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Red Hook Criterium 2012 from Circle Entertainment on Vimeo.

Circle Entertaiment

While headed to the grocery store while traveling through Petaluma, California, I randomly came across the Rapha bus, as they are filming a California ride. Team rider Evil Ryan was kind enough to provide me with a cycling cap and let me take pictures of the bus.. thanks!

if you have not yet viewed the women’s prestige, here it is:

The nonprofit organization KVIBE (Kalihi Valley Instructional Bike Exchange) has ordered a custom made cargo bike by Portland, Oregon company Metrofiets to make their mechanic program mobile. The plan is to extend their warehouse beyond the building by traveling to nearby schools to teach underprivileged youth about bicycles, on a bicycle.  Before heading to its final home at KVIBE, the cargo bike did a bit of sightseeing and racing! KVIBE coordinator Sau Hsu pedaled me around Honolulu and beyond in the cargo load for a few great adventures.

Photo Stop: Waikiki Beach!

You don’t need a cargo bike to transport giant things in Hawaii.. bicycle surfboard racks do the trick!

The bike poses with Olympic swimmer Duke Kahanamoku

Sau pedaled the cargo bike with me in it for a 12.8 mile time trial over rolling hills and through the rain.. epic!

View from the rainy cargo hold

Sau being a champ, suffering up the final hill to pedal me into my first place female mountain bike finish!

The cargo bike is at its new home in Kalihi Valley, about to go on its first official work-related ride on March 17th for the Great Kalihi Cargo Haul. The ride will promote youth cycling by providing up to 100 helmets for kids and encourage the children to work on the land, with the ending point at the Kokua Kalihi Valley nature preserve, Ho’oulu ‘Aina.

Many apologies for the absence… So many fun things happened this year since I moved to Berlin. The sun is setting earlier. The air is dark and chilly. Woah it’s already December! The end of a year. So a catch up. One more big party is coming up for your all year conclusion! I need more girls to race! ( ´艸｀) 〜♡

+ + THIS FRIDAY December 9, at Keirin Cycle Culture Café. Roll at 8:00pm + +

Pioneers of the global fixed gear bike culture Keirin Cycle Culture Café and Rollapaluza come together for the first ever Rollapaluza roller-race in Berlin.

Keirin Cycle Culture Café:

Keirin Cycle Culture Café is recognized worldwide as the first ever “fixed gear shop” having first opened back in 2004 as a hangout for their messenger mates (all members of Keirin and Rollapaluza are ex-couriers), selling them coffee, bikes and parts and mending their bikes. ( http://www.keirinberlin.de/ )

Rollapaluza:

The first Rollapaluza roller race was held in a pub in London in 2000 and Rollpaluza involves two riders racing over 500 metres on custom built static roller-rigs with their progress displayed on a huge dial and their times recorded by split-second digital timing, all to the backdrop of cheering crowds and pumping music.

Never seen Rollapaluza? check their movies: http://www.rollapaluza.de/movies

P.S. I’ll tell you about this + more stuff… but later.

Hello Ladies (and Gents) of Honolulu!

Please show up at Anna Bananas on Friday (the 26th) for Honolulu’s first roller sprints! There will be a chicks division for the tournament and apparently some great prizes. Race your friends and see who is the fastest, win prizes, dance yer sweet boo-tay off to local bands! There are 2 brand new and identical pake frames to race on.. awesome

Race sign up begins at 8pm, with the first round beginning at 9pm. Anyone can race, Mens and Womens divisions, prizes to be won as well as raffle give aways! $10 cover includes race entry fee and goes to the bands.

http://haleakavelo.com/ for more info!

A Beautiful Ride.

Join us for the 7th annual Hub On Wheels citywide bike ride on Sunday, September 25th, 2011. Experience a car-free Storrow Drive, explore hidden pathways and historic neighborhoods, and take in views of the Boston Harbor that you’ve never seen before.

The ride starts and finishes on City Hall Plaza in downtown Boston, with three different routes to choose from: 10, 30 and 50 miles. Sign up now for what’s sure to be the best ride of the year. You haven’t seen the Hub until you’ve seen it on wheels.

An Action-Packed Race.

You won’t want to miss the third annual TD Bank Mayor’s Cup Professional Criterium race, the same weekend. More than two hundred professional racers, including national champions and Olympic cyclists, descend on Government Center to compete for $40,000 in prize money.

The TD Bank Mayor’s Cup is high-speed, spectator-friendly entertainment. Tight packs of professional cyclists will sprint around the course and dive into sharp corners at top speed.

An All-Day Cycling Celebration.

The Boloco Block Party will be in full swing all day long. City Hall Plaza will be one big bike festival with food, music, and an expo. Also be sure to catch the second annual mascot race and the kids’ race, open to any and all cyclists age 3-9.

Its the first goldsprints event in Singapore and i am proud to be one of the organizers for the event. Here’s some pictures of the event which took place a month ago.

This last Sunday the boys from from Jakarta Bikerack and I have a chance to attend an event called Tenxector, this event was provide by Sector, a local fixed gear community in Jakarta and Tendencies, local clothing label. We started at 6 o’clock in the morning until 5 pm , the air is pretty hot and suddenly a bit of rain dripping, but it was just temporary. My friend Mamad submitting the race, it’s a bit hardcore I tell ya, between the traffic and all but it was cool and still under control, the main part that we all having fun, Mamad won the 2nd place. My favorite race to watch it was custom low rider bicycle drag race! they were awesome! just brings out the smile in everybody’s face. Before I go home I closed the Sunday night out with the boys grab a bite to eat then go to the movies…What a day. Warm greetings to Sector, can’t wait for their next event.

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So long since my last post here, well I gotta tell you that our fixed gear scene here are gettin’ hot more and more day by day. I can’t missed one event cause the atmosphere is just amazing. Here’s to you

JAKARTA FIXED FEST 2011

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