You can always count on Ramon Antonio III JR. to come up with some good clips out of nothing. This guy always finds a way to be in the right place at the right time. Matt Reyes hits some flat ground in SF along with Steve “White Tupac” Jensen. First off that is not Steve Jensen’s nickname. Yet every time I look at Steve Jensen I can’t help but think that if Tupac was white he would look like that. I have also heard people say that he looks like Travis Barker from Blink 182. My personal favorite was that he looked like the white Wiz Kalifa. I still lean toward Tupac personally. At least that is what I would like to believe. If someday I heard that Steve Jensen quit FGFS and chose to instead drop a rap album it would not surprise me. At the same time if Josh Boothby came out and said that he was actually Travis McCoy from the Gym Class Heroes that would also not surprise me. lets compare….

Steve Jensen

Travis Barker

Josh Boothby

Travis McCoy

John “Prolly” Watson

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WOLFDRAWN is back with another edit this time around featuring Elliot Milner. Milner is one of the newest additions to the UNKNOWN Bike Co team from a couple of months back, and from what I took away from this edit it looks like he is earning his spot. Now onto other things. Watching this edit I couldn’t help but wonder, “Why the fuck is that rail there!?!” If you paid close attention in that video, or to our screen shot you may have noticed a rail that Elliot hits several times over that is in the middle of a grass field…WHY!?! The “WHY” is something that might haunt your dreams for the next couple of weeks. Did someone fall there and the city decided that a rail might prevent future injuries? Was it supposed to be paved and the funding fell though and all they were able to install was the rail before the money ran out? Is there some street artists who instead of tagging walls, installs artistic rails in random places? WHY THE FUCK IS THAT RAIL THERE!?! What kind of sick joke is this? Does it bother anyone else? It bothers the fuck out of me that a useless rail exists. It was bothering me so much earlier that I started randomly smashing my dishes on the floor. My wife came home and started screaming at me. She left me no other choice but to keep punching her until she shut up. I did it for her own good (we making domestic violence jokes now). If beating my wife after smashing all of dishes wasn’t bad enough, the whole time I was beating her my dog kept barking at me. After I was done with her I had to give him a couple good punches before he shut up (yeah we are still going with this). Seriously though, this fucking rail is more random than the Mexicans getting so enraged about Gob’s Chicken Dance. Right!?!

You can always count on Zane Meyers for some great FGFS content. Zane shot down to Long beach with the Us Versus Them FGFS and Skateboard team and hit up Active HQ’s skatepark. The Us Versus Them team has always been known to innovate in the world of FGFS. When you have people like Johnathan Davis, Devon Lawson and Steve Jensen on the same team you are going to get a lot of diversity. It really is the smartest way to bring a team together. Get a bunch of guys who all ride differently and they are going to push each other. The ending of this video is very fitting. I am not going to give it away, but this is usually how most sessions end. Zane is bridging a gap here bringing skateboarding and FGFS together in one video. Most FGFS riders already pay attention to skateboarding, and from what I have seen a lot of them can also skateboard. The skateboarding scene on the other hand doesn’t pay much attention to FGFS. I think it mostly has to do with that fact that there is already so much going on in the skateboarding world that they really just don’t have the time to pay attention to other things. Will this video help bridge that gap? I can’t say. All I can tell you is it is a move that needs to be made for the survival of FGFS. Hitting a bigger audience can only help FGFS grow. Great Video, good vibes, and the important thing is that these guys had a lot of fun.

