Candy Cranks

“Girl With A Bike”  An illustration I made for WOOF JAKARTA.

via WOOF

Illustration of Michael Chacon with his new bike Leader “Hurricane” doing the Big Spin by Gibranos of Woof (JKT).

via  WOOF

This made the morning news in Tokyo. Apparently some pranksters at the University of Tokyo (Todai) went on a bit of a saddle swiping spree and left a free gift of broccoli for their victims. This happened last month without much issue, but a second round this month had the police involved and pressing charges. The saddles were recovered, by the way.

These events seem to have inspired a bit of a trend.

this appears to be chikuwa, a kind of fish cake that is very yummy

Via Tr Bikes

The guys at Monkey Light are having a competition….

“This new bike light displays full color 8-bit patterns on bicycle wheels to keep cyclists safe at night. We are crowd sourcing the design of the patterns that will be included in our new Mini Monkey Light bike wheel light. We have asked people to submit designs for new patterns. We are accepting design submissions until our Kickstarter ends on October 29th.

M210 PATTERN DESIGN CONTEST

I love this pacman design..

Link to Template here

Submit here

More info on our website here

I love this pac man design..

early stage of our camp build with the headless unicorn bike

A month ago I did a little post about the bike I was planning to take to Burning Man and the heap of bikes in a dust lot in Reno that I picked it out of. I never did get to ride that red Specialized because the friends who took it up to the event early sent me a text saying that it had a totally busted tire and to just grab another one from the lot. So I did. They gave Big Red away. There’s a lot of gift giving going on at Burning Man. So, I picked out another bike, a beautiful silver cruiser. I didn’t have much luck with bike number two either. It turned out that under Silver Lightning’s sparkly coat was a bright lime green finish, meaning that she was a “yellow bike”, a shared community bike, and I got busted by the crusty yellow bike police. While the loss of this second bike nearly broke my heart, I knew that she had community duties fulfill.

The thing that people say about absolutely NEEDING to have a bike at Burning Man is totally true. Black Rock City, the town that exists for just one week of the year in the Black Rock Desert, is a big place and a bike comes in handy for getting around to all the many things you want to see and do, plus when everyone else has a bike and you don’t it just sucks. It was a great pleasure to just cruise around in the open desert at night all lit up on a bike, avoiding pedestrians, other cyclists, and art cars, and trying not to get lost from my friends. I learned that when going to the massive parties in the club districts at either end of the city, it is imperative that you leave your lights and EL wire on and blinking or you will spend a good chunk of time looking for your ride.

So, on that sad sad morning when Silver Lightning left me, what did I do? After a few moments of feeling sorry for myself, I remembered that Susan, the lovely lady from Reno who had let me pick my first two bikes out of that pile had had the smarts to pack an extra bike in her RV, just in case. At the time back in Reno, I thought she was crazy, but I was blessing her that day out in the desert. I just walked over to her camp and picked up the spare bike and took the opportunity to borrow her kids trailer and hauled some water back to my camp. Bike problem solved and hydration provided! I even inherited some EL wire to light up that last bike, I’ll call her Lucky. So, I rode Lucky through the potholes and fluffy patches of dust for the rest of the week. I cruised around with new friends to the perimeter fence and airport, to various bars, parties, and burns. I checked out art and participated in Critical Tits, the largest group ride at Burning Man with around 5,000 riders, women only, tops off.

Third try's a charm. Me and Lucky hauling some water.

out by the perimeter fence with little planes landing and taking off just behind it

Me and some camp mates all set for Critical Tits with the Man behind us

Dude taking pics of all the tits. Expectedly, still sadly there were many like him.

looks like some sort of Critical Pink is about to happen...I was just passing by in the wrong colour

It was such an amazing week that was filled to overflowing. If you haven’t been to Burning Man and you have friends who have and they don’t stop talking about it, just forgive them a little. There’s just so much going on and it’s tough to describe. I was so into experiencing it that I didn’t take many photos. There were tons of crazy bikes lit up in crazy ways, some super tall, others with antlers, or unicorn heads and ponytails. I did however document the parking lot at the casino hotel I went to after the event. There were cars with crazy dusty bikes all over.

