While we were cutting timbers (literally) last night here in Boston, Monstertrack Goldsprints went down in NYC. Prolly grabbed a quick video of a 14.92s, 250m sprint, which is completely insane! We had to make a huge sacrifice and stick it out in Boston to get a lot of construction finished up, but a crew of our friends are in attendance – oh the things we’ve had to do for this shop! Enjoy:
Monster Track X Goldspints from John Prolly on Vimeo.
“It’s the small touches at the show that make the biggest bang.” – Brad @ UrbanVelo
Marty is showing off some amazing work at NAHBS this year. Now that Geekhouse has began expanding, Marty has started a subtle departure from his well known Rock City frame, into things like this (above) track frame. He is beginning to show a high level of precision and detailing, especially with refined dropout detailing and new integrated chain-tensioners. Its great to see that the last minute builds we helped crank out are getting Marty the attention his work deserves.
Oh, and you might just see a few of the NAHBS builds hanging in the shop…
Zoltán Kecskeméti, a Budapest-basest programmer and designer, made this video a few weeks back:
I saw this and immediately checked Orbitz for one-way airfare to Hungary. Before I bought my ticket though, I was (thankfully) alerted to the fact that the gigantic bicycle sculpture shown pedaling upstream the Danube is purely conceptual as of yet- Kecskeméti had expertly edited his ideas into simple shots of the river.
Hungary, however, is somewhat bicycle-crazy. Budapest has hundreds of thousands of cyclists for whom bikes are their daily transport, their recreation through the crowded capital, and a fount of collective identity and power. Budapest Critical mass regularly draws tens of thousand of riders- here a video of last year’s Earth Day ride. 80,000 cyclists attended!
As you can then imagine, the response to the inventor’s kinetic river sculpture has been overwhelming. What started as an exercise in trick video editing has taken on life, and citizens of Budapest are campaigning to have the sculpture designed and built in earnest. I’ve decided to delay my trip to Pannonia for a bit, but I’ll keep you all up to date- OPEN Budapest, anyone?
Thanks to Erin for sending this our way!
Like fine wine, great things take time. One of our favorite fellows, Frank The Butcher, just announced the launch of his new blog & podcast, The Butcher’s Block. If you need his background, I wrote a piece on Frank a while back after he (& Paul Mighty) took the Weekly Commute #4 to another level. And if you haven’t loaded up your iPod, download the mix here.
Expect TBB to be a great continuation of The WeeklyDrop, plus a little more hip-hop in the mix. If the two words, hip & hop, make you pause, please don’t let them. I can’t say it better than Frank did, so I’ll quote, “Don’t let the ‘Hip-Hop’ turn you off. I understand the current state of the genre and we are here to showcase an interesting combination of songs, early samples and breaks – always putting you on to something new or reminding you of something great.“ We are looking forward to what you’ve got to say Frank.
If this doesn’t make your jaw drop, it must be wired to your skull. Completely insane! Good looks to our filming guru Steve at Quarter Productions (now located in Brooklyn) for sending this over:
Video found at PinkBike.
Tamika over at Vimby let us know that the Bicycle Film Festival Trailer was ready to share. Last years was pretty great, however I must say that the Boston turn-out was a little less than expected! We’ll do what we can this year to make sure more and more of you get out and watch some great films. If you want to submit, you’ve got until the extended March 7th date. Enjoy:
*EDIT: THIS IS THE 2008 BFF TRAILER, NOT THE 2009. THE 2009 TRAILER WILL BE DROPPING SHORTLY