Royal HC swung for the fences getting JBALL and Elliot in this edit! This is one of the best pieced together FGFS edits that I have seen in a while. Yes we get awesome Matt Reyes edits every month, but that is one man doing his thing. It is very refreshing to see that there are other great filmers and edits out there down to film FGFS. It is really about moving into the future. I love that line, “moving into the future”. Businesses miss that every single day. See years ago before the internet the only way someone could find a particular business was to use this thing call the “Phone Book” also known as the “Yellow Pages”. This book would show up on your door every couple of months and you could flip through the different categories to find businesses. I know it sounds low budget. It was. It was the easiest way that you could find some form of specialty store in your local city. If businesses in that city were really wealthy they might run a local commercial. A local commercial only played on TV sets within your certain area. You always knew it was a local commercial because the quality was for shit, and the sounds was always terrible. Hey advertising is advertising. Now we have the internet and instead of paying for a local commercial we film videos and host them online and they do the same thing. Some businesses understand this concept and realize that this is the new TV. Others are still stuck in the past and cannot fathom the reach that an internet video can touch. An internet video can be viewed all over the world at anytime of the day, 365 days out of the year…FOR FREE! As a business or company you need to focus on the free part. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t any cost to you. If you are smart you are going to find and pay for a good filmer and editor. See putting out a shit video on the internet does the same thing that putting out a shit local commercial did back in the 80′s and 90′s. It doesn’t help your business. If I watch a video and at the end of it I think, “I could have done that.” It is not doing what it is supposed to do. On the other hand, if I watch a video online and walk away with amazement it not only makes me think that the filmer and editor did a great job, it also makes me think that the company behind the edit must be doing really well to afford filming of that caliber. It’s the new business card. If I handed you my name and number scribbled on a piece of paper and told you that my business was doing well you would no doubt think that I am lying. At the same point if I handed you a business card made out of gold harvested from the fires of Mt. Doom you would think my business was the one that rules them all. See how that works. In the business world they call this ROI which stands for Return On Investment. When a business invests money into something like filming an edit they are hoping that the edit will lead to future product sales. So if they spend $1000 on an internet video they are normally looking for a 110% ROI. So they are hoping that they spend $1000, and make $11,000 in sales. Did Royal HC spend any money to make this edit happen? I have no idea, maybe they just have some homies that know how to film, but the idea still remains. You watch this edit and you walk away thinking Royal HC must be successful at what they do. Which means that the products they make must be amazing. They make straps. Looking at this video as compared to others they have put out in the past, they must be amazing straps and be selling better than crack in a project building. This is all thanks to the filmers and editors of this video. I take the time to point this out because the filmers and editors never great the praise they deserve. When we watch video we always praise the rider for the tricks they do. We never take the time to praise the dude who made that rider look great on film. Easiest way to prove that it is partly the filmer who deserves praise in any edit is when you as a rider travel to a location you watched in a video. When you show up at that stair set, or ledge that looked crazy in some edit and realize that it is half the size of what it appeared to be in the edt you quickly realize the magic the people behind the lenses add to edits. These guys murdered this edit. And after it was all said and done, the humble men that they are, thanked JBALL and Elliot for allowing them to film them. Mad Respect guys.

This is a great look at Traffic Distribution from the 2012 Euro Bike. This edit must have taken a lot of work. I say that partly because the editing is super intricate, and partly because Euro Bike went down in August of 2012. That means this edit was 6 months in the making. After watching this I must say it was well worth the wait. That has to be the hardest part for filmers. As a filmer you have to make a call between production value and promptitude. Great edits take time. On the other hand, people are not great at waiting. When an event or contest goes down viewers want to see it as soon as humanly possible. Either they were in the video and want to see how they looked, or they missed the event and want to see what they missed. Either way, people want a quick turn around. There is only so much a filmer can do during editing when he has 24 hours to turn out a video. This is especially hard when someone else is flipping the bill and paying you. You have to work on your employers deadlines. Occasionally as a filmer you get to do side projects. Things that you are piecing together for fun. That is my favorite time to film. You can spend weeks working on the edit and trying out different effects. It’s a project of passion. Some how I believe without knowing if I am right, that this was a project of passion. The frame ticks in this edit take a ton of time and matching everything up to the beat is always a pain in the ass. The more time you invest, the better the edit is going to be, and this is a prime example of that.

Wheel Talk and Matt Reyes seem unstoppable lately. Wheel Talk is no longer a website, Wheel Talk has just become a movement. We need a bunch of Wheel Talk T-Shirts hitting the streets. I need to see stickers everywhere. I need to see some Wheel Talk Tattoos in my life. I want a picture of Matt Reyes’ face on a t-shirt with the slogan “Yes We Can” written underneath. I am going to throw this out there and if you don’t like it, feel free to throw it on back. I believe that Matt Reyes is saving FGFS. I know riders are getting better and more companies are popping up everyday, but at the end of it all most companies are hurting. The money just isn’t there…unless you’re Pure Fix. Actually, some could argue that they are doing poorly because of Pure Fix. Pure Fix is the Walmart of fixed gears. “Wait did he just dis one of his own advertisers?” Nope. I don’t deal with the advertising on this website and further more we don’t charge for advertising. So, I can’t really get in trouble. Besides it’s called Journalistic Integrity. It means that as a writer you put your opinions above everything else. You cannot be bought. I am broke so I know that no one has bought me. Someone should give Matt Reyes a big check though.

