Music City Fixed Gear

Turning Tricks 20 - Nashville

2010-01-18T21:24:00.001-08:00

Turning Tricks - 20 - Nashville2009 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Urban Velo #17

2009-12-29T10:58:00.001-08:00

Urban Velo - I Love Riding in the City

2009-12-28T10:32:00.001-08:00

Look for me (Devan) in the newest issue (issue #17) of Urban Velo.

Turning Tricks 19

2009-12-26T11:51:00.001-08:00

Chris Layda came to Nashville and we had a full day of great riding. Here's his latest turning tricks video which was filmed on that day.

Turning Tricks - Episode 19 - Dirty Tricks Ride from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Trick Sesh

2009-12-15T12:45:00.001-08:00

Chris Layda (who's from TN) is coming to town and wants to ride so...

Music City Cycling

2009-12-13T18:46:00.001-08:00

Keith, Candice, and I (Devan) started a much needed Nashville bicycle forum: Music City Cycling. This will be a great way to network with other riders, find out about rides, post rides, procrastinate, etc.

Nashville Bike Day - Murfreesboro Bike Nite

2009-12-08T19:51:00.001-08:00

Two Rides in One!
First Ride (Nashville) -
The Murfreesboro girls are going to come down for the afternoon to ride with us! We'll meet up at 2:00 at the red bench in Hillsboro Village. I think we'll do a casual ride downtown, to the Shelby Bottoms Greenway, and ride to the Cumberland Bridge and back. Then we'll head over to Centennial Park to hang out and trick around. After that we can all go to fido, cafe coco, bongo, or wherever to get some food.

Second Ride (Murfreesboro) -
We're going to carpool to Murfreesboro for bike nite! A lot of people come out to this ride and it'll be a lot of fun and a great way to meet new people. I believe it starts around 9:00-9:20. Let's meet up in the Fido parking lot at 8:00 and try to head out by 8:15. I have room for 3 people in my car. Who else can drive if we have more people than that decide to come to Murfreesboro?

Halcyon Bike Birthdaycat

2009-11-24T18:57:00.001-08:00

Halcyon is hosting an alleycat to celebrate their first birthday!

Poster designed by Keith

Music City Street Sprints

2009-11-09T10:11:00.001-08:00

Hosted by Skumlife, Poster by Keith Gallagher

Scaredy Cat Results + My New Wheel Day

2009-11-01T23:15:00.000-08:00

The Scaredy Cat went great! We had an amazing turnout. Special thanks to Halcyon for getting all the sponsors and prizes and every one else for getting the race set up (2W1C for hosting, Keith for designing the poster, Mark for getting the spoke cards printed and laminated, and of course Skumlife and Cupcranks for coming out to race!).

The results are as follows:
Guys -
1. Richard
2. Sam
3. Dave

Girls -
1. Devan
2. Skye
3. Candice

On another note, I also just had a new wheel day (well, I've technically had the wheel for two months, but I finally paid it off and put it on).

West to Percy

2009-10-29T13:30:00.001-07:00

West Nashville to Percy Priest Dam
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Fast az Fuck Ride!

2009-10-29T13:26:00.001-07:00

Poster designed by Keith

THIS IS NOT A CASUAL RIDE! We will be keeping a fast pace for approximately 40 miles. This is a no-wait, every man for themselves ride (i.e. if you fall behind, no one is going to stop and wait up for you, you will be on your own). So if you come, be sure to bring your own tools, tubes, and a pump or CO2 cartridge because if you get a flat, there may not be any one there to help you out. Make sure to bring lots of water and be ready to push yourself! The Route is as follows:

Starting at Centennial Park
Riding out at 1:30pm
Heading North on 28th past TSU to Ted Rhodes Park
Enter the Metrocenter Greenway
Take the Greenway Downtown to the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge
Over the bridge to East Nashville to Shelby Park
Take the Shelby Bottoms Greenway to Two Rivers Park via Cumberland Ped. Bridge
Follow the Greenway to the Percy Priest Dam
Head back the same way
End at the Shelby Street Ped. Bridge
Participants receive Skumlife gold chain status!

