These are some of the people who helped bring you Urban Velo #31. Check out their websites and let them know you like their work.
Allison Williams – www.allison-williams.com
Michelle Spitz – www.2pedalsphotography.com
Martha Williams – bikefancy.blogspot.com
Mikey Wally – www.mikeywally.com
Andy Singer – www.andysinger.com
Brad Quartuccio – www.randomprecisionphoto.com
Jeff Guerrero – flickr.com/urbanjeff
Humans been aware of head injury risk for some time, as there is evidence of helmets in wartime dating back some three millenia. Combat helmets were common up until widespread firearms, largely fading from use as weaponry rendered them useless but for ornamentation until advances in World War II. Bicycle crash helmets of some form have been around since the days of the ordinary, first with the common pith helmets of the day and then moving towards arrangements of padded leather strips, evolving into the hairnet helmets that lasted into the 1970’s. Bicycle helmets have come a long way since, with a myriad of choices available today.
Friday, 9 pm, Jalan Sudirman, Yogyakarta, Central Java—a crew of kids on fixed gear bikes pull down the main drag. Among them is a girl sporting a chilbab (Indonesian for headscarf), skinny jeans and a bright yellow bike emblazoned with the Playboy Bunny.
Pedaling down Halsted Street into Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, I smell the unmistakable aroma of Harold’s Chicken as I pass an outpost of the South Side chain whose logo features a chef chasing a rooster with a hatchet. After an SUV speeds by me blasting hip-hop, I pull up to John’s Hardware and Bicycle Shop and admire the old-fashioned painted sign, featuring John Stallworth’s smiling, bearded face and his no-nonsense slogan, “If we don’t have it you don’t need it.”
At 2:22 am on March 18 the streets of L.A. glistened slick and wet as I arrived at the start of the Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race. It was a 45-degree morning, but it was hard to be cold as my eyes grew wider to take in the sight of the hundreds of bikes and bodies filling the intersection of Vermont and Sunset outside Tang’s Donut.
Contents Include: Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race, Can Bike Shop Deserts Bloom on Chicago’s South Side?, Gallery: NAHBS 2012, Jogja Bikes Once More, Helmet Tech, Product Reviews and News, and I Love Riding in the City. Download it for free, or order a printed copy online.
Here’s a look at some of the I Love Riding in the City contributors for issue #31.
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Rim replacement is a fairly common repair, and well within reach of the competent mechanic that has yet to perform a ground-up wheel build. If you can true a wheel, you can replace a rim. Brakes pads can slowly wear through the sidewall over the miles, a sharp edged pothole can badly ding the edge, or an old fashioned wreck can leave you with a rim bent beyond truing. Assuming the wheel isn’t full-on taco’d with bent spokes and the nipples aren’t corroded beyond turning, in most cases the spokes and nipples themselves are perfectly fine to reuse. With an identical or very similar rim you can move the spokes over one-by-one preserving the lacing pattern and spoke head angle, and taking much of the mystery out of a wheel build.
Few framebuilders offer such an intoxicating blend of history and modernity as Giovanni Pelizzoli. Famed the world since the 1970’s for his Ciöcc road bikes, the Italian is now delighting a new breed of cyclists with his own Pelizzoli frames—all of which are hand-built in his workshop.
It’s hard to put into words what makes cycling in Los Angeles so special, so different. It’s not just because the city is so big, or because it’s mostly flat (there are still lots of hills to ride), or because we’re blessed with what could be considered a perpetual summer (rain is rare and, quite frankly, unacceptable).
What really makes riding in L.A. something truly special may be that it takes a certain amount of fearlessness to contend with the overwhelming car culture, and some real dedication to span the distances between the edges of the 500-square miles that are encompassed in this mega-opolis. Cycling in L.A. demands toughness, but it also requires that you can laugh off the honking and harassment—because they come every day—and can have fun no matter who tries to run you off the road.
These are some of the people who helped bring you Urban Velo #30. Check out their websites and let them know you like their work.
Amy Bolger – www.amybolger.com
Alex Hansen – wegetweird.tumblr.com
Cameron Nunez – www.cameronnunez.com
Mikey Wally – www.mikeywally.com
Kurt Boone – www.kurtboonebooks.com
Greg Ugalde – www.gregugalde.com
Gustav Hoiland – www.gustavhoiland.com
Andy Singer – www.andysinger.com
Brad Quartuccio – www.randomprecisionphoto.com
Jeff Guerrero – flickr.com/urbanjeff
Contents Include: Glitter and Grime LA Bike Life, Greg Ugalde NYC Artist and Bike Messenger, Shanghai Photo Gallery, Post Apocalpyse Twin Cities, Pelizzoli A Living Legend, Bike Graveyards, Rim Replacement, Product Reviews and News, and I Love Riding in the City. Download it for free, or order a printed copy online.
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