Quick Sidebar: if you are over the age of 18 it is never acceptable to spell though as Tho. It doesn’t make you cool, it just explains why you are currently taking classes at a junior college and your girlfriend’s parents keep telling her she can do better. And she can do better because you can’t even spell.

Actually that gets me thinking about a lot of things that adults shouldn’t do…which means if you are over 18 you should pay attention to these things.

Adults should not get angry if someone does not like a certain genre of music. It’s called freedom of choice. This is not Nazi Germany.

Adults should not wear any t-shirts that has a logo on it; unless the company is giving them to you for free/discount. Yes, you might love a company and want to support it, but they don’t support you. It’s purely one sided. Why is someone going to pay you when you are willing to do something for free? Think about it.

Adults shouldn’t give other adults advice unless they ask you for it. No exceptions…EVER. Your life is just as fucked up as your friends and you are in no position to lend advice to ANYONE until you get your shit together. Finding Jesus is NOT getting your shit together!

Adults should never under any circumstances, live with their parents. Step one of being an adult is learning how to stand on your own two feet. Exception for this rule is that you are allowed to OCCASIONALLY call your parents and ask for money. But in this case it must be a loan and you must pay it back. Have some pride in yourself.

Adults should never pay to go to a concert. There are plenty of great bands in your local area who need support and play free shows. If a band or artist really wanted you at their show they wouldn’t charge you.

Adults should never lend an opinion about a subject in which they are unversed. If you do not know how to build a bike frame from scratch, you should not call one ugly. Same goes for shouting at the tv when an athlete screws up. You can’t play professional football, so in no way are you educated enough to tell a player through the TV that “he should’ve caught that!” etc.

Adults should never take their own self portrait. Instead you should ask yourself, why no one you know is willing to take your picture. Also, arms length is not the optimal distance for a self portrait.

Adults should never refer to an instagram picture as “artsy.” It’s Instagram… that’s the point and anyone can do it.

Adults should never have arguments with their significant other online. Facebook and Twitter are not forums to have an argument. If you can’t even be in the same room when having an argument, or wait until you are in the same room to argue, than you might as well just go on a talk show and get paid to look like an ass.

Adults should never watch MTV, that’s right I said it! If you really want to kill your brain cells acid works at a much faster rate.

Adults should never clap. People no longer need celebration aloud. Instead, if someone wins an award or something that typically results in clapping, think positive thoughts and remain silent. “Clap in your mind.” After all … this is 2013.

Adults should never wear primary colors. These colors have been around for centuries. They were discovered by cavemen. We need to evolve and select the colors of the future.

Adult men should never own a cat. You are not a woman … enough said.

Adults should never wear hats. Hats were designed to shield our eyes from the sun. We have now invented sunglasses which accomplishes this more effectively making hats obsolete. Furthermore, hats display to people in other countries how low our countrymen’s IQ’s really are indicating that they cannot figure out how to properly wear a hat. They either end up wearing it backwards or some other incorrect way.

Adults should never wear beanies. This is only because some adults cannot seem to figure out what temperature is optimal for beanie wearing. I will help you out. If you do not need gloves to keep your hands warm it is NOT beanie temperature.

Adults should never complain about the city they live in. If you do not like the city in which you currently reside, you are always welcome at anytime to move. If you do move and then proceed to complain about your new city I have an answer for you. It is not the city … it is you … and the problem that you keep running into every time you move is that YOU bring YOURSELF along.

Adults should never tell other adults what to do…EVER…wait…what…fuck! Why they hell did I just write all of this shit!?! Stupid fucking rules!

