Matt's Cinelli Vigorelli

Save Your Generation

Blake Schwarzenbach, singer/songwriter behind awe-inspiring Jawbreaker and personal favorite Jets to Brazil, has a new project in the works. It's called the Thorns Of Life. Aaron Cometbus (Crimpshrine, Pinhead Gunpowder) joined the TOL camp behind the drums and Daniela Sea from The L Word is on bass! Sounds like quite the lineup.

They are currently recording a 7" in Brooklyn and plan on playing more house show on the East Coast. I'm keeping my ears open and fingers crossed that they venture over to the West. Hearing Blake sing live would be a check mark on my life-to-do-list!

Hats Off To The (Roy) Haper

the newest gem to my collection; it plays continuously.
Roy Harper- Stormcock

LA08

I almost forgot to mention LA. It had some unexpected twists of luck. Southern California in general has always been confusing and cluttered to me, but this was easily the funnest trip to LA yet. Spontaneous adventures have always been a key and essential part of my life.

We filled my trunk with track wheels and bags, but had to make room for our two shopping carts full of IKEA goodness.
Matt and I parked the car in Downtown LA, took out the bikes, tore up the streets, took some pics, ate some food, and ran into some friends.

We found an AA in Echo Park and ran into Nick, a very awesome merchandiser who was at our store a few months back. It was great to see him and he let us crash at the company apartment on Sunset Blvd.
We met some awesome riders at the Encino Velodrome and participated in the LAFixed Velodrome Day. The track was outside and the weather was close to perfect. It was definitely different from my past visits to velodromes; there was an instructor who conducted drills and provided useful, and at times sarcastic, tips for racing. Some fast kids...

change is good.

I woke up and texted my mother, who voted McCain, 'Change'. She replied, "Change is good."

happy halloween

TR476

I had hinted to AA to make a long sleeve V-Neck a few years back. Finally...and in Tri-Blend no less. Ohh fall, and all your layering-clothing goodness!!

MMJ Care Package.

My Morning Jacket canceled their Las Vegas date for their Evil Urges Tour last month. I was extremely upset about this. What made matter worse was Viva-Radio, an amazing internet radio program based out of NY- played in every American Apparel store, was doing a huge promotion for their upcoming tour and CD Release. After hearing about the news of their show cancellation, I emailed Neil from Viva and told him I was going to send back all the promotional items we were to display in our store.

I told him how excited I was to finally see My Morning Jacket and how disappointed I was to hear of their show cancellation. He replied shorty after, "Go ahead and send it to NY3 and we will work something out. Thanks!"

Last Friday, Brett and I were checking the store's mailbox and found a record box shaped packaged addressed: Attention: Ryan O'Keefe. I was completely overjoyed to find the box containing four, brand new My Morning Jacket LP's!!! There was no note and any e-mail prior to the package being delivered. Needless to say, I have been jamming on some sweet MMJ tunes for the past few days.

Not sure who was behind this, but THANK YOU...it made my month!

MS 150 Ride

Bike MS: Perini Building Company Las Vegas Gambler's Classic Ride 2008
November 8 & 9, 2008
165 Miles of Open Road Ahead

The MS Bike Ride provides an experience that tests your strength, your character, and challenges you to have more fun than you imagined. Two days, 165 miles!

I'm on the HOUSE OF COMMONS TEAM, with Brett, Kris, and Nick. That's our team so far, but we are always looking for more experienced riders to join! We are taking donations to help fight Multiple Sclerosis. If you donate even $5 it would help a great deal, and I promise to ride extra hard for you!

DONATE HERE

calm

Interbike Week is over. breathe.

All the training weeks prior paid off. The Vegas Drag Race was a massive success and there are so many people to thank. Top 10? well...maybe. I claimed if I got Top 5 I would be ecstatic. Your truly managed a respectable fourth place, and exceeded my own expectations! Matt managed to win second place, although he should have taken it all-if he only knew where to actual finish line was! Matt walked away with a Cinelli Vigorelli frame, a camera, and a bunch of schhwagg!

The Macaframa Premiere was insanity. Cyclist from SF, LA, Tokyo, etc. came out to watch the World Premiere of the newest fixed gear movie, that had well over two years of hype behind it. It was great to make new friends and see old ones. The movie was amazing, with great cinematography, insane riding, surreal HD Camera Angles, and a perfect soundtrack.

If I could have beeen two places at once, I still wouldn't have been able to go to all the places I wanted to go, and see all the people I wanted to see, and race all the races I wanted to race. It was completely overwhelming at times, and every year gets better!

Vegas was all over the place.

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MASH IN VEGAS

invisible bike

The blog-o-sphere is an interesting thing. Information travels so fast that: any news, is old news. It's been a great few weeks. The weather is turning to fall and my bike got some new shoes!

Matt is a mastermind behind that lense.
Invisible bike FTW!

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I'm back

The damage is done and everything is pretty much back to normal. I'm on the right track. Fall is upon us and I'm back in the Boys of Summer House. It's a new month. This has been a crazy year...

totally tubular...

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