June 09 Archive
Wolfpack Hustle All City Race III
Al, Adam Shap, Fox, Jason Spires, and I formed our team, Ride Slow Oakland, on Friday and drove down Friday night to the Wolfpack Hustle All-City III team race. We arrived back in Oakland two days later with a 4th place finish and a lot of new friends and great memories. Thanks for Kyle and Adria from Tracko from putting us up in your tiny apartment and especially Adria for cooking us breakfast and letting Fox graze your fruit trees.
This race is one of the most exciting I've ever done. The trip and the race had everything - traffic, freeways, road bikes, cops, helicopters, teamwork, wind, crashes, teenagers, old men, Cat 1s, strategy, madison slings, cutty routing, shit-talking, BBQs, sand wrestling, Keo trick demo, scooter film crews, beer, homemade tortillas, bike thieves, backflips, and...it just goes on. If they manage to pull off a Wolfpack 4 next year, make the trip, you'll be glad you did. Special thanks to Ryan & Akira @ Kinfolk, Everyone at Orange 20 (Jim, Mark, Andrea) Tracko Kyle & Real Tracko Adria, Ty @ EAI, Hern, John, DJneight (Suzue Carbons - thanks!). I have not smiled that much after a race in a long time. And special congrats and respect to Wolfpack A - we're gonna make you work next year.
More photos here, courtesy of Orange 20.
Did I mention David Rowe (Fast Friday) was filming the whole thing for his next film? Four bike cams, scooter follow cams, intersection cams, and a helicopter cam. Can't wait to see this one!
Endless summer
7 RIDERS (6 FIXED, 1 ROAD), 5-6 DAYS, RIDING SF TO LA FOR THE SAKE OF RIDING WITH FRIENDS!
You can follow them on the road while they update every night or every other night at www.houseofcommonslv.com and www.fatlace.com/stayfresh/hoc
DVD Release Update
I wanted to post these two emails from our replicator/printer as to notify the public of what we have been dealing with. I have left out other emails in between, but these are just two examples of the delay. We are under heavy scrutiny for this dvd not being released yet and we have honestly been doing the best we can to expedite this process. Unfortunately it is not in our hands and it seems our project has been put on the back burner. Regarding the second email in this entry the final booklet proof was in their hands on June 5th as well as all the other proofs and check discs. It has now taken nearly a month to get this to us. Believe me when I say I cannot wait any longer for this than everyone else. The new date we have been told is now June 30th at the latest. I can't apologize any more for the delay and I am extremely frustrated with the outcome of this thus far.
Sincerely, Colin
On Jun 10, 2009, at 11:05 AM, "" ...@...mediallc.com wrote:
Colleen,
The disc will print tomorrow. The digipak is in process. The revised slip case will print this week.
Today we got the new file from Steve for the Rev Booklet. If all goes well from this point forward I would estimate approx 7 biz days or better.
Thanks
From: Date: June 17, 2009 11:42:58 AM PDT To: "Colleen" colleenb@yahoo.com Subject: RE: Hello
Colleen,
The discs are replicated, print today or tomorrow. The Digiapaks should be here by end of the week or early next week, with the slip case following a couple days behind it.
Steve N. approved the revised booklet on 6/15/09. so that one is at least 5 days out.
Once I have all the dry goods, it will be 2-3 days to hand pack. When they all come in , I’ll advise you.
Thanks
Sucka Free
Our homey Mattycakes is cookin up something good
keepin' it deep [a messenger story] from mattycakes on Vimeo.
NYC article
Nice NY times photojournal.
http://nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html?hp&hp#steven_marmo
Team Sprint
OTB photo
Matias, Marzio, and Gio last year at Alpenrose.
"Drive with those hips!" -Matias
this week
I bumped into friends on a ride in Marin
and fifteen pounds of wild Boletus rex-veris in Tahoe National Forest.
July 19th
The Bicycle Film Festival is coming to Oakland this year, for a one-day thing right after the SF stop. I'm producing it, and throwing this race along with other fun stuff...
More about all this later, I just wanted to give everyone a heads up!