The Still Pour Crew has been on a filming push for the last 5 months. As one of my co workers put it, “these guys came out of nowhere.” That’s not true. No one can come out of nowhere. They had to come from somewhere? They had to exist all along. In the intro of this video alone, clearly you can see that Taylor has his stall game on LOCK. This isn’t something a rider picks up in a matter of months. This is something that takes a long time to perfect. He had to go out there and practice everyday. I even heard a rumor that while Taylor was perfecting his stalls, his friends would place a bed of nails on the ground beneath him. It was intentionally designed so he wouldn’t spend all of his efforts having to buy yet another set of tubes punctured by a bed of nails. That’s motivation right there. At first they didn’t start riding in that extreme of an environment. They tried the old, “the ground is lava” approach first. But as we and Taylor know, the ground was not lava. So as much as he would try to visualize that the ground was in fact lava, in the back of his mind Taylor knew all along that the ground was indeed not lava. Now as for the bed of nails … you can actually touch and see a bed of nails… and that’s not fun. I  heard Ramon didn’t use just plain ol’ nails… he used rusted nails … that he found at a desolate construction site. That way if Taylor did fall, not only would he need new tubes but he would also need a tetanus shot. Nothing is worse than falling on a bed of rusted nails, only to wind up getting stuck with a needle shortly thereafter. Now THAT is real motivation. It really got me thinking on how to properly motivate a person. I sat down and compiled a list of the different ways we as a society already motivate individuals….

Positive Reinforcement - This is a normal one. It usually consists of people telling you up lifting shit like…

“You can do it!”

“I believe in you!”

“You’re the best around! No one is ever gonna keep you down!”

“You got this…even though we all have been at this spot trying to get this clip for the last 4 hours.”

 Negative Reinforcement - This uses the opposite approach and is also known as hating. These statements consist of negative shit like…

“Dude you are never going to get this… just give up already.”

“Weak bro.”

“You’re okay, but you are never going to be as good as JBALL.”

“The only reason you are sponsored is because you created your own brand and pro’d yourself.”

Kidnapping - Sometime in order to motivate we need someone to realize what they might lose if they don’t comply to our demands. There are some flaws with kidnapping really… the main one is that no one ever follows the rules… for example…

“Do not contact the police or the girl dies.” Even with the threat of that magnitude they always contact the police! Every kidnapper always insists that you DO NOT contact the police… every single one, but no one ever listens. It’s really frustrating as  a kidnapper when the first thing you tell people NOT TO DO they ignore.

“Come alone.” They never come alone. Jesus, this rule is easier than the first rule. How hard is it to come alone? 90% of your day you are alone. So why they hell is it so hard to be alone that day? It’s almost as if you don’t value the life of the person we kidnapped at all.

Fear of Certain Death – This is actually the most effective way to motivate someone. No one wants to die and the idea that they might actually die scares them into doing anything you want them to do. Think about the previous idea of kidnapping someone. The first step is to kidnap them. This usually involves pointing a gun at someone and telling them to come with you or you are going to kill them. Then you proceed to take them to a secluded place where killing them and disposing of the body becomes easier. When a kidnapper firsts grabs you, you’re either at home or some public place where someone might see them. In this case, if shot you might get help quick enough to survive. Instead however, we opt for a secluded place where no one can hear us scream. This is all in the hopes that it will all be okay. Governments for example, always use the fear of certain death. It’s how they talk us into going to war, raising taxes, or even voting for a President. It’s very effective if you think about it. No one can think clearly when they are under the impression that they are going to die.

Fear – Earlier we talked about the fear of death, but there is also just plain ol’ fear itself to motivate. That is why we wake up and go to work everyday when we hate our jobs. We fear being broke, homeless, not being able to pay our bills, starvation, etc. Majority of the time as human beings, we do things because we are fearful of the consequences if we DO NOT do them. The fear of not knowing keeps most people right where they are in life. We work jobs we hate to pay for things we don’t need. But the fear of not having those things is a weight that sits on our chests. I think that’s why we like apocalyptic movies and post-apocalyptic books so much. Because it’s a fresh start. A way to rewrite how the world turns. In apocalyptic situations the people never work a job. They are only focused on surviving by any means necessary. They take what they need. That idea of just taking what you need is very exhilarating.  It’s way better than working hard to just scrape by.

