Damn cool trailer, makes me wanna see the whole movie.

It’s a while you heard from me but this makes me smile, messenger poetry by Kurt Boone (and buy it)!
Check a preview here with illustrations of Greg Ugalde.

Thanks to Carlos!

Since he’s an almost full time messenger for a month already, and he will be riding in full spandex! Including shaven legs…

Well done! Now only I need to find a job…

Pic found at Milano Fixed.

I would go if I had the money, CMWC 2010 Guatemala. And see a other good friend again, hope you got a great time there Nadir!

Just came across this fid and I had to post it. It’s been too long ago I meet my friend Felipe. I even miss the guy sometimes…… But it also made me wondering about all the fixed gear shit thats going around (specially here in Holland). This guy is by far the fastest messenger on the planet (no joke) and he sticks by riding freewheel with two perfectly working brakes.

Don’t get me wrong I like riding fixed, but on the job I would choose two brakes and freewheel now a days. And of course a helmet! But Felipe is excused because he is immortal, for real! Hope to see you soon bro, love ya!

p.s. For example this guy won the first backward circle competition during the worlds in Zurich on a freewheel bike!

As seen on Prolly.

XXXXL messenger bags from Velo City Bags, found at Pedal Consumption

So you wanna look like a real messenger? Come to Arnhem join us for the Arnhem Uphill Alleycat Classic (14:00) on the 29th of may! And/because our good friend and longtime messenger Le Haute is also organizing a auction (20:00). And I know the guy a bit and I can say he is selling some really good shit. Like this fuccing Zo bag…….

And of course it’s all for a good cause, Tour for Live.

Finally an article that’s not about how dangerous and reckless riding a fixie is, like almost every article here in Holland.

If it’s not fixed, it’s broke, by Mary Buckheit:

There’s a new fix-ture of urban living. 
Just as bulky SUVs and expensive luxury vehicles have lost their cool with the kids in the city, so too have mega mountain bikes with tiers of teeth, and carbon-fiber, gazillion-geared, Tour-de-Finance roadsters.

Stand on any street corner and you’re bound to spot a sporty and simple breed of speed. They’re everywhere — sewing through New York traffic, circling the squares of Boston, flying down San Francisco hills and hanging from the hooks of Portland’s public transport.

Though fixed-gear bicycles have been experiencing an urbanite riding renaissance for the past decade, they’ve been around for centuries and obviously preceded their multispeed brethren. (The first Tour de France was staged in 1903. Roger Lapebie, who won the Tour in 1937, was the first to win it on a geared bike. You do the math.)

Henri Desgrange, the originator of the Tour de France, and tyrannical cycling purist, is known to have denounced multispeed bikes, saying, “I still feel that the variable gears are only for people over 45. Isn’t it better to triumph by the strength of your muscles than by the artifice of a derailleur? We are getting soft. As for me, give me a fixed-gear!”

The article is a lot longer, and you can read it right here. Don’t be scared, it’s a good read!