When I first started cycling (or skating, for that matter), I walked around the shops like a kid in a toy store, just studying all the gear. In the bike shops, one product that utterly confused me for a while was chamois cream. What the hell is it, and what does it have to [...]
Bikes
When you hear the word scooter, it generally conjures unflattering images of plastic nerd cruisers. (I won’t start on white scooters, which look like a number two in progress.) Basically, the scooter image is not very cool at all. More pics after the jump..
Describe your very first bike. It was a nasty, rusty piece of shit…a Schwinn, I think. I never had a dope bike when I was a kid, so now that I’m old and can’t afford a Porsche, I build BMXs.
Describe your very first bike. I really can’t remember because my Alzheimer’s has been kicking in. But I think it was a green Big Wheel, probably made by Huffy.
Describe your current bike, in detail, like you’re narrating a bike porno. Oh, the CSBC Patriot? It was liberated from Tony awhile back. Actually, I traded him for it in exchange for a complete Allen key set, some Bud Light tall cans and a handsome lamp from Ikea. Quite the bargain. The Patriot is an [...]
“We take our jokes seriously,” says Alex Gvojic of the Peddy Cash moped gang. We’re standing in Chicago’s Warbux Mopeds storefront, staring at his appropriately named “Peddy Kruger,” in the style of the villain from A Nightmare on Elm Street—complete with a metal-clawed leather glove resting on the headlamp and a striped army [...]
When I first got into track bikes, I was really into the tricks. As I got more comfortable on the bike, I learned how to appreciate their functionality on the street and ultimately decided to save the tricks for my skateboard. Through it all, the one “track bike trick” that still retains its utility is [...]
Describe your current bike. It was given to me by a friend. His dad rides fixed gears and this must have been his first. It’s a conversion and a shitty one at that (suicide hub!). I popped the lock ring the first week I had it. Due to a number of financial reasons, I [...]
Describe your very first bike. It was a Red Huffy I got from Santa Claus when I was five years old. I sat on that thing outside my house for hours until my dad got home from work so he could teach me how to ride it. After he got home I fully ate shit and [...]
Describe your first bike. I got my first bike in the fourth grade in like 1992. It was a chrome Robinson SST 20”. I went to my parents’ house two years ago to grab the bike out of their garage; turns out my dad sold it at a flea market for like 40 bucks. Never [...]