Competition - Another great motivator is competition. People love to compete and prove that they are better than others. We do it everyday. We brag about how big our house is,  how nice the car we drive is,  how much better  fixed gear’s are, how mush hotter our girlfriend’s are, and so on. We brag about being more successful. We brag that our company is better than your company. Or we just simply match people against each other in some form of an event. Like a race or trick comp. Some people get motivated in the heat of competition. They would rather get broke off and go home hurting than lose. People train for competitions. Nothing says I am better than you than some form of medal or trophy. We are a society that puts people in competition for no reason. Like the Academy Awards for example. The Academy Awards honor people for the ability to pretend to be someone else. If you really think about it, it’s kinda weird. Why? Because there is no basis for most of the characters that these actors play in movies. Forrest Gump was not a real person and did not live the life shown in the movie. So how can we say that Tom Hanks played an amazing character? Has anyone else played Forrest Gump in order for us to compare to Tom Hanks? No. So how can we really know that he did an amazing job if he’s the only person to ever do that job? Everything is always good until you see another version that’s better. Or the opposite. For example, when Hollywood makes a remake of a great movie most people tend to like the original better. We know we enjoy the film more because we have something to compare it to. It’s how FGFS and fixed gear edits work. We know we like one edit better than another because we have watched them both. So theoretically, all of the videos we post are in competition with one another because we have something to compare it to.

Love - By far this is the most powerful of all motivations. If we love doing something and it makes us happy, we put a lot of hard work into it. This is what usually separates the successful from the non. We all need a reason to get up in the morning and do what we do. If we love what we do, that is all the reason we need. At the end of it all… if we love what we do, none of the above can motivate us to do it differently.

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Jakob Santos is one of the most motivated riders out there right now. I say that because he is constantly traveling. I know what some of you are thinking, “All pro’s travel.” No, they really don’t. All pro’s wish they could travel, but they can’t. Why? MONEY. I wish we lived in a better world that allowed people to pursue the things they wanted to without the fear of going broke, but we do not. It costs money to travel. Even if you drive like Santos does a ton, you still have to contend with Gas money. It cost a lot of money in gas to get anywhere. Some sponsors will cover the occasional trip here and there, but for the most part they won’t fund every trip that you want to take. Sometimes the Pro’s have to pay for their own expenses. Which means when a pro is traveling he is losing money. This isn’t skateboarding; pro’s are not getting huge checks every month from their sponsors. Some of the pro’s in FGFS don’t even get checks, they just get free shit. Don’t get me wrong, getting free stuff isn’t a bad thing. The only problem is that they guy working at the gas station will not fill up your tank for a set of handlebars and a crank set. As a Pro you end up having to find a way to pay rent, all of your other bills, and still come up with enough money to travel and film. That’s why with a lot of riders all of their edits are filmed around where they live within about 3 cities. Most Northern California riders never travel down to So Cal and vice versa. That’s why I get hyped when riders like Jakob Santos basically go broke trying to bring us new footage from new places. You gotta respect the hustle.

I’ve been really tired lately. I am not sure why, but for some reason it feels like the weight of the world is on my shoulders. That being said Devin brought me up a today seeing this edit. Devin’s inventive style lends to an array of tricks on obstacles that most would think impossible to hit. My personal favorite is his different approaches to stairs. He brings something different to the table and that is always refreshing.

Back to me being tired. Like I said for some reason everything that could go wrong, is. It makes it really hard to stay motivated. That being said I am a man and I just need to keep moving forward and push all that negativity back into a place deep in the back my mind where I forget it is there. Why? Because that is what men do. Men don’t bitch; at least they shouldn’t. Men keep walking forward. Men push on. Men do not fixate. Most importantly, men do not have crisis’. A guy I know is suffering from what he calls an identity crisis. He dropped out of college because he doesn’t know what he wants to do with his life. He moved in with his girlfriend because he can’t afford to pay his own rent. When I heard this story I think the person telling me was expecting me to show some form of compassion. I didn’t. I called him a BITCH. Why? Because men do not have crisis’! Do you realize that tomorrow the world could break out into war? Tomorrow an asteroid could smack into the Atlantic ocean. Tomorrow your miserably, waste of a life could end. Those are crisis’! Dropping out of college because you have no idea what you want to be is not a crisis’. That’s like calling a scrapped knee a “BATTLE SCAR”. The men of the world today are really boarding on the line of being given the right to be called a man. The men of yesteryear hustled there asses off supporting 6 kids, a wife, and all of the bills. That was a man’s job. Back in those days women didn’t work, they stayed at home and took care of the children. Men needed to be providers. Hundreds of years before that men found that same role, only instead of paying the mortgage, they were out in the wild hunting dinner. What about the men of today? Are they really putting food on the table? Are they hustling? Most are just bitching about problems, and complaining that, “the world is never going to change.” It’s not going to change because you are a bitch and the only time the world ever changed is when MEN gathered together and rode off to certain death to change it. Really!?! Identity Crisis!?! You probably piss sitting down like a girl. Man Up!

