. Expect a write up when she gets back.

Miss you, Annie!

Love you, Kyle.

EDIT:

I just watched the first half of the 'Made for TV' version before realizing we picked the wrong case! BAH!

An hour and a half I will NEVER GET BACK!

Metal Pedal Alleycat Re-cap

2009-10-15T15:00:00.000-07:00

It's hard to believe it after these most recent 3 days of 85 and up degree temperatures, but Sunday's alleycat was the first cold weather alleycat of the season, and boy was the weather shitty.

After a few weeks of faux-fall, El Nino caught up with us and brought a weekend of cold rainy days just in time for Annie P's race. The weather forecast had said 'fair,' but when the weather turned I was honestly curious to see who would show up, and how many fair weather riders would stay indoors.

Pleasant surprise:

Nearly 40 people raced and in between the organizers, the people working at the venue and the beer tent, there were nearly 70 people involved by the end of the race. Not to mention all the Bird's employees were wearing big wigs and zebra print leggings.

So the le mans style start was rad, and I still have a bruise from sliding out in the alley and getting run over by Kate Moon! First stop was Fast Folks, where I was well behind the main pack. Down a green banana, collect a sticker, then up to Clown Dog Bikes. The routes were as follows:

East Side: no traffic, hills
Downtown, Red River to MLK: traffic, cops, hell of hills
or
Downtown, Red River to 15th to Campus: also involved hills and cops and pedestrians.

(The thing with Austin is this: if you choose the straight route, it tends to be the hilliest. I like fucking around with neighborhood routes. I grew up here, I won't get lost, but I sure as hell will shoot myself in the foot racing the routes I use to commute. But it's a nice city, so what the hay!)

I chose route three. Then to Clementine Coffee, which is a hill, no way around it. Then Peddler, more hills. Then Vulcan Video, which was a surprise stop but all downhill. Then back to Bird's on East 6th.

I placed 6th or 7th overall. I'm proud. The folks who beat me are my favorite people in the cycling community down here and getting my ass kicked (in order) by Will, Frye, John Keller, Mason, Paul, and Kate Moon is an honor, whether I was 6th or 60th place. Rob even came in a scant few minutes behind me on the tall bike!

14 miles, with Will and Frye finishing in around 45 minutes and me at around 50. Beers were had, smiles and interviews for the new bike zine went around. It was fun.

Thanks to James for all the good photos!

Hair Metal Pedal Alleycat!

2009-10-11T14:31:00.000-07:00

See y'all at 5!

Behold!

2009-10-11T13:13:00.000-07:00

I have been scouting for a pair of these ever since I started riding my first fixed gear. I was living in Portland at the time, and I spent a lot of time at the Stumptown on 3rd St., a popular messenger hang out, checking out bikes and trying to better define my sense of bike-style by watching the pros swap out or keep parts on their bikes depending on how practical they were.

One of the bikes that left a lasting impression was Sharky's 3Rensho:

Notice the cut and unwrapped Mavic bars, the Time pedals, the beat up paint, and the 1" threadless Wound Up fork. Pretty much my ideal set up, and a style I have pseudo-consciously ripped pieces from ever since I started riding fixed gears and track bikes.

Glad to finally have another piece of the puzzle.

We're Back

2009-10-10T15:28:00.001-07:00

I couldn't handle wordpress anymore, and ATXFixed doesn't cover the whole scope of what I am going to post about.

Third Coast was a good idea, but in the end there was one post a week between the 16 people with access codes. Don't worry though, there is still plenty of stuff happening, and you can read it here first.