60s COLNAGO ROAD BIKE

THIS IS THE ROAD VERSION......

60s COLNAGO TRACK BIKE

IN CASE YOU HAVENT SEEN ONE BEFORE..........

DE ROSA CATALOG

OLD CATALOGS RULES!SCAN COURTESY OF

GABBA

ROMINGERS HOUR BIKE

ERNIE HOLDIN HIS CREATURE AND REPPIN HARD......

TRACK RACERS

I wonder who built the blue bike.....

LOOK!

LOOK TRACK SPACESHIP,READY FOR TAKE OFF.......

POGLIAGHI

FIRST POG STAYER IVE EVER SEEN.....

PREYS

GRAFFUCK!

DEI TRACK BIKE

IF YOU DONT LIKE THAT PAINT JOB,THERE MUST BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH YOU...........

FALCONE

HOPEFULLY,SOMETHING SIMILAR,WILL BE ON THE WAY........

PUSSYCAT

PIC SAYS IT ALL!

EDDY'S GEOMETRY

EDDY'S GEOMETRIES FOR HIS WORLD HOUR RECORD FRAME.......

IT'S A SCHWINN!

HAD TO COP IT!MEAN STREAKS MEETS SCHWINN BIKES!LOCALLY RE-DUBBED AS "SCHWINN STREAKS".A TRUE SIGN OF THE TIMES.IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN...

FUCK THE WORLD....

...VANILLA ENS SAYS SO!

RIDIN' THE TRAIN...

DOWNTOWN BOUND TRAIN,NEARBY DYRE AVE.SUMMER OF 2005.

LESSON ONE...

"HOW TO ROCK A WALL"OLD FLYER FOR A JAM THAT WE HAD HERE IN 2000.

ICE,ICE,BABY.......

EVERYONE LOVES A BARGAIN

FOUND THIS FLYER IN MY MAIL BOX.RVCA TELLS THE WORLD ABOUT THEIR LABOR DAY SALE,I TELL YOU ABOUT THE TYPO THEY MADE WITH THE WORD "BARGAIN".IM SURE THEY WILL GET RID OF MY NAME FROM THEIR MAILING LIST.......

COLNAGO BROS.

OLD PIC OF THE COLNAGO BROTHERS,WHEN THEY WERE STILL KEEPING IT REAL IN THE FRAMEBUILDING GAME.

MV AGUSTA

FROM THE BOTTOMLESS DRAWER...........MILANO FIERA,MID 70S.

COPPI'S RECORD

NO,I WASNT REFERRING TO COPPI'S HOUR RECORD!ISNT IT COOL?

OLDOPE

GOT THIS PIC FROM AN OLD CYCLING BOOK.THESE ARE THE ACTUAL "BOMBS" THAT WERE USED ON THE COPPI ERA.

THE PURPLE STUFF

IF YOUR ARE FAMILIAR WITH DAVE CHAPPELLE ROUTINES,I'LL WORD OUT A JINGLE FOR THIS POST:"WHEN IM TRACK-THIRSTY,ALL I WANT IS THE PURPLE STUFF!"

SILVER BULLET

KID IS STILL DOING HIS THING......

ALVA BOYS

I USED TO STARE AT THIS PIC,MORE THAN ONCE A DAY.........

DYNAMIC DUO

"YO PATRICK,YOU READY?"

AVAILABILITY

THIS PIC MAKES ME THINK OF THE MOVIE,"A BRONX TALE".REMEMBER WHEN CHAZZ PALMINTERI TALKS TO YOUNG"C" ABOUT AVAILABILITY?

BLATANT LOCALISM

MAN,I MISS THE FILM-ERA OF GRAFF.WITH ALL THIS DIGI SHIT GOIN ON,PICS KEEP POPPIN UP ON MY COMP.....

CICLI IRAK

IN THE GRAFFITI GAME,GETTIN A GOOD/ORIGINAL NAME,IS KEY.MANY TIMES,I VE SEEN STUFF NAMED AFTER WRITERS AND CREWS(AND VICEVERSA)HERE,ONE OF THE FINEST EXAMPLES.I EMPTIED AN OLD ROOM FULL OF OLD MAGS,PARTS AND OTHER RANDOM STUFF.AMONG ALL THAT BIKE MEMORABILIA,THIS ONE POPPED UP,STILL UNSCATHED BY THE TIME/HANDLING THAT WENT BY.I WONDER WHO WERE THE MAKERS OF SUCH BIKES AND WHERE THEY WHERE FROM.OH,BY THE WAY,TELL THESE IRAK KIDS,THAT YOU SEEN IT HERE FIRST......

VITOR BELFORT

A LOCAL FAVORITE AROUND HERE,PEEP HIM IN ACTION HERE

YAMAHA BMX

"DANCIN',WITH TEARS IN MY EYES......." PS:WORD TO "ULTRAVOX"

ALLEY KAT KNIFE

ALLEY CATS ARE GETTIN ROUGHER AND TOUGHER THESE DAYS,AND THESE KIDS AT KATZ KNIVES DECIDED TO STEP INTO THE GAME.AFTER MESSENGER BAGS,LOCKS,WALKIE TALKIES ETC.THIS WILL BE THE NEXT ITEM THAT YOU WILL NEED TO CARRY,IF YOU WANNA STEP ON THE PODIUM.CHECK here FOR MORE INFO.

MO' MOTTA

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY FRESH!NOW,SHOW ME THE TRACK VERSION....

MILANO 6 DAYS POSTER

STEALIN KEIRIN POSTERS SEEMS TO BE ALL THE RAGE THESE DAYS(EVENTUALLY,THEY WILL END UP ON EBAY)BUT WHAT ABOUT A POSTER ,THAT IS ACTUALLY A PAINTING,TO REPRESENT MILANO'S '83 SIX DAYS?VIGORELLI ANYONE?

GRAFFITRIADS

IF YOU THINK THAT TRIADS ARE SOME CHINESE GANG SHIT,THIS PIC PROVES YOU WRONG.THIS IS WHAT YOU GET WHEN WRITERS FROM THREE DIFFERENT CITIES ARE JOINING FORCES.FIRENZE,VIAREGGIO AND HELLSINKI ARE IN THE HOUSE....

ANOTHER COLNAGO PIC

ANOTHER SHOT FROM THAT COLNAGO BOOK......

THE BITE OF THE SHARK

NEVERMIND THE NAME ON THIS JAPANESE TRACK BIKE,THIS IS STRAIGHT UP BITING!

COLNAGO MEETS ATARI

BESIDE THE FACT THAT "ERNIE" LOOKS LIKE ONE OF THE SOPRANO'S,I WANT YOU TO CHECK THE ATARIESQUE SHIFTERS

HAVE A SEAT

MAN,YOU GOTTA LOVE SHOPS!YOU MEET ALL KINDA PEOPLE,YOU SEE AL KINDA STUFF,INCLUDING THIS STOOL!FOR YOUR INFORMATION,THE BB IS A CAMPAGNOLO TITANIUM ONE....

EARLY CARGO MESSENGER

MAN,THOSE MESSENGERS IN THE STREETS ARE AWESOME,I MEAN,SKILLED RIDERS,DODGIN TRAFFIC AND ALL THAT.I VEE SEEN DUDES ON BIKES CARRYING HUGE PARCELS,BUT,HEY,I THINK THAT THIS DUDE KICKED THE WHOLE CARGO CATEGORY UP A NOTCH....FIRENZE,CIRCA 1943.

1948 DEI PISTA

YOU'LL BETTER RECOGNIZE!