Someone should explain to Marco Marquez from Royal HC the definition of throwaway footage. From the very start of this video I was blown away. If this is throwaway for Marco, I wonder what he is keeping for his next edit? It’s the old idea, “one mans trash is another mans treasure.” I never understood what that meant until I broke up with my first girl friend in high school. I was dating this girl Kim and all of my friends wanted to hook up with this chick. I’ll be honest I wasn’t even that into her, I just went after her because all of my friends thought she was hot, and I wanted to show them up and be the first to hook up with her. Well that hook up turned into her becoming my first girl friend. In high school I hate when people get into relationships, and if you are in high school and you read these articles I will clue you in as to why. You are going to change once you get out of high school. So that girl you are dating now that you think it the greatest girl in the world is going to be one of many girls you end up in a relationship with before you get to the point of getting married. I knew this in high school and all I wanted to do was hook up with as many girls as possible before I graduated. I screwed up a ended up ina relationship. Luckily Kim was just like every other girl in the world and complete nuts. Girls are crazy, and the older they get, the crazy they become. Kim had a bunch of issues and it drove me up the wall. She must have been bipolar because one minute she was happy and the next minute she was crying. Crazy I tell you!!! So i did what any good boyfriend would do when your girl friend is clearly going threw some mental distress; I dumped her. It was the right decision, and even though she would leave me messages crying on my answering machine for me to take her back I just couldn’t do it. You think the time I spent with Kim would end there, but it didn’t. A friend of mine David started dating Kim about 3 weeks after I broke up with her. At first he was scared to tell me. He felt bad. I didn’t understand why, Kim was crazy, he was more than welcome to date her. When he finally did tell me he said in the conversation, “I know I shouldn’t have dated her since you already did, but I think I am in love with her.” Come again? “I fell in love with her the minute I saw her.” He told me. I laughed. I mean Kim was crazy, but my buddy David didn’t seem any saner. I figured they were perfect for each other, and for the next 8 years they were. They got married right out of high school, and 10 months later, even though David swore he always used protection, they welcomed a daughter into the world. Maybe my trash was Davids treasure? Like I said everything was great for the next 8 years, but as I told you before Kim was crazy. David and Kim got Divorced after 8 years of being together in a crazy turn of events. David came home from work one day and log on to the family computer. Kim’s facebook page was up, and even though he swears he didn’t, David did some snooping. Kim apparently was friends with this guy around David’s age who happened to live right down the street from them. He thought it was weird because he had never met the guy, but Kim and this guy seemed to exchange facebook messages for the past 4 years. At the time David didn’t stop to do the math; but when your wife is exchanging messages on facebook with a man you have never met for the last 4 years, and you just happen to have a 4 year old child you might want to do a little math. David clicked over to this guys profile and rifled through some of his photos. He noticed in one of them that this guy had a fully restored Dodge Charger. David had recalled passing a house everyday on the way to and from work with that exact same car in the driveway. Things were taking a turn for the worst. Now to this day David says he wasn’t jealous, he just wanted to know who this guy was. Regardless of the why, David jumped in his car and head over to this guys place. He said he just wanted to talk to the guy. The baseball bat in his back seat said otherwise. Upon his arrival all questions were immediately answered. As David pulled up to this guys house Kim was exiting the front door. Some thing happened, which I will not get into, but needless to say I get a call to bail David out of jail later that evening. All said and done a couple months later David was Divorced, and a few weeks after that the DNA test results he was no longer a father. I wish the story would stop there, but it doesn’t. Kim ends up marrying this new guy and they end up having 2 more kids. A couple of years later Kim is caught in bed with yet another guy, and she was on her way to her second divorce. I wish that was where it stopped, but unfortunately Kim’s new husband didn’t believe in baseball bats, he believed in guns. He is serving life in prison for murder. I understand the idea behind, “one mans trash is another mans treasure”, but sometimes, “one mans trash is also another mans trash.”

