Candy Cranks

FIXED FEST 2010 present by ROCKET

TRICK CONTEST (Quickstop/Trackstand/Trick Battle).MASH RACE.BICYCLE ART EXHIBITION.BICYCLE FILMS.DJ’s and PARTY

Everybody was having a blast!, many people from out of town are coming to celebrate this  first Fixed Gear annual event present by Rocket, in Jakarta, Indonesia. So many prizes, nice people, good food, and the most burnin’ is the trick battle contest, I must say that Bandung riders have many great potential to be the king of trick contest cuz their showin’ their hot stuff to the surface with full of soul and very entertaining, yeah! they really got their got attitude.. salute!. Yogyakarta got their own special hardcore tricks, rough and tough. And special from Jakarta you got a very promising young star, 18 years old Bari Sony Wicksono and 19 years old Herry Patriawan. That’s it for today folks, can’t wait for the next fixed gear events. Cheers!

Saturday, 24 July 2010
@ ROCKET Concept Store, Basement Bengkel Night Park (SCBD), Jakarta, Indonesia.

Supported by : San Mig Light/ID-Fixed/Cixie/FxFw/FuFuFu/Sumvelo/SSS/Woof/Cyclonesia/Arafix/WFG/Cyclo/SouthBeachQueen/Tremorz/Velodome/TLab/SatcaSash/SoberDen

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Abandoned vagabond-bike at the Seattle Ferry Terminal. The next day we saw a rather grizzled man riding around another bike that was set up exactly the same way! I’m surprised I didn’t see them at the Dead Baby Downhill.

Safety third!

“Several big names in fashion have agreed to volunteer to Be Cycle & Fashion 2010.

Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, the godmother, Marithe + Francois Girbaud, Kenzo Takada, Jean Claude Jitrois, Antik Batik, Ora-Ito, Swarovski, Ylan Anoufa … have a custom fixed gear bike to make arty. All wished to express their own vision of an ethical fashion, more in tune with the times, in order to sensitize the public to live the sustainable development on a daily basis, more fun and creative.

This exceptional collection of original and will be auctioned to benefit ACT Responsible in September 2010, after being shown at Cannes premiere at Cannes International Film Festival in May and at the International Advertising Film Festival in June.”

More Here.

Thanks Jewlz!

The Victoria Galeries in Sydney currently has an exhibition on some local riders and their bikes. For the opening The Sydney Bike Film Festival brought out the rollers to see who’s the fastest rider.

Mike Giant and Sable + Argent combo.

SBFF Gold Sprints, The Galeries, 4th of July from josh capelin on Vimeo.

“On behalf of The Galeries and the Fixed Up exhibition, we warmed up our rollers for the first time in 2010. The Sydney Sunday Session crew were our test pilots with the best time of 23:57 seconds set over 500m by the eventual overall winner, Jack Mayo, who won the 1km final by only a handful of hundreds of seconds. If that makes sense. A tonne of video and pics were shot this day with heaps more to come over the next 5 weeks as we work towards finding out who is the fastest boy and girl in a Sydney Winter.”

Head down to have a go, the overall winner will take home a Peter Bundy $3000 frame.

Thanks to SSS for the pics.

How cute! If you fancy creating one yourself and you can read/translate Dutch, you can download the pattern here.

Via Dutch Blue

Ever get that buzz after a ride where you head spins and your muscles twitch as you replay the details over in your mind? Me too… Channeling this energy into something constructive - other than beer infused conversations at the pub - has become a bit of a pastime for me. The obvious place for all these thoughts and recollections is my notepad, and a lot of the time that’s where they remain. Other times they migrate to the recycling bin, and every so often they end up here in a post, or in my zine, Open Mic. Open Mic 3, like me, is completely devoted to bikes of all kinds, be they the XC, fixie, downhill, vintage, 4X or indeed any other variety. The whole point of the zine, other than acting as a dart board for my reeling mind, is to keep a record of all the rides, races, and general bike shenanigans I have been privileged enough to be apart of. Open Mic 3 is now available on the Candy Cranks shop for $5 plus postage. Check it out.