Cupcranks Free Cupcake Ride III

2009-10-29T13:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's Cupcake Ride was a lot of fun as always. Gigi's Cupcakes gave us amazingly delicious and free cupcakes, milk and water (thank you!). We rode from Hillsboro Village to Gigi's for our cupcakes. After getting sick, in the most awesome way, from all the sugar, we rode to Legislative Plaza to trick around, hang out, and take some pictures. After getting kicked off out of Legislative (apparently those stone squares are 15,000 each), we rode over to the courthouse for some more fun riding and playing in the fountains. It was the most perfect fall day with a gorgeous sunset. You can find more pictures here.

Turning Tricks Week 12

2009-10-29T13:24:00.001-07:00

Turning Tricks – Week 12 - October 2009 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Haunted Ride to the Eastside

2009-10-29T13:23:00.001-07:00

Anthony Cozzi - "Dead Wheelie"

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8:00pm
The Villager Tavern
1719 21st Ave S

Meet up in the Village. If you get there early, get a seat at the Villager Tavern. At 8:30 we ride to the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge for refreshments. Then whenever we feel like it we will make our way to the Devil's Dungeon Haunted House. After we will tell ghost stories and have some more refreshments on the Shelby Street Bridge.

Haunted House Admission - $12

i will be bringing $1 off coupons for everyone or you can print your own.

If you want just come and ride and hang at the bridge.
Basically; cheap beer, good times, halloween fun, riding bikes = Skumlife

Bring party favors, and lets scare the shit out of Nashville. Yey!

Nashville Scaredy Cat 2009

2009-10-29T13:22:00.004-07:00

(CLICK THE PICTURE FOR THE FB EVENT PAGE)
Hosted by 2wheels1crank, Halcyon, Skumlife, and Cupcranks
The Scaredy Cat Halloween Alley Cat race with sponsored prizes from
surly - http://www.surlybikes.com/
orgin 8 - http://www.origin-8.com/
qbp - http://www.qbp.com/
keirin culture - http://www.keirinculture.com/
Velocity - http://www.velocityusa.com/

Sign up and Registration at 2 p.m. at Centenial Park
There will be both a Guys and Girls bracket.

Turning Tricks Week 11

2009-10-29T13:22:00.003-07:00

Turning Tricks – Week 11 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Google Maps, The "Bike There" Option, and You.

2009-10-29T13:22:00.001-07:00

For those of you who missed the recent post on this. Google has been widespread with new mapping vehicles (Street View Trike). Good for Google, but better for us. Not only is Google showing the international cycling community some serious love, they are updating the accessibility of their entire mapping system. Can someone say, "Upgrade!"? Google is in the process of mapping areas which cannot be reached by car. They are also asking the public to help. Google is currently (until an Oct 28th cutoff date) accepting suggestions of where to send the SVT (Street View Trike). Let's do what we can and get the Middle Tennessee Greenways, The Four Natchez Trails, and Local Park trails on the list. This not only will help us get Nashville and the Greater Nashville area more accessible to cyclists unfamiliar with the area, but also (I think) provide us with an awesome "bike there" option which might (fingers crossed) take into account elevation. This will add a fourth option to "the quickest route" in addition to walking (shortest distance), fastest w/highways, and fastest w/out highways. I don't know about you but i personally would like to know if I'm going the right way w/out having to ask Whit or Mike Crouch. So let's get on the horn. Contact Google and suggest locations for the SVT to ride and document (most importantly the Greenways). Let's make Nashville, Tennessee, America, and the world a better place to cycle. Thanks.

Don't Steal Bikes, Bro!

2009-10-29T13:21:00.003-07:00

MurFreesboro Bike Night

2009-10-29T13:21:00.001-07:00

MFBN IV from Natalie Newberry on Vimeo.

Other wise known as Mother Fucking Bike Night. The bicyclists of Murfreesboro gather to ride their second favorite form of transportation around town every Thursday night (weather permitting). While milkshakes and slushies aren't exactly my thing, we decided to pack up the SUV and make a trip out to the "Boro" to hang with the kids and see what the fuss was all about. The first trip was exciting enough. High points included being told that I needed to pick up speed to get up a hill that I then rode up with no hands (look ma!), tricking Devan into thinking that the town square was the same one from Back to the Future, and the foot down comp (if only they knew we had to wear teflon vests in Nashville to play).