We all know Matt Reyes can ride; film; edit; save starving children in Africa; cure global warming; knit while running; post shit up on Wheel Talk; disarm a bomb using only a 6mm Allen key and a Pedro’s tire lever; powder coat your frame to match the black eye he just gave you; tweet while texting; and hold his breath for exactly 7 minutes and 42 seconds, but that’s what most people know.

People don’t know, that he is a world renown finger painter. People don’t know, that he only sleeps 1 hour a week and when he does sleep it’s in a chair. People don’t know, that in between riding and filming he uses his free time to decode Russian codes for the CIA. I recently found out that he once defended a small Peruvian village from a swarm of killer bees with only a Chrome Delta Bag and a baseball hat (you would be amazed at how many killer bees fit in a chrome delta bag). He speaks 7 languages, 1 he invented during a long car trip from San Jose to Seattle. He rejected Lindsey Lohan…twice! Once before she was on drugs! He is considered a Saint in the Catholic Religion. Just Google “Saint Matt”. No one knows that he owns his own body piercing studio in Los Angeles. Along the way I realized, that there is a lot of things that people don’t know about Matt Reyes. And do you know why? Because he is a humble man. He doesn’t run around talking about his accomplishments. For example, the Gold Medal he won in the Beijing Olympics for full contact Origami. He doesn’t brag about how he created a new kind of Velcro that doesn’t make noise when pulled apart…silent Velcro. He never tweets about  how lucky Specialized is to have him on the team. He never updates his status on Facebook that tells people to buy the P.Fix. His identity is unknown, when volunteering at the Chrome Store in SF sewing messenger bags. Every time we hang out (which is never), I always ask him why. “Why Matt? Why are you so humble? You are too awesome to be humble about all the things you do.” And do you know what he tells me?

He says, “Matt Reyes can either be a man made of flesh and bone or Matt Reyes can be an idea. A man can be killed but, an idea can change the world.”

He is right. He is always right. He is Matt Reyes.

This is exactly what we have been talking about, Bomb Hills Speed Kills decided to cruise down to the Shredwell 2 Premiere at iMinusD and while there they grabbed some footy on their Go Pro. That’s it people, that is all you have to do. Content is content. Doesn’t matter if you have the best camera in the world or an iPhone, all that matters is that you are capturing what is going on. You are showing the world something that they missed out on. People either don’t waste the time to produce anything, or they hold on to footage for way too long. How do I know this? Check out how many filmers are filming this thing! In this video I counted 8 other filmers. All of them were catching clips, but where the hell are their edits??? Some of these filmers were even up in the action with nice DSLR’s and fish-eye lenses but, how long is it going to take to see that footage? A week? Two weeks? You gotta have commitment when you are filming, 24 hour turnaround, 48 hours maximum. The event happened on Saturday. Here we are Monday evening and Bomb Hills Speed Kills is the only peeps dropping an edit. Well done my friend I was excited to see what went down. This is why dudes don’t film. You gotta be on the grind. You gotta hustle. You gotta not sleep. It’s way easier to just start a blog and post pictures. Posting a picture and writing about said picture takes a matter of seconds. Here case and point, I will time myself…better yet, I will have another writer time me so it’s honest. I am going to quickly search the internet, find some pictures of shit happening in the fixed gear world and write a quick snippet about them. The average blog does about 5 posts a day, so I will set my target at 5 fake posts. Ready…..GO!

Oh snap Matt Spencer aka WOLFDRAWN caught this awesome photo of Joe Mckeag doing a wall plant. Did he ride away from the wall plant? I dunno it’s just a picture. The important thing is that Joe’s face resembles that of an old Japanese man, see reference pic below.

