Joe “My Name Isn’t Couch” Mckeag showed up prepared for the Ride & Style with an arsenal of huge tricks. His truckdriver was the first one I’ve seen landed in a fixed gear competition, and his 540 was a real showstopper. He is easily one of the best young riders out there, and will surely be a favorite to watch in future competitions.
You gotta hand it to Josh Boothby, he sure is a showman. He got the crowd hyped and fed off their energy the whole day through. His backflips were dialed and they solidified his win despite loads of stiff competition. Congrats Boothby!
Tyler took second at the Red Bull Ride & Style event and I am super stoked for him considering the intense level of competition that he faced. Tyler’s pedal feeble to 180 bar was, without a doubt, one of the most exciting tricks of the day. It is especially awesome if you know that it was the very first time that he had attempted the trick, let alone land it first try! Great work Tyler!
Josh was taking a ton of photos throughout the night. He sent them my way to post up.




Check the whole set over at the Future Tense flickr group.
JD has joined the SE bikes ranks and is shredding on the Showtime frame. Good to see this dude is getting some coverage cause he kills it.
more at RecFail
Some of the original Fast Friday homies were out for Kia’s birthday a few weeks ago. Before I blacked out I made someone take a picture of us. Brings back quite the flood of memories with this bunch. Jon Quon (pictured left) sent me a link to his photostream from December of 2006, which might have been one of the first Fast Friday events altogether.
Chris Clappé and I were riding this new spot that he found when lurkin‘. After I filmed some clips of him, he snagged up my camera and grabbed these shots. What you can’t really gather from the photos, is that the cement block teeters up and down when you hop on. So fun!

The Ninjacat himself Sol Smith for Spike parts. One of my favorite tricks!
photo by Greg Falski
Chrissie White is a excellent young photographer from the Northwest. We worked together on a style shoot for Moksha and the photos turned out so good that I asked her to shoot me for Fixed Mag issue 10. This is one of the photos from that shoot.
See her work here
If you can see your toes through your shoes…
Edit: Enter the ZLOG facebook Ghost Foot contest by posting a pic of your ghost foot or otherwise well-worn shoes on the ZLOG facebook page and the best one will get a Swag bag filled with stickers, unreleased tees, vader shades and other goods that will make your friends jealous. All you have to do is ‘like’ the page and post the pic. I will choose the winner on Friday.
I saw this manifest from the sixpack alleycat which took place in Puerto Rico and I had to share.
via PRfixed
Corey San Agustin is in Austin, Texas because he got sick of that awful weather in Long Beach. Matt, Zane and Gus should be following suit. Prolly promises a “slew” of coverage. So keep an eye on the bearded viking for more. Hopefully we will see some video too cause Corey shreds.
Caught this pic over at Stuttgart fixed. A fender could’ve come in handy, but a muddy skunk stripe is a good look.

Master of the dark arts.
Wolfdrawn
I have added a new bunch of photos up on my Flickr site. Here are just a few.
Fixie whip locked up in Venice, Beach.
Summer Fix 2011 hosted by L.A. Brakeless. I was amazed by the amount of youngsters eager to display their freestyle moves. I will post the photo up at the ZLOG facebook page, go tag your friends.
This is what my work space looks like with freshly hung art.

Our guy JRUFF beasting over a rail in the Central District.
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The whole crew has been working hard helping Tyler film for this and I am so stoked to see the fruits of all his labor. Here is a couple behind the scenes shots I have been sitting on. The related quick clip can be found here.
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