After getting the feeling that this ride was a little like a G-rated version of Nashville Critical Mass, we decided to spice things up a bit and throw Skumlife into the mix. The next Thursday we returned with some Skumlife All-stars; we showed up fashionably late and ran out or beer by the time we got there. Unfortunately, I had a bruised/possibly broken rib (from the previous weekend) which took me out of contention for the foot down competition (Ryan lost by "trying" to do a 180 in the final). At one point, I was in back and noticed a traffic jam at the CircleK just past "Clean" Jim's. Of course Ed had called for a beer pit stop less than a mile into the ride and threw the sheep into a "follow the leader" dilemma that left them in seizure for a minute or so (for future reference, Murfreesboro, keep going! You're not fast! We will catch up). Highlights included Ed talking to the Murfreesboro police with one hand on a beer under his shirt, hearing that people had heard that Skumlife rides around with shotguns, ski-masks, and steals bikes at gun point (it's shotguns with banana clips btw), an impromptu stop at the Dodge Store for the best chicken in the world, and a little bit of loving on the floor during a bad ass performance by the The Prophet Nathan.

All in all, you make your night what you want it to be. If you live in Murfreesboro, definitely book your Thursday nights for this ride, but remember Thursday night isn't the only night to ride bikes. If you live in Nashville, I seriously doubt it's worth taking two hours of driving time and as much gas as I use weekly to do something that we already do everyday (with more excitement) here. I don't want you to take my word for it; I want you to try it out for yourself. If you want to waste a couple of hours and money driving, feel like you are ruining someone's night by having a good time, ride at moderate speed (no faster!), then this one is for you. They meet up every Thursday at 9pm on MTSU campus at the Quad (In front of the Library). As for me, every night in Nashville is Mother Fucking Bike Night!

PS. I love the real Boro riders (you know who you are). Do your thing. Also, thanks to Natalie (our new Murfreesboro corespondent) for the vid. She will be hooking it up on the blog from now on (as far as current events in Murfreesboro are concerned).

Swansea Bookworm Alleycat - Oct 3rd 2009

2009-10-29T13:20:00.003-07:00

Swansea Bookworm Alleycat 03.10.09 HD 720p from progressive media on Vimeo.

Turning Tricks Week 10

2009-10-29T13:20:00.001-07:00

Turning Tricks - Week 10 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Google Announces Plan for “Bike There” Option

2009-10-29T13:19:00.004-07:00

In a post on the Google Earth and Maps team blog, the ubiquitous company revealed plans to add the long awaited “Bike There” option to their maps.

They say that by integrating this [new] information, and working with specialized data sources like the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Boundaries and the US Geological Survey’s National Hydrography Dataset, we’ve been able to expand and improve features in our maps like parks and water bodies.

Read more at www.Bike-PGH.org.

From Urban Velo

Please Be Careful.

2009-10-29T13:19:00.003-07:00

A photograph of seven year old Kylie Bruehler. She is at a funeral service to bury her parents, both of whom were killed last week when a driver veered onto the shoulder and drove his pickup truck into them as they were riding together on a tandem. “Investigators say there are no charges on the driver. They believe this was an accident and that somehow the driver lost control of his truck.” More...

Everyone be safe. Spread bicycle awareness.

Bianchi Super Pista @ Interbike

2009-10-29T13:19:00.001-07:00

I don't want this. I have to have it!

Dear Santa,

Don't fuck this up for me.

Ronald

Rachel's Bike

2009-10-29T13:17:00.002-07:00

Rachel's bike, originally uploaded by art.arcinas1.

Thanks, Art. I can see Sofia lurking around in the back.

CMWC 2009 Tokyo Skid Comp

2009-10-29T13:17:00.001-07:00

Dayout

2009-10-29T13:16:00.001-07:00

DAYOUT from KRANK on Vimeo.

Jesus, Taylor!

2009-10-29T13:14:00.000-07:00

Where the Wild Things Ride

2009-10-29T10:53:00.001-07:00

Yesterday's Where the Wild Things Ride was a definite success! We all met up at Halcyon, rode downtown to the Shelby Street Bridge, and crossed the river over to the Greenway. After a stop for some water at the Nature Center we rode through the Greenway to Opry Mills, ate some delicious lunch, and then watched Where the Wild Things Are on IMAX. We had a great turnout, and the ride ended up being a lot more fun than I had even anticipated. More pictures can be found here on Keef's Flickr.