Wait…maybe that is this old Japanese guy. Damn if this old Japanese guy could wallplant that would be dope.

Have you ever wanted to carry a bike frame or and extra wheel set around for an extended period of time? Why not right? Hahaha, get it? YNOT just dropped this bag called the Cobra which can do that very thing. Looking at the picture you might realize that the extra wheel set the model in the ad is carrying is a 700c wheel set and he is riding a 26′ Concept FGFS frame. So yes, those wheels he is carrying are not for him. He might be bringing them to a coffee shop to sell them to a guy who hit him up on craigslist, which could make sense. In which case the $120 he is going to get from that guy for those rims will help him pay some of the $289 price tag for this bag, it does come in Camo. Know what would make more sense? A backpack that could carry a shit ton of guns. Why? If the Walking Dead has taught me anything it’s that the dude with the most guns always wins.

I’m not fucking with the guy wearing this backpack. This bag holds up to 4 handguns and a shit ton of Ammo. Come on, you kinda wish you had one right?

Yes, part of the fun of riding your bike is that you are not stuck indoors, but have you ever thought about the people watching you ride? You think they just want to stand outside doing nothing while you sprint by? No! What if you could find a way to prove you are the fastest rider in town, while also allowing the people watching to drink beer. It’s called a Gold Sprint, you hook up some bikes to some trainers and people duel it out. Little known fact Chris Hoy has never won a race against another opponent on a trainer. Why? Probably because it’s nothing like real track racing. Gold Sprints is to Track Racing what Guitar Hero is to actually playing a guitar. But hey everyone else gets beer, so that is a plus. Now if we did FGFS Gold Sprints that would be dope. Ever seen how low the seat is on a FGFS bike? Imagine trying to race on that.

Just got a pair of these Road Bike Shoes in the mail. They hit me up to do a review. At first I was skeptical so I asked them some questions. You guys know that I don’t race professionally right? They did. You are also aware that I have never won a race…ever? Yes they were. You also know that I am a little out of shape so I can’t really put in the miles that most riders will? Yes they understand. Than why do you want me to do a review about road shoes? They told me it was because of the amount of people that read the blog. They just wanted me to give a review as a form of advertising, and the deal was I get a free pair of shoes. I have no moral fiber, so why not. These are great, they have air holes on the sides so my feet don’t sweat. They are made of a supple leather skinned from the youngest of cows put to slaughter, and hipsters give me high fives when I ride by. Also the logo matches a PBR can so that is always a plus. The real reason you should buy these is because I am honest with my reviews. I mean you have read all of the bad reviews I have done about products right? Wait…What do you mean I haven’t done any bad reviews? That doesn’t make sense. How can I give you an honest opinion on a product if I have never said one is bad? All these people email me pictures of products, what would you have me do, tell the truth? Tell you not to buy them? Than those people wouldn’t be my friends anymore. I got picked on a lot in high school and I now have a problem psychologically if people do not like me, so for the love of God buy these shoes.

Bridgestone just dropped this sick frame set. Just ignore the fact that Bridgestone has just agreed to plead guilty and to pay a $28 million criminal fine for its role in conspiracies to rig bids and to make corrupt payments to foreign government officials in Latin America related to the sale of marine hose and other industrial products manufactured by the company and sold throughout the world. I mean it sells for $3,800, other riders and going to get a fixie boner when they see you riding around town on this bad boy.

Don’t buy that last frame I just showed you, buy this frame instead. Why? I dunno, I just like posting pictures of frames and tell you to buy them because I think they are cool. Also they took the time to email me and ask me to post a picture of their frame and tell you to buy it. Besides this one only costs $2,300.

Forget those last two bikes I just showed you, this one is way better. I forget why. Actually, I am just hoping that you don’t notice that all of these posts are just trying to sell you something. I mean I am not showing you these bikes is action through a video. I am just showing you a picture and telling you it’s sick. I haven’t even seen this bike in person. I just think it’s sick based on the same picture you are looking at. With my non existent knowledge of frame building, I can tell that this bike was crafted from the best materials.

22 MINUTES! Sorry, I would have tried to throw some humor in, but I was pressed for time. Also, I am just harassing people, please don’t go and cry about it. Real men don’t cry, they get drunk and rant on Twitter.