Self Bike Check: The Parakino (Year 2)
I know! I’m a bit late! But since many of you requested it, here is an update on the state of my daily a.k.a. the Fire Parallax a.k.a. the Parakino, 2 years later…
Bike Check: Michelle’s Look Madison 875
Alright, let's get started! A huge light leak... Check. At the worst possible place...Akso check… Michelle, I'm so sorry, film can sometimes be finicky... Weird visual artifacts aside…
Bike Check: Teru‘s Custom Cannondale Track
What’s your favorite Ctrack color? Glacier Blue? Icelandic green? What about “Right-in-your-face Pink”?Last year I stumbled upon the brightest Ctrack of them all…
Bike Check: Taiga’s Brooklyn Gangsta V4
Time for another bike-check of someone you might have already seen on SSS. Where? Right here! Taiga is a graduate of the Tokyo Frame Building School and worked for Cherubim…
Bike Check: Kang’s Quokka MudSlayer
Thinking back about it, I think I’ve been following the “Kang Adventure” from day 0. From his early training at Cyfac to his first Quokka Cycles prototype, and now one of the final bikes that was missing from his lineup…
Bike Check: Yuki’s Carbon Kalavinka
During CMWC this year, I had the opportunity to meet MANY very cool people, most of them wielding equally awesome bikes. And, on the hunt for another bike-check…
Bike Check: Sean’s Mash Steel
During Slow Burnin’ Man, I met up with Sean a.k.a. @slowleak. Well known member of the Mash Crew, I’ve been meaning to shoot one of his bikes for years now.
Bike Check: Amelia’s Titanium Weis
When you go to an event as big as “The Great Alleycat of London”, you know that you’ll find some gems between the hundreds of bikes present during this wild weekend.
Bike Check: Philipp’s Tracklo-Orlowski
Earlier this year, I had the pleasure to finally meet with Philipp during the RadRace weekend in Berlin. I feel it’s important to say that Philipp has been one of the very first supporters of our content…
Bike Check: Patrick’s Mash AC2
San Francisco can be very “moody”. You start a ride with bright sunshine and end it in the middle of the fog. But that’s when I also understood why the “Hi-Vis” paint job…
Bike Check: Dima’s Elin
There are some people that you know from their online presence, you’ve seen their life through social media, but because of distance or the language barrier you never really thought that meeting them would be a real thing…
Bike Check: Nobu’s Fixed Doppo Racer
There is something special about “creating” a fixed gear frame out of anything that wasn’t deign to be one in the first place. In this particular case, we’re looking at a Doppo Racer by Simworks…
Self-Bike Check: Brooklyn Gangsta V1 No421
I't’s been a while since I haven’t done a proper self bike check… Even more so after selling a few of my bikes. But on my way to bike-minimalism…
Bike Check: Sam’s Tomo
Attending one of the biggest fixed gear event this year, I knew I was going to experience some serious eye-candy, and because I’m a nice person, I’m willing to share that with you all. How cool right?
Bike Check: Tommy’s Mash Lava
You’ve already seen a couple of shots of my Mash Lava on this blog and I can’t lie by telling you that, this paint job, might be one of my favorite of the entire Mash lineup. But what you haven’t seen yet is the bike that made me want one. ..
Bike Check: Soma’s Kalavinka
Kalavinka has to be one of the most prestigious name in the NJS world. A legendary frame builder based in Tokyo, who created bikes for the highest ranks of Keirin. So was in Tokyo a year ago, I had the conviction to place an order…
Bike Check: Keisuke’s Mash Work
Here is another bike check from the far east, and definitely not the last. Today we’re taking a look at Keisuke’s Mash Work and how this man and I have very similar tastes in pretty much everything…
Bike Check: Teddy’s Custom Weis ISP
Here it is! Another album shot by Kang on his trip to New York last year. And as much as I love to stare at the scans he sent me, I kinda wish I was there in person to see the real thing…
Bike Check: Christian’s Parallax
Whenever I shoot film in Paris, I always end up with a grainy, dirty style for some reason. It’s probably why I only shoot black and white while in the French capital, but I had to make an exception this time…
Bike Check: Takuho’s KHS Aero Track
Yes, two bike-check in one month, and another KHS on top of that! A few weeks ago, we took a look at Maki’s KHS and ended up on a picture of her and her husband, both rocking their True Tember KHS Aero Track