The Radavist

Last time I posted an illustration from Chris Piascik’s All My Bikes series, I mentioned that I would be cherry-picking the ones that I posted. I think Chris had a very similar experience as most of us. First you got your conversion. For me it was a Peugeot. Then you get a mail-order bike; Chris’ was a Kilo TT. Mine was an IRO angus. You realize the parts were shit (well, I ordered my Iro as a frameset and let a LBS build it) and you quickly start to replace the stock components. All this work and before you know it, you’ve dropped over $800 on a bike that could have easily been bought locally.

If I had a penny for every person that told me a story like this, I could buy a Jalapeno-cheddar bagel.

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 15

After picking up numerous other bikes, Chris picked up a Lotus Cobra MX-1 at a tag sale. The Cobra comes in as his All My Bikes 07. Dude, you must have a ton of bikes if you’re cranking one out every day!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 06
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 05
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 04
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 03
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 02
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 01

Damn Chris, you must have mowed a lot of yards. You’ve had more BMXs than I’ve had track bikes! Well, maybe I’m exaggerating. Every day that Chris posts an “All My Bikes” illustration, I keep thinking it’s going to be a track bike. Here, once again is one of his BMXs, a Schwinn Predator!

Previously:
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 05
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 04
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 03
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 02
Chris Piascik: All My Bikes 01

One of my favorite artists made it into IDN‘s new book entitled “The New Twenties“. Like a good cyclist, Chris Piascik selected his Major Taylor posters and a few other cycling-specific pieces for the book that’s main focus is:

The New Twenties: A scintillating survey of the work of today’s 20-somethings, who were all brought up in the technological boom years of the late 20th Century – and whose concepts of self-promotion and networking are radically different from those of their predecessors. In this third IdN Special Edition, we have collaborated with Society6, one of the largest online platforms for up-and-coming designers, to showcase the talent of 58 brilliant young artists with a contemporary outlook on creativity and communicating.

Congrats man!

Photo by Christopher Lee

When I just caught this on Flickr, I thought it looked familiar. Chris Lee shot some photos of AJ and Puckett a while back and this one was supposed to be a Volume ad. They ended up going with the stair gap photo by Danny instead so Chris just upped a few. Looks fucking ill Eric and I like this one better than the other shot. Look at AJ looking up at Eric. Keep going at it guys!

Previously:
Volume Thrasher Ad with Eric Puckett
AJ and Puckett: Sunday in Austin

Photo by Chis Milliman

Freeman Transport and Chis Milliman teamed up to do a photo-essay of the personal and business matters of Benjamin Ferencz, the founder of Freeman. The photos turned out great Ben!

More information is below.

Photos by Keith Teket and Rick Anderson

I have to say, this is pretty fucking rad. Christina from Bmore Fixed and Gabby from Milwaukee hitting some stairs. Gabby’s recent blog entry on her Charge Diary has a brief story about her doing a 4-stair gap and Cristina’s entry to the Pikey Bags x Headset Clothing x Prolly is not Probably Give-Away has her hitting this 4-stair in downtown Baltimore. I watched Christina fall hard four or five times in Richmond trying to do a wallride. She ate shit so many times and still got back up to go for it again. Tough girl!

These ladies are putting in their work. Keep at it!

Previously:
Bmore Fixed: Christina Panteliodis
Charge Bikes Welcomes Gabrielle Gulczynski

Chris Akrigg THE MAURICE.0 from chris akrigg on Vimeo.

Um. What the fuck. Wow. Balls to the walls riding. Chris Akrigg does it again on the Mongoose Maurice. After shaking the roots of the fixed freestyle crowd with One Gear No Idea, Chris is back at it with another Banger-filled edit he filmed while in Barcelona. Nutty! This is hands down the best shit of 2010 so far. The last few clips had my jaw dropped! All without foot retention. DAMN.

Thanks to Nick for the heads up!

Previously:
Mongoose – Maurice Fixed Gear Bicycle
Chris Akrigg: Brakeless
Chris Akrigg: One Gear No Idea

Illustration by Chris Piascik

Part of Trick Track‘s recent face-lift was a new logo drawn by Boston-based artist Chris Piascik. The above illustration is one of two backgrounds Chris worked on for the forums, before being told that they couldn’t be bike related. Whoops is right! There’s a ton of detail in this drawing. Here’s the full-resolution image. I spent a good amount of time looking at all the little product plugs and characters. Nice work Chris!

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Chris just got his Bruiser back from the painters. It looks amazing. I gotta say it man, that’s some Phoenician royalty right there. Here’s a side story on that. The Phoenician’s were the first to create the purple, or violet dye. All of their kings were adorned in it and it became a sign of royalty. In fact, the word Phoenician, derived from phoinikèia, literally means “purple”. Now I’m not implying that Chris is royalty, but I love his art and this bike is molten lava.

Chris Akrigg Brakeless Part 1 from Jordan Robison on Vimeo.

I saw this back when I posted the original edit of Chris Akrigg riding fixed. At the time, It wasn’t anything that blew me away. It is really impressive, but like most people will say “it’s done better on a BMX” and it’s true. Hell, that’s true for just about any bike you’d do tricks on but it doesn’t mean you can’t wheelie your road bike, ride your MTB in a park or even do tricks on a fixed gear and if you wanted to race the TDF on your BMX, go for it! Bikes are bikes. Who really cares? The post is continued below.

Now have Bootleg Sessions profiles up. Chris and Jeremiah both have improved so much in the past few months and are now on the roster for Bootleg Sessions 3.

Jeremiah briefly touches on the HOLD FAST project he’s been working on. It’s been awesome being a part of the process and I can’t wait for it to launch!

I love it when Tracko finds supplemental information on one of my posts. If you’re a fan of Chris King, don’t miss this issue of Peloton!

From Chris King (literally, himself) to the Cinelli Laser unveiling, e r t z u i ° film has a photo set up on their Flickr that is the ideal balance between quality and quantity. Check it out here!

Yep. I finally made it to Portland and it’s already been a whirlwind trip. Today I got a thorough shop tour of Chris King, swung by 21st Avenue Bicycle where Amanda took some embarrassing photos of me (and my sweet Texas water bottle) and finally ended up at the Rapha HQ. More stories and photos to come!

When it comes to headsets and road hubs, you can’t go wrong with Chris King. You know what’s good!

I absolutely love White Industries. Between Profile, Paul, Chris King Thomson and them, the 2011 NAHBS had component-heavy eye candy. While everyone else had a few new innovations, the quick-release pedal system that White Industries developed was the most creative thing I saw.

Check out a slideshow from my coverage of the 2011 NAHBS White Industries booth below.

Established in 1978, Cielo Cycles‘ shop is inside the Chris King compound. While Chris King has always made quality products, Cielo’s work shined at the 2011 NAHBS. With all of their CNC parts machined in house at their Portland workshop, Cielo offers the complete package.

Check out a slideshow from my coverage of the 2011 NAHBS Cielo Cycles booth below.