The Radavist

These bad boys have been coveted by fixed freestyle riders for months and they’re now available from Resist:

“Our long (very long) awaited Contact micro cassette hub just arrived and we’re already shipping them out to shops.  The thing is straight badass for anyone that wants to go to a micro drive fixed driver.  You can check out the specs on the Contact page.  Get at em’ quick, our orders are already looking slim.  Thanks for the patience on these guys.”

Thanks for pulling through on this one Resist. Everyone’s gonna be stoked.

Sorry for the lack of updates today. I woke up thinking we were doing a little, 20 mile ride and ended up doing much more than that. I hope everyone’s Friday afternoon is moving fast, but if it’s not, check out some videos from the day.

Photo by Rick Anderson

While at Midwest Mayhem 3, Rick got a few shots of some of the riders, including this one of Matt, doing a moto whip over a box jump. Head over to Rick’s Flickr to see more.

Soundtrack just posted this video for the 2012 Fixed Days event.

“In line with the world’s biggest bicycle trade show EUROBIKE we are happy to invite you aswell to one of europeans biggest event dedicated to the fixed wheel.

From the 29th of August until the 2nd of September the FIXED DAYS 2012 will offer various actions you could perfectly combine with your bike-interest by visiting the huge bicycle exhibition – or just sweeten your holiday at the biggest lake of europe submontane of the alps which is really more than worth to visit and ride.

If you have any question, or if you want to register your self to the contest go on the website !!!

fixed-days.com/
soundtrack-paris.com
traffic-distribution.com/”

Fixed Days 2012 Teaser from SoundTrack on Vimeo.

I’ve always liked JBall’s riding and here’s a great example why. This one’s good. Packed with some creative street riding. Obviously, I love the bigspin and the wall to bar. Nice.

Photo by Shakes O’Meara

Midwest Mayhem 3 organizers Antonyo, Sam and Kris shot over Shakes’ photo of the attendees and a little thank you to the sponsors:

“The turnout was small but the energy was big and very positive! Midwest Mayhem 3 could not have happened if it wasn’t for the support of 4 Seasons Skatepark, Hotel Foster, iMiNUSD, Unknown Bike Co, TTV blog, Thomas Bike Shop, Chop Em Down Films, The Grime, #fixiefamous and all of the other sponsors that took part in the event this year. A very special thanks to Gus Molina for the work on the fliers and the downright amazing illustration on the TTV Midwest Mayhem shirts.

Photo by Dave Beard

One thing I’ve always admired about Dave Beard’s photography is his use of lighting. This photo is perfect. The whites and blacks are balanced, just like Elliot is here, popping a nose mannie out of a feeble. Even the BMX in the foreground just adds to the photo. You can really tell this was a riding session, first and foremost, leaving the photo as just an unexpected afterthought. Great work guys. See the sequence to this at Dave Beard’s site.

Royal HC‘s team is back with another video. Watch as Marco Marquez, Johnathan Ball, Elliott Milner, and Gabriel Garcia rip it up.

Photo by Eisuke Sekiguchi

I think this is my favorite photo that anyone ever shot at the Peel Sessions. Eisuke, or Sexy Sushi as he’s known, shot Jeremiah from Hold Fast tire-tapping this column, before there was a Hold Fast strap. It’s been years (2008) since people rode 700c with 28c tires and well over two years since Peel Sessions. I really miss those days but I’m glad Eisuke re-upped this photo. Nostalgia dies hard.

I met Matt and the rest of the Wheel Talk guys at Interbike two years ago, right before they announced they had been working with Specialized on their P-Fix 26″ fixed freestyle completes. In those two years, fixed freestyle has grown and grown and grown. Hats off to Matt for hustling hard and matching his riding with his positive attitude.

When I see bikes like this, all I hear is “KABOOOOOOOOM” “CRUUUUSHHHHH” “CLANNNNG”. The sounds of a big-boy bike. 29’rs will always look more bad ass than 26″, sorry! Check out more of this mother fuckin’ beast at the Breakbrake 17 blog. Torey, this shit looks raw as hell.

Ready for more Antonyo? He and Elliot filmed this promo video for the new Unknown Bike V3 26″ fgfs frames.

Who else can pull off putting Milwaukee’s own  Jeffrey Dahmer on a t-shirt for Midwest Mayhem 3 than TTv blog? Swoop one now and check out the final flier for the event below.

So rad. So, so rad. I just watched this twice. Antonyo is on fire right now. Do not miss his 2012 edit for WRAHW.

What a pleasant surprise. Tyler Johnson getting savvy for COAL Headwear. Digging this for sure. Loved the pedal / crank slide to lift up over the bench, all the wheelie lines, the bump jumps, the nollie lines and the damn truck driver. Very nice dude.

Hell yeah! I love seeing duders getting to travel. Jacob Ruff’s a great guy and this video by K Birdie shows him ripping in Taiwan.

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Photo by Matt Reyes

Josh and Matt have become close riding buddies since they both live in the Bay Area. Here’s a recent photo Matt took of Josh bunnyhopping a hydrant. Check out more at Wheel Talk Fixed.