My Yay Area friend Alex at Homeroom makes the kind of gear you see on dudes from ‘Ye on down the line, and he’s blowing out his summer stock. Although being based in SF, isn’t the summer colder than the winter, according to Mark Twain? So is he selling SF summer clothes, aka winter clothes?

John Igei is pro skater for Western Edition that kills it just as hard on a bike. When did you decide to take the brakes off? Spring ’04. I never had a track bike with brakes.

.the_cool_kids_and_Society_Original_Products .:. from Noa Christofer on Vimeo. Listen to “Black Mags.”

Mike Tran is a graphic artist for Street Corner Distribution (City, Venture, Hubba). When did you start riding without brakes? I always had a bike in the city for transportation, but when a friend came through with his track bike about four or five years ago, I had to have one, too. I put together [...]

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 [...]

  Describe your first bike. Huffy Pro Thunder, red on white. Describe your current bike. 24 inches strong.

Hello my name is… Brendt Barbur. Aka… Brother Brendt. I was raised in… The land where everyone is your best friend, but the next time you meet them they forget your name, which is strange because they just told you their whole life story. Northern California is so beautiful, but ever since I moved to [...]