Stopped by Prolly‘s house and we put up the placeholder page for Asphalt. Expect the contest to launch on the 31st of August and run until the 14th of September. [...]

A note from Ken Stanek, the longtime organizer of Bike Shorts;

We’ve set a date. September 27th at Public Assembly (formerly Galapagos) in Williamsburg. We’ve done shows here before (when it was Galapagos), and they’ve always been jam-packed and awesome. If we were selling tickets in advance, I’d tell you to buy your tickets soon! We’ve already [...]

LOS MARCOS MELEE!!! October 9th to the 11th!

Always a good time, never boring! Bring your parents but leave the little ones at home! Why? You’ll need them to open the door for you when you stumble home with a sweet polo mallet tattoo across your stanek.

More information [...]

A couple of weeks back, I visited Mark Herschede (Haven Press) and he introduced me to Alex Passapera‘s most impressive work. Mark and Alex just put out a limited run of Alex’s prints in conjunction with a solo show at White Rabbit.

I was lucky to grab a print of ‘The Alpha’. Killer [...]

I think I came across Dario Pegoretti’s work at Interbike in 2007 or 2007, and was really really blown away by his craftsmanship and paint work. A master of his trade, he had hand-built and painted his line of frames and named them after Zappa songs. Good stuff! As I followed his career, [...]

Harry is putting on a second Bike Jumble! This time in the East Village/Alphabet City area @ 4th Street between Avenue B and Avenue C.

Turnout was great last time and I’m glad to see another iteration of the Jumble.

More info on the the Bike Jumble [...]

Not sure when I added the Candy Cranks blog to my Google Reader, but I’ve been pretty glad that I did. The blog is based out of Sydney, Australia and written by a pile of ladies from all over the world. Cycling is pretty male dominated and I’m always stoked when female specific events, [...]

Snaked from Harry Schwartzman

edit: oh dammit, I suck [...]

I’ve been working on organizing a giveaway series with John Prolly and it is coming to fruition within the next week or so. Named Asphalt, it’s a giveaway series showcasing of some of our favorite brands and friends.

We’re kicking it off with a set of B43s graciously donated by Velocity that I have [...]

Found this Vimeo vid on ‘The FredCast’ (Great blog! Horrid name!) and loved this little piece of insight into sublimation and how they’re able to turn out the Yellow Jerseys so quickly during the Tour.

You might or might have heard of sublimation printing before, but it is how almost all modern technical jerseys are [...]