Good ole Lucky served me well and is now is storage in Reno. Hopefully I’ll get to ride her again, perhaps even next year.

Bike Lordz Stunts and Styles – Directed by Mikey Hart

Bicycle Film Festival is returning to Sydney celebrating its 11^th year in conjunction with ‘Sydney Rides’ Week.

Bringing together creative communities and bicycle communities for the following events:

Sat 8^th Oct: Street fair kicking off ‘Sydney Rides’ week, Taylor Square

Wed 12^th Oct: Creatures of the Night ride. 8pm at the Flinders pub, Flinders St, Surry Hills.

Thu 13^th Oct: ‘Bi’ art exhibition, Somedays Gallery, Surry Hills

Fri 14^th Oct: Film screenings, Opera House. Goldsprints after party, The Standard, Darlinghurst

Sat 15^th Oct: Film screenings, Opera House

Sun 16^th Oct: ‘Push It’ rides from City to Bondi. Film screenings, Bondi

Stefan and Simone – directior Matty Lambert

Jakartarck – director Ari Rusyadi

More info http://www.facebook.com/sydneybff and here: http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/

“GOLD SPRINTIN’ “, 24×18″, black and metallic gold ink on white paper, 2011

Poster for ARTCRANK Denver 2011
Edition of 30

Next weekend promises to be super dope as BFF rolls into San Francisco with a sick line-up of events, films and shorts.

You can buy tickets and see the full schedule HERE.
But peep the teaser, as it goes a lil something like this:

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 22
GOLDSPRINTS KICK-OFF PARTY
The Knockout
3233 Mission St.
9:30pm-2am
Goldsprints at 10pm
Free to race, drink specials, prizes.
DJ Nate Rotsko
DJ Serious Leisure

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23
BIKE MOVIES AT THE VICTORIA
2961 16th St.
7:00-11:00pm
Free Bike Valet Provided by Mike’s Bikes

Rapha Cycle Club Rides to the BFF
Cycle Club SF
2198 Filbert St.
6:30pm Beers
8pm Group Ride to the Victoria Theatre
(Program 2, Racing Towards Red Hook)
Don’t forget to get your tickets in advance!

Program 1 // Bill Cunningham New York – 7:00pm
Program 2 // Racing Towards Red Hook – 9:00pm

AFTER PARTY
Bender’s Bar
806 South Van Ness Ave. at 19th St.
10pm-2am

SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 24
BFF STREET PARTY
Capp St. between 16th & 17th St.
12:00-6:00pm
BMX Jam hosted by STF
Fixed Gear Free Style Comp hosted by iMinusD
BMX Presentation by 2hip (Ron Wilkerson)
Scraper Bike Crew
plus vendors

BFF Rides with Mike Giant
(see website for start location and time)
(Leaving from BFF Street Party)

BIKE MOVIES AT THE VICTORIA

Program 3 // Womens Screening – 12:30:00pm
(WOMENS SCREENING BY WOMEN ABOUT WOMEN, YEE!)
Program 4 // – Fun Bike Shorts 2:30pm
Program 5 // With My Own Two Wheels – 4:30pm
Program 6 // BMX Screening- 6:30pm
Program 7 // Urban Bike Shorts – 8:30pm

BIKES ROCK! AFTER PARTY
Milk Bar
1840 Haight St.
10pm-2am
HOTTUB
ImmaBillU
El Elle (Lisa Light)
And Special Guests!
Free with BFF Ticket Stub. $5 General Admission.

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 25
BBQ KICK-BACK
Rickshaw
904 22nd St. at Minnesota St.
12-5pm
Free BBQ & Beer

Big thanks out to all the volunteers that make this event possible.
Be sure to show em some love when you see em <3!
Hope to see you out there!