For the longest time I’ve been meaning to visit my friend Devotion’s bike workshop with my camera. Finally, the time and weather permitted an afternoon of shooting and after 4 hours, I ended up with some stellar photos documenting his consultancy entitled Cicli Devotion.

His tag line is “Classic racing bicycles & components bought, sold and refurbished”. Kind of ambiguous right? Well, that’s his niche.

I was really happy with how the photos came out. If you want to see more, head over to Prolly is not Probably.

This photo really captures the atmosphere at Peel Sessions. For those of you who don’t know what Peel Sessions is, there’s a good NYTimes article on it, giving you a pretty comprehensive background on the weekly trick meet-up I throw.

The spot is littered with skater’s creations; concrete banks, transitions and grind boxes. We were blasting the concrete kicker over the grind box last night and I caught Wonka tucked behind his saddle. I wish I would have gotten his head and the ground in the photo, but I’ll take this photo anyway. Ed Glazar, pictured behind Wonka, managed to get some great shots. Hopefully he’ll be posting them somewhere.

Wow. I am so sore right now. This past weekend was the Mid-West Mayhem, the world’s most significant event in the world of Fixedgear Freestyle. Now, I know it sounds kinda “meh” – but man, you seriously have no idea how insane it was. People from ALL OVER the country flew into Milwaukee in the dead of winter for an indoor trick jam. Texas, New Haven, NYC, Richmond, Sacramento, LA, Indiana. Everywhere. New bonds were made and new milestones were set.

Here’s a shot of Tom doing a pedal grind outside the Milwaukee War Monument by the Santiago Calatrava-designed Milwaukee Art Museum. That’s Peter from COG mag in the foreground and that’s his flash I sniped.

I’ve started writing recaps on my blog, so check out Day 1 here. More to come, including a NUTTY wallride from Ed Wonka.

Photo by Ed Glazar

I feel almost slightly embarrassed to post the above photo, but for the sake of documenting fixed freestyle, I’ll put it up. This is me, in 2007, riding my Iro Angus. I’m pretty sure I had just learned how to barspin this week and rode out to the Bicycle Fetish Day in Williamsburg to ’show off’. Ed Glazar was there taking photos and he recently emailed this to me. Made me laugh.

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Many truths here…

Via Pilfered Magazine

After spending 10 years in our Nolita (north of Little Italy) office space, my architecture firm is moving. I’ve spent so many late nights and sometimes weekends working here. The natural light is amazing and the space in general is an ideal environment for a creative office. It’s a shame that even in this economic recession, landlords in NYC are raising the rent to levels that smaller offices can’t afford to re-sign their leases.

Our new office space is half the size with twice as many people occupying it. To afford rent in a downtown Manhattan area, we’re having to sublease desk space. Every square foot has a dollar amount attached to it. People are complaining about how much space they will have. For me that means no more room for spare bike parts, boxes, frames and indoor bike parking. Makes it hard to enjoy your day.