Tjeerd already posted about the Murder of Couriers project, but today I found a new edit on Prolly. Despite the fact I’ve never been a messenger, and most likely never will be, I really like the documentaires about bike messengers. In my opinion, as a fakenger, you gotta respect where the whole fixed gear culture came from. And you gotta know your place in this whole culture. We fakengers ain’t the shit. We just copy what messengers have been doing for ages.

Today is the start of the European Cycle Messenger Championships. Right, buddy, sounds like fun. My kind of enjoyment is also partly about bicycles. And also about getting together with people I like. But lately I found out that most of the courier thing is too much about hate and too little about love. Myself, I don’t give fucc what you do, did, will be doing. Just join your fake ass in und zieh dir deine Klamotten aus.

The second of May Tour de Ville (Eindhoven)  is organizing a alleycat. And we all know that means, PARTY! And everyone is invited so fakengers are welcome, I love those guy’s (and girls)!

More info soon…. Tommie?

I hope you saw it yesterday. Because it’s no longer accessible and this is why.

For those of you that regularly read the blog you’ll know that Saturday I posted the trailer for my new video, TRAkTION. Never in my wildest dreams would I anticipate the attention the video has gotten since I put it up. In the last 24-hours, I’ve managed to offend the fixed gear community and for that, I’m sorry. My intent was create an investigative video on a culture I’ve witnessed grow over the past few years. I’m new to the scene and should make it very clear that I’m a filmmaker, not a rider, so my approach was to make a video about the exploration of a culture that is unfamiliar to most, including myself. I decided to take the video down from the internet out of respect for Eric and LBFG, it was never my intent to bring bad press to their shop. I’ll be reediting the trailer within the next day or so and I still plan to complete this project. For those who have supported it, thank you. For those who hated it, I can only impact those opinions with the final product.

Read more at Bike Snob NYC and Prolly don’t forget to read the comments, it’s so funny!

Our opponents are the boys of F.I.A.G.R.A. And that stands for Fakengers In Arnhem Gotta Race AlleyCats. And with these guys we play polo every sunday and therefore they deserve a link! Because you know, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.