Here’s one of the pieces from the zine, which is a poetic tribute of sorts to my beautiful 1970’s lady’s speedwell.

Cheers,
Em.

My Ladies Bike and I

Let me introduce my lady;
She upholds style while others are fading.
Ideal for cruising or promenading,
Sheʼs a mixture of chrome and retro-red shading.
I wouldnʼt part with her no matter what you paid me.

She is undeniably ʻclassicʼ, sleek lines with three gears.
Sheʼs more like Audrey Hepburn than Britney Spears.
A joy to peddle, a pleasure to steer,
You wouldnʼt believe sheʼs in her 30th year.
Nothing beats that feeling, the wind through my hair,
As she dances down the footpath like Fred Estair,
Her saddle, a thrown for my derriere.
If she was a car sheʼd be a Chevvy Bel air.
My ladyʼs bike and I make a hell of a pair.

My beautiful bike is ten times a car,
She ushers me through the spiralling paths
And delivers me safe to the front of the bar,
As I pity the drivers that search for a park,
Pollution and headlights illuminating the dark,
Drivers that curse, and engines that bark,
Cars swallowed by traffic, like fish enveloped by sharks.
And when I emerge, a little bit drunk,
She peers up from the footpath with nothing but love.
I straddle her frame armed with infinite trust,
And we bomb down King St. like crims on the run.
This is not transportation, but an act of pure love.

Now weʼre dodging cars, prams and drunks,
Each obstacle swerved is a victory won.
Cars try to pass, but we edge out in front,
Uptight drivers yelling ʻwatch where ya goinʼ, ya cuntʼ.
The ride is wilder than African tiger,
My inhibition is lost but I donʼt bother to find her.
My ladyʼs bike leaves the cars and the city behind her.

We slow down to a roll, homeʼs in our sights,
We surrender ourselves to the depths of night.
She caresses my doorstep, Iʼm still gripping on tight,
As I thank my beauty for one hell of a ride.
Love swells and mingles with admiration and pride;
We are a match made in heaven, my ladyʼs bike and I.

Check out these gorgeous Brooks saddles that have been lovingly transformed by artist Kara Ginther. She uses a combination of wood cutting and lino tools to carve the designs in leather and latex paint to color the saddle. Price range from $99-$345. Stunning!

It’s the SSS winter BBQ event! It’s at Pyrmont park and we’re meeting at Martin Place at 1pm. The meat and (hopefully) beer will be provided by the SSS, sausage sandwiches mostly. If you wanting anything else you should bring it yourself, Hos will bring the rice + chopsticks. There will be Trackstand, Skid and the Robo Tube changing competition by Robo Cog. $5 entry to compete in all competitions with a wheel set, t-shirts, bags, Spring Court discount vouchers + 2 pairs of shoes and a tattoo voucher from Ping Pong from Kaleidoscope (are you fucking serious?, the best prize I ever heard of), and, and, and, and a tattoo from up and coming tattoo artist under the guise of the legendary Ping Pong…… Nong Chang for prizes. Sponsored by Robo Cog, SSS, Supply store, OL’GOOD, BFF, Kaleidoscope (Ping Pong), Nong Chang, Spring Court and more sponsors and prizes to come.

It’s going to be a big event and lot’s of fun with rad prizes.

……….we have a secret motive for this event, if I’m to be completly honest, we will be shooting photo’s, collecting broken parts, anything of SSS related interest, ALL YOUR SPOKE CARDS and your stories for the up coming exhibition. Bring your self, your apetite, your stories, which we will document on the day and your bike. B.Y.O bike.

DRINKS AFTERWARDS AT MR B’S!

Pedal Punk by Invisible Creature

Beep Beep bicycle by Vahalla Studios

Birdcyle Robert Lee

Ghosts of the Paris Roubaix by Diana Sudyka