Simply Heartwarming

March 11, 2010 | In Cycling

Austin Horse, a messenger in NY had his bike stolen and the same day thanks to twitter and some vigilant friends got it right back. Amazing.

Read about it on NYTimes.

via Tracko.

Marco Zamora At Fecal Face Dot Gallery

March 8, 2010 | In Art, Cycling, Event

Downtown LA based Marco Zamora is showing work a Fecal Face Dot Gallery April 1.

FF: Here in SF we have a strong bicycle collolition. Are cyclists organized much there?

MZ: Yeah, It’s not only that I enjoy riding, there has been a change in society with bicycles and it is a really good thing, especially for LA. The only thing is that traffic and people that drive cars from my experiences have not taken it too well. People are aggressive. Over the past year or so there has been a strong organization of people riding from all over Southern California and is because of what the North has started. We need more bike lanes and happy people.

Read the interview here.

Hern

March 6, 2010 | In Cycling, Inspiration, Video

Every so often when I get out of work at a decent time I can make it on a VCR ride with some of the dudes from La Fixed. Hern is one of them. He’s insane. What a beast.

Video by Joseph Lobato.

T20 Junkan – Tokyo to Osaka

February 24, 2010 | In Cycling, Video

via Zach’s Steel Horse LA.

Massan Has A Blog

January 28, 2010 | In Cycling, Film, Inspiration, Photography, Video

Check out MassanSF.

Riding The Long White Cloud

January 25, 2010 | In Cycling, Film, Inspiration, Skateboarding, Video

Color Magazine and FuelTV made a short piece documenting a cycling tour across New Zealand. Skaters include Kenny Anderson, Cairo Foster, Chris Haslam, Rick McCrank, Silas Baxter Neal, John Rattray, Keegan Sauder.

God, I love watching Haslam skate.

Rick McCrank on the trip:

‘I feel like the skating is going to suffer because of fatigue from the cycling. But we’re still gonna try’

via Joyengine.

All Hail Cardiel

January 15, 2010 | In Cycling, Inspiration, Skateboarding, Video

So it must have been 2008 when someone handed me a dvd version of Epicly Later’d John Cardiel. I’ve been skateboarding for years and years and still do but sort of stopped reading magazines and keeping up to much with pros and industry stuff. So I had no idea what happened with Cardiel.

Not to spoil anything, but after an injury a couple years ago he’s been no longer able to skate as he used to and instead has turned his energy to riding bikes which is great. He just has to be such an amazing athlete to be able to come back from these injuries, and though he didn’t regain full function exactly like before the injury he’s well resilient enough and strong of will enough to get back and put his energies into something he loves like cycling. So great.

Watch his part in Sight Unseen from 2003 or something. He’s definitely one of the fastest most impressive guys on a board I can think of. I’ve always loved this part. Mark Gonzales on Cardiel from the part:

The way he skates is amazing cause he’ll skate so fast but it seems like the faster he goes the more control he has… which is you know, unexplainable. Yeah he’s unbelievable. I’m not tryina kiss too much butt but he’s a ripper. An original ripper. He’s an original Coors. (laughs)

Now that you’ve seen that, take some time and watch through the Epicly Later’d series. It was meant to be just 2 or 3 short pieces on Cards, but his story is just so good and amazing that it turned into a feature documentary. Seriously Cardiel is one of the absolute most inspiring people around. He’s just so positive and earnest. You just want to hang out and give the guy a fucking hug.

Hero Status. For sure.

Clay Kessack

January 12, 2010 | In Cycling, Inspiration, Photography, Skateboarding, Zine

A couple years ago, just looking for photos of skateboading back home in Denver, I came across the photos of Clay Kessack who’s done a great job just documenting his life. The work seems to be all fun and youth and irreverence. A very nice documentary style. Clay is also a skateboarder and cyclist, originally from Denver now surely enjoying his time in New York City.

Have a look round his flickr and check out his Chowder Zine Blog. There’s also  one issue out of the zine itself out, though it looks like his site in general is down, so you’ll have to wait on that one. Check out the flickr instead. Good things.

Inspires me to do two things: Shoot more photos, and have more crazy fun running around with friends.

Nice work, Clay.

Pete Halupka

January 12, 2010 | In Cycling, Inspiration, Photography, Skateboarding

20 year old bike messenger and skateboarder Pete Halupka takes some pretty amazing photos.

Got any plans for the coming decade?
Finish school, buy a farm, get as many plaid wool jackets as possible, buy more boots, keep my leatherman on my belt at all times, continue making work, start a skateboard co-op for kids who can’t afford boards, learn French after I learn Spanish, get a dog, become less extroverted, learn to fly fish, open up my Boy Scout handbook again, become closer to my family because they’ve been amazing to me, have a rabbit, fall in love permanently and make work with that person, get a brand new road bike from that year custom fitted for myself, make mistakes and learn, learn to play harmonica, get bit by a snake, continue to be a bike messenger here, own a print of that photograph Sally Mann did in Deep South of that scarred tree… and probably meet Sally Mann, photograph a priest, go take communion and slip it into my pocket, take an agricultural science class, downhill mountain bike a lot, skateboard forever, see Spike Jonze nollie heelflip with or without loafers, see the Gonz hippie jump something, bomb a hill with Dennis Buzenitz and follow his line, and last but not least, continue to move forward in life in a positive manner.

Read a lil interview over at We Love You So.