The Radavist

I’ve been wanting to take more street-style bike photographs as of late and since Ian’s such a handsome fella’, I figured I’d start it off with him. Oh, his work bike ain’t too bad either.

Streetsblog did a survey with Squid for their MY NYC Biking Story series. Dude, you’re 40? You look 25 Kevin!

Photo by Takuya Sakamoto

Victor, bro, you’re #fixiefamous! Loving this photo Tak.

Mmmmmm. Yeah, I’ll go see it. Mostly to see Austin and Tom riding on the big screen.

“I’m gonna go drink a beer…” well said man. Solid video from Bill of CX Hairs of the 2012 NACCCs in RVA.

Photo by Michael Giroux

Jake’s such a nice dude that I have to post photos of him when they pop up. These ones of him riding in Seattle came out too good. Check the rest out at Pedal Consumption.

When I met up with Josh to shoot photos of his LOW track bike, he had one last run to make on his shift. When he pulled up the USPS box on his pursuit bars, I had to get a few shots of him. Great bike and a great dude.

Photos by Sean O’Donnell

I get bummed out when I can’t make it to events like the NACCC but then seeing people’s photos almost makes me feel like I was there, minus all the booze and partying. Well, almost…

Check out the rest of Sean’s photos from the 2012 NACCC here! Seattle has the pleasure of hosting 2013 and congrats to Minneapolis for landing the hosting for the 2014 NACCC!

Premium Rush, the movie that used both Austin Horse and Tom LaMarche for stunt doubles, is spinning up to its August 24th premiere. Check out all the goodies here. Look, we all know the story line blows but it’ll be pretty rad seeing a movie like this on the big screen (or a torrent).

And this is by far the best flier I’ve seen in years. Amazing! If you’re heading to Richmond this weekend for the NACCCs, have fun!

Austin Horse worked on this event with Red Bull for the 2012 NACCC. This art-based alleycat features 5 artists, all messenger photographers. All have contributed pieces to the
event, themed on the way of the bike. The photographs are from various messengers, around the world.  These photos have been divided into 6 pieces and each piece goes to a different checkpoint.

The event begins from inside the empty walls of the gallery, where the riders rush out to the first checkpoint and collect the first piece. Then the second and so on.

Where:
Gallery 5 Richmond VA
200 West Marshall Street  Richmond, VA 23220

When:
May 24th
7 pm orientation
8 pm event start
9 pm recognition

Check out more information at the Red Bull Art Attack Facebook page.

If you’ve got 19 minutes tonight, you should really watch this documentary on cycling in Brussels. It’s not just your ordinary courier documentary, it’s a story about how the car has created one of the least cycling friendly cities in Europe. I thought all Flemish cities were havens for the bicycle but Brussels only boasts 4% cycling traffic. Some of these shots make Brussels look like Los Angeles at rush hour.

DC has a long-standing courier culture and this new short film explores just that:

“The bicycle messenger has been a fixture of the Washington DC landscape for decades. This mini-documentary explores a handful of the present day road warriors as they battle traffic and technology in pursuit of a fair wage and a freewheeling style of life. This is a preliminary cut, currently in post-production wrap up. Produced as part of the Corcoran School of Art + Design New Media Photojournalism Masters Program by Fixed Focus Productions. Fixed Focus is Maria Helena Carey, Dakota Fine, Reyna Levine, and Colby Waller. Thanks to Joel Gwadz for insight on cycling culture.”

Check out more here.

The Beast of the East NACCC Pre-Event looks like it’s gonna be a blast. Keep on top of the details here.

High speed riding through Hong Kong? Sure. Check out this new commercial for the Ukrainian energy drink brand “Non Stop”.

Photo by Kevin Dillard

As a jump start to the NACCC, the Mark of the Beast alleycat went down in DC last month. Demoncats founder Kevin Dillard was there to catch all the action. Head over to Demoncats to check the rest out.