The Radavist

Jeff from All-City sent this my way. The new All-City Photo Annual is out (V3 already?!) and the new All-City product catalog. Each year it gets better and better. See more here. I’ve even got some shots in there this year.

Photo by Damian Riehl

If you follow Damian on his Tumblr, you’ll notice his ability to capture people in very candid poses, almost like they didn’t even realize he had a camera on him. These last few photos of some of the “old dinosaurs”, as he calls them, of Portland are perfect. Head over to his Flickr to check a few more out.

Photo by Brenton Salo

Seeing Sharky in Portland can be described as seeing a “ball of muscle” wound up and spinning on his track bike. Brenton happened to get a great shot of Sharky at rest, with his knee tattoos in focus. Great photo man.

While a lot of companies are trying to cash in on Premium Rush with horrid “fixies”, Affinity was the company that supplied the movie with the bikes.   To commemorate this weekend’s premiere, Affinity has a limited supply of Premium Rush Affinity Metropolitan completes. Here’s the press-release:

“With the upcoming release of the movie Premium Rush, The Affinity Bicycle Co. has played a key role and supplied its Metropolitan and Kissena frame sets for the main character Wilee played by Joseph Gordon Levitt and Kym Perfetto, a NYC bike messenger and fitness guru who has a cameo and also worked as a stunt double for co star Dania Ramirez.

The Affinity Metropolitan ridden by Wilee is a street and track specific bike made from 4130 steel and created to handle to rigors of street riding but with the aggressive race geometry of a track bike. Unlike its predecessor the Lo Pro, Affinity’s first and more notable pursuit style track frame, the Metropolitan is a more understated work horse, with its stream lined look and straight blade fork. It comes street ready with front and rear brake options, making it legal on the road or pull the brakes off for use on the velodrome.

Catch the Metropolitan limited edition frame set in pure white, with the classic Affinity bladed crown lugged fork. Also available in limited quantities, Affinity will be supplying an original sticker pack. Make your bike rad by customizing the frame so its just like the movie bike.”

Check out more photos below and be sure to check the Affinity Blog for info on the group ride to the premiere.

If you’ve been a regular at any NYC alleycat in the past decade, chances are you’ve seen Daniel Leeb there with an entire crew documenting it. He’s been compiling video for the past ten years and has reached the point where he’s ready to do something with it. From the looks of the trailer, Messengers is a documentary about alleycats in NYC, following two key figures: Felipe and Alfred.

Cinecycle has a Kickstarter, so head over to help out.

Chas has been talking about doing this for some time now and honestly, I’d rather watch this than a track bike hill bomb. So good!

Photo by Jake Ricker

With everyone finally detoxing from CMWC, it’s great to see the first runs of film photography making it out of the processing facilities. Jake’s photos from Chicago (and the ride to Chicago) are great. If you really want to see a behind the scenes look at the comradery that goes down at events like this, check out his Flickr photos here.

Photo by Peter DiAntoni

From the velodrome to the streets… CMWC was last weekend in Chicago and while there is more coverage coming to the site shortly, I had to post up this photo Peter from COG magazine took of the classic LeMans race start. I love the energy these starts create. Great photo Pete!

Photo by Chris Trigaux

There have been a few events over the past few months that I’ve really wanted to attend. The Beast of the East being one of them. I really wanted to ride along with the guys and document this messenger stage race to the 2012 NACCC and I haven’t seen a whole lot of photos from the event. That was until Chris emailed me a link to his Tumblr. Check the rest out here!

It’s not every day that a magazine contacts me to submit content for a forthcoming issue. So when they do, I’m usually pretty pumped. Case in point: the new Embrocation. Volume 8 is filled with a bunch of photos from my last trip to NYC, coinciding with a story written by Neil Bezdek. But it doesn’t stop there, this new issue is packed with juicy content. Make sure you pick one up at your local stockist or order one here at Embrocation.

As an homage to the classic “smokers” photo from the Tour of yesteryear, Kevin Dillard of Demoncats submitted this remake to the Fyxation photographer’s contest, landing him in the finalist list. See more at Fyxation.

I heard this was out of control, but I was not expecting this!

“What started out as a side event of “Side View Mirror Kick” at the 2011 CMWC in Warsaw Poland, quickly evolved into an all out free-for-all destruction session initiated by Von Munz of Milwaukee, WI.

intro color footage shot by Nico Deportago-Cabrera”

COG

Photo by Damian Riehl

We all need a little face watching over our bikes when they’re locked up in the wild. Nice shot Damain.

Lucas Brunelle‘s DVD Line of Sight is now available for pre-order on his website. Check out the official trailer above and pre-order a copy of this DVD here. It’s slated for a July 1st release.

This is too good. I hope everyone’s ready for the 2012 CMWC in Chicago!