My Bike is Better Than Your Bike

2009-10-29T10:16:00.000-07:00

These shirts are so awesome (mine is already on it's way), albeit a bit snobby, but it's all in good fun if you actually have a sense of humor. You can find them on the Candy Cranks blog, which is a blog written by girl riders all over the world. Speaking of, I've recently become an author on Candy Cranks myself, and will be posting primarily on Nashville happenings and such as well as the Cupcranks Cupcake rides. So I would definitely recommend checking their site out (especially if you're a girl who rides or wants to get into riding). I'm really excited to get to be a part of this!

Best of Nashville 2009

2009-10-29T10:14:00.004-07:00

If you haven't heard the exciting news yet, The Nashville Scene Best of Nashville 2009 Reader's Poll voted Halcyon Bike Shop the best bicycle shop in Nashville! Obviously we could not agree more with the outcome. We love you guys (Elise, Andrew, Seff, Daniel, Stephannie)! Not to mention, the editors chose Elise as Best Ideals in Practice.

We Fun

2009-10-29T10:14:00.003-07:00

Here's a video April made early on in the summer when a bunch of us got together and watched We Fun at Halcyon. One of many amazing summer riding nights. Dear summer, please come back? Really though, let's get stoked for some fall riding! Thanks, Ape.

Tennessee Bike Laws

2009-10-29T10:14:00.001-07:00

Seriously, learn this shit.

Free Cupcake Ride

2009-10-29T10:13:00.002-07:00

LV Fixed

2009-10-29T10:13:00.001-07:00

Here are some really awesome videos my friend Aaron made earlier this year of some Vegas riding. Pretty cool cinematography in my opinion.

Where the Wild Things Ride

2009-10-28T22:49:00.000-07:00

Where the Wild Things Ride, originally uploaded by president raygun.

Vittoria Randonneur

2009-10-28T22:44:00.000-07:00

MASH SF x Vittoria Randonneur 700x23c

'The Vittoria Randonneur apparently is the best tire that the mashers have found for standing up to that kind of abuse, and they wear them right down to the pink puncture-resistant belt. However, many of the bikes they use won’t fit a 25mm tire, so Vittoria is making the Randonneur, at Mashsf.com’s request, in a 700 X 23mm size.'
From Velonews.

Summer/Fall Edit

2009-10-28T22:35:00.000-07:00

Summer/Fall Edit from Mike Dinh on Vimeo.

Turning Tricks 9

2009-10-28T22:33:00.000-07:00

Turning Tricks - Week 9 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

The Art Crawl

2009-10-28T22:30:00.000-07:00

Art Crawl Ride Set, originally uploaded by president raygun.

Every first Saturday of the month there is an Art Crawl at the Arcade downtown in Nashville, and (you guessed it) we ride. It's happening this Saturday. Meet the Skumlife crew at the Villager Tavern in Hillsboro Village for a warm up session (lol) and around 8pm we hit the streets. The ride doesn't stop after the Art Crawl either. We will hit up the East side (Dino's) for some drinking and foods, then to CvK@12th&Porter to party it up. If you ride, you have got to come check this one out. One of my favorite rides. See you there

Bootleg Sessions

2009-10-28T22:28:00.001-07:00

Bootleg Sessions from John Prolly on Vimeo.

Venice High Trick Session

2009-10-28T22:25:00.001-07:00

Holy Shit! The guy w/ the white rims does some legit bar spins in this vid. Not to mention none of these guys look sketchy doing these at all. Style points = yes!

sometimes we ride bikes at venice high from Joey on Vimeo.

Not. A Summer Edit

2009-10-28T22:22:00.001-07:00

not. a summer edit. from Kris *lockedcog* on Vimeo.

Crumb Snatching

2009-10-28T22:20:00.001-07:00

Crumb Snatching from Terry B on Vimeo.

George & Congo

2009-10-28T22:18:00.000-07:00

George and Congo from Beaver on Vimeo.

To Live & Ride In L.A.

2009-10-28T22:11:00.000-07:00

To Live & Ride In L.A. [Teaser A] from TRAFIK on Vimeo.

Nashville Bike Map

2009-10-28T22:05:00.000-07:00

Yesterday's Greenway ride had me checking out the Music City Moves web site, and i came across this map. Granted, most of us don't give a f*ck about a bike lane, but it thought it would still be a good post.

Turning Tricks 8

2009-10-28T22:00:00.000-07:00