PHX Photo Ride
Get a bunch of bikes and cameras and ride em around with your friends and take pics! It’s the shit! Thanks for organizing and leading a funnn photo ride @unheard.harmony I had a great time rambling around Phoenix seeing some new angles of the city.
PHX Critical Mass
Some of my absolute favorite photo work I’ve ever done was when I strapped a flash to the front of my @omnium and took it out on the critical mass rides in Phoenix (see the pinned post on my profile with a 3’ beauty dish) so y’all know I had to do the same again when I came back through town!
FOOS GONE FIXED
There's just something about ripping around a city at night with all your bike friends. Of all the group rides when I lived in Phoenix four years ago, my favorite was the @foosgonefixed every Wednesday night. I absolutely love taking (almost) all the bags off my cargo and matching pace with a 20mph brakeless peloton, as well as c-store stops and park chilling, then riding home on nearly empty streets. Thanks for being such a solid crew not judging me the first time I showed up on my absurd rig and keeping the ride going over the last few years so I could hop right back in when I came back through.
Dump Cat
Gotta love how often my timing of rolling into a city lines up with a group ride / bike event / alleycat race. I think the day or two after I got to Phoenix there was an alleycat which was such a wonderful spot to see all my bike friends again and get back into shooting races. Even mid-february it was already 90F+ so we were all hunting for shade and thirsty for aaanything cold. It was an absolute blast hanging out with y'all for a day and it put me in such a goddamn good mood I had to FaceTime my parents and tell em.
PHOENIX
Coming back to Phoenix after nearly four years of being away was one of the best returns to a city that I've ever had. Rolling up to the my old group rides, reconnecting with old crews that have grown and evolved, stripping all the weight off my cargo and SENDING IT, and snapping pics of all the shenanigans. As terrible as this city is...goddamn I missed y'all.
New Bag Day
Choosing a non-traditional bicycle to spend my life on means having to solve a lot of carryshit problems in non-traditional ways. I’d been using an old soft shell cooler as my main front bag for over three years until the welded seams finally failed, leading me to hit up @dyedinthewoolofficial to add a bit of their legendary work to my @omnium. I sent over some measurements, simple diagrams, and a few vague ideas and MY GOODNESS the wizards over there made a bag that truly fits the style of my rig. We used Ultra X for the outer and orange ultra gridstop for the inner, pockets and MOLLE on the sides, removable inner baffles, bungee cords for quick chip bag storage, and added snaps for my favorite @ride_finds BIKE sign up front! Working with DITW to make this custom bag was a great process and they pulled it off better than I ever could have expected. Thanks y’all for everything! I’m glad to have you on board for the next hundred thousand km.
24HOP
Oh my goodness @epicrides 24hopis still the best vibes! Just like last time I was here four years ago, I rolled into the camp town with no plan and immediately found my people. Lots of watching racing, trying to stay hydrated, running around, making new friends and shooting photos, getting heckled to ride cargo down the rock drop, getting a full 8 hours of great sleep, and mostly failing to stay hydrated. Even if you’re not a racer type it’s definitely worth riding out and camping just to experience an event like this that still feels grassroots when so many other races are blowing up into Disneyworld level productions.
RUX
via rux.life: What does it take to ride your bike over 70,000 miles? A lot of grit and even more snacks. We met @truemarmalade this year at @seaotterclassic as he was looking to replace one of his bags. When you spend your days riding from town to town, trusting the gear on your bike means more than anything. We are honored that he went with our 50L Waterproof Tote.
How many snacks can you fit in the 50L wp tote?
"Hah damn uh…right now I have 16 bags of chips, 43 granola/protein/snack bars, 22 fruit roll ups, seven packs of ramen, three tins of tuna, two pounds of chocolate date balls, a dozen or so sachets of instant coffee, five packs of beef jerky, a few pounds of random trail mix, and half a pound of whole coffee beans that I’ll crunch on when I run out of instant. Easily more than 20,000cal of food."
Where are you going from here?
"I’m currently on my way from Monterey to Indianapolis for a wedding/family reunion but in general am always looking for new roads to ride, new people to meet, and new stories to share. "
on film
via: oldsteel.atb @truemarmalade on film.
Shot on Vivitar PS:20 with @fujifilmx_us 400
Developed and Scanned by @imstill.developing