Berrywise meet..

sup guys! welps.. berrywise meet was a SUCCESS!!! WHAT??!!! HOw? with all that rain pouring.. it was like a monsoon outside!!! omg.. but sall good.. all the diehard automobile enthusiasts came out and there was a crowd all day and night long just chillen, conversating, eating BBQ at Kellers, eating Yogurt and having Boba Tea! Oh also thanks to DJ sureshot for Spinning music all day long and keeping the party going.. hehe.. it was good times and despite the rain there was nothing but good attitudes and good times.. I shot some video so look out for an edit coming soon.. also here are some pics i jacked from the Simply Clean forums and the V2 Labs!!.. =)

NEW BICYCLE!!!

ok.. so last week i got my NEW NAGASAWA FRAME!!! whoot whoot!!! and here it is

Look at that crazy tight fitment!! i love it!!

showin that aggressive street style on a track bike
you can see the tight geometry.. alot better for sprinting an just going fast.. =)

So i got this thing and first day i got it, had ace metric build it up for me with my old components.. i'd love to have new parts, but i'm trying to chill on the spending for a while.. =p the next day i rode 40 miles around orlando, and the day after that i did it again!! another 40 miles... on friday i decided to ride over to ucf have some lunch and just chill around the campus on the new bike.. it was such a nice day! i been detailing the bike... wiping it down with plush microfibers almost every night.. haha i LOVE this frame!!! omg.. but yea.. hopefully i'll have some legit photos of this thing soon... Mike from acemetric said he wanted my bike to be one of the bikes in the ace metric photoshoot, so i'm excited about that also.. =)

in other news.. i'm going to miami on march 31st! and chillen with flip mike and a couple girls from NYC that are coming into town till the 3rd of april.. =) gonna be good times at the beach and all that jazz.. =) thinkin about buying a bike rack for the s2000's trunk.. =) so that i can bring my bike along with me... should be nice.. ;)

Latest Flyer.. BERRYWISE MEET!!

This is for the berrywise meet coming up... drew and designed it a couple weeks ago... so come on out!! =)

An emotional time in a cyclist's life

Well.. as many of you know, I've been delving into the world of fixed gear cycling for the past half year or so... In this past 6 months i've experienced joy, a revitalized sense of peace, i feel more healthy, and i even got hit by a car... I've been improving my cycling abilities, and i feel comfortable riding from one side of orlando to the other, taking major roads and sharing them with huge motorized vehicles... Cycling has become a passion of mine, and for the past half a year this has been my weapon of choice when shredding through traffic.

Well yesterday was a big day for me. i sold my frame and fork... It's sad cuz it's my first bike, in perfectly good condition, taught me many things about my riding style etc, and was a TANK!! hehe i chose to sell it because it was more of a tricking fixed gear bicycle, used bmx tubing so it was heavy, but strong, and the geometry didn't fit my style of uhm... just getting places as fast as i can.. heh so yea.. i wasn't in a hurry to sell it and i got what i wanted for it, and now.. I'M STUCK WITHOUT A BIKE!!! ugh... it's only been a day but i feel naked without one.. yesterday i tried bidding on a black nagasawa(pretty much the most famous frame builder in japan) frame, and i lost.. cuz i fell asleep 15 minutes before the auction was finished.. =( so i been trying to get a hold of a company in japan that sells used frames, and i haven't been emailed back yet.. ugh.. kinda frustrating.. but i know i'll eventually get one.. in the meantime i'll have to drive to commute, and wait a little longer till i get that dream frame of mine.. well at least till this japanese company emails me back about information on buying the frames they have for sale.. hehe

MORE BIKE STUFF!!!

ok.. so today i was able to show off my bike to a potential buyer for my frame and fork... hmmm, well the meeting went well and the guy's gonna buy my frame and fork!! WHOOT!!!! but he doesn't have money till next week.. hmm... sall good.. i'm excited about getting my new frame after i sell this one though!! i know which one i'm gonna get.. it's gonna be a nagasawa frame!! WHAT!!! for some information about nagasawa built frames.. "Mr. Nagasawa built nine of Kiochi Nakano's ten world sprint championship frames!!" if you want a custom built frame by him, you can always order one.. too bad after you pay for the fitting etc.. you have to wait 7 years till he gets working on your frame.. it's because there are soo many people who want a frame built by him, yet he is only one person that hand makes all nagasawa frames... Here's the frame i found!!! and i'm gonna buy it.. even though it costs 3 times as much as my old frame.. =( which is actually a STEAL!! =)

Anyways... after that, my father and I rode our bikes to the NEW ACE METRIC STORE!!! It was really nice! and i'm looking forward to going there a whole lot more often for all my fixed gear needs.. =) my father ended up ordering some risers, for his risers!!! haha i thought it couldn't be done, but michael at ACE showed me otherwise and made my father happy.. =) and of course everyone was stunned by his amazing handlebar mustache.. haha but yea.. good day... and i'm really excited about having a really awesome japanese track racing frame.. =)

Simply Clean

The following is my latest finished video project. I shot a video of the Simply Clean car meet this past january... and i finally got around to finishing it up.. I've been so busy as of late that i kinda put it on the backburner for a while and i apologize to james for taking such a long time to finally get to finishing it... but yea.. last week i sat down and just grinded it out. I pretty much finished the entire video in less than a day, and every other day was spent tweaking a couple of things. I tried a couple new techniques as far as keyframing and using photoshop integrated with final cut pro and i think things turned out great, also the angles etc that i shot before hand prived a whole lot of good b-roll to use... =) But yesterday it went live on youtube, facebook, and vimeo!! so far the video has been very well recieved and has been posted in a couple blogs and even canibeat.com has it up on their site! =) so here it is.. the product my endless hours of work(actually just a couple hours)

SIMPLY CLEAN

I'm disgusted at Orlando Police Department...

saw this video from http://407fixedgear.com and it's pretty disturbing... it's an OPD cop harassing the critical mass bike riders, using their power to harass and make examples instead of upholding the law like they should be doing. Makes me angry that these police officers are violating our rights. makes me feel like we live in communist china or something.. ugh.. anyways... from what i hear.. the guy's suing the cop.. and i hope he gets fired or at least fined...