We’ll be downtown tonight to heckle the racers at the final event of the 13 Skids race series. Come on down and join us at the race at the 6th St. Bridge… See the LA Fixed Post for more details…

We closed down the block this past weekend as we hosted the Bicycle Film Festival block party for the second year in a row!  Hundreds of people showed up despite the oppressively hot weather.

There were DJ’s, Burrito’s, BMX and fixed gear competitions all day long.

The highlight of the day was the special performance by legendary artistic cyclist Ines Brunn.  If you think pedaling bar spin wheelies on a track bike is impressive check this out. Ines performed her world famous Kunst Rad Show and upped the fixed gear ante by pulling circular backwards seated pedaling death truck maneuvers over the rough and uneven road in front of our shop.

Ines also let us tool around on her trick bike, and later we had a private session with some of the local LA flatlanders. Much Respect Ines!

Ines was also riding a new pink Cinelli track bike laced with silver Level hubs and platform pedals. We had a chance to ride around some and it was a suprise to me that this was a new cycling genre to Ines. We hooked her up with some custom painted pink GR-9s with clips and straps before turning her loose on the streets of San Francisco.

Ines Brunn – Los Angeles 7/20/08 from Tiffany Olmedo on Vimeo.

Last November we were invited to do this thing called The LA Project with Paper Magazine. It was a kind of fine art/consumer art 24 hour 711 style expo on LaBrea near 3rd. While we were there I met the owner of LA Eyeworks (a local designer eyewear boutique). Long story short I have eyeglasses and they have bikes in thier three store front windows.

We borrowed my friend’s custom built Hotdog pin-striped 10 foot lowrider and put it into the 7386 Beverly location. At 7407 Melrose we set up a Dutch delivery bike and a ladies commuter. In the South Coast plaza in Costa Mesa we made a custom Affinity track bike. Check them out if you get a chance the exhibit is up for at least a few more days.

we have the smallest bike shop ever and they have 3 stores with great window spaces.

Bicycle Film Festival (see previous post), and we will be closing to attend as many showings as possible. WE WILL BE CLOSED EARLY ( 6PM ) FRIDAY AND ALL DAY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY FOR THE FESTIVAL!! SUNDAY IS THE BLOCK PARTY ON N. HELIOTROPE – RIGHT OUTSIDE THE SHOP!! Come on by Sunday and see some amazing riding by Ines Brunn!!!

The street will be closed all day, but the action isn’t going to start ’til early afternoon. WE WILL NOT BE OPEN FOR BUSINESS ON SUNDAY!!

Also, we just got in a few more Affinity Cycles frames and 3 more Brooklyn Machine Works Gangsta frames… along with some other trick goodies. Hope to see you out on your bike this weekend!

Yep, that’s right – it’s time once again for the yearly incarnation of the Los Angeles installation of the Bicycle Film Festival! Check out the schedule – this year’s programs are amazing! WE WILL BE CLOSED SATURDAY FOR THE FESTIVAL! This year’s program definitely features the riding in Los Angeles with some films highlighting LA’s cycling culture and riders, i.e.: Lucas Brunelle’s Worldwide Adventures (w/ footage from last year’s events), The Bike Lane, LA Bike Scene, Taco Tuesday, and Wolfpack Hustle: a Midnight Dragrace.
Of course, the Bicycle Film Festival has a movie for every type of cyclist – for flatlanders, there’s the Tico Jam – for roadies, there’s the Coppi documentary, Standing Still, and the Road to Roubaix movie – for track riders, there’s Keirin, Bang-King, Fixie Dave, Macaframa, the Making of Bootleg Sessions 2, and the Six-Day Bicycle Races – for messengers and traffic junkies, the Lucas Brunelle movie and Skitch King are sure to get your blood flowing – and there’s a lot more…
Click HERE to see the schedule and read the rest of the post to find out about the block party…

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Some exciting news from the shop… We picked up some BLACK, PINK, GREEN, GOLD, RED, and BLUE Nitto components the other day, and they look great! We’ve got the B259 riser bars with a 25.4 clamp diameter (the same as a regular mountain bike clamp) in all colors, B123 drop bars (25.4 clamp) in all colors, and RB021 pursuit bars (26.0 clamp) in all colors! This is a limited run from Nitto, and we also have matching AA Pro stems and NJ-SP 72 seatposts! We also got some of the ever-popular, black RB018 pursuit bars! Please call or come by if you’re interested in any of these…they won’t last long!

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ALSO in stock, we have hot GREEN and hot PINK Gran Compe tires from Dia-Compe. Check our store for pictures and prices.
And check out the rest of this entry for photos from the Velodrome Omnium this weekend!

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