WESTSIDE INVITE 2016

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Chas and Sean traveled to San Diego for the 2016 West Side Invite. This West Coast Messenger event is a timeless tradition for these guys. We are hyped to see Chas win the main event this year. Matt Lingo shot some really fun images from the weekend. Check in!

Shred N Out

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Matt Reyes shot some really beautiful moments between heats at the TCB Shred N Out CX elimination race last week. Check his full post HERE!

RACE FACES

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Johnnie
Shallow focus portraits are something I have enjoyed for decades, so it has been a running theme in what I see when shooting/sharing. Enclosed are some racers we see at the same alleycats.

Cooper

Joey

Eddy

Martin

Crihs

Riley

Sean

Hacheon

Dee

STUPOR BOWL 2016

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Stupor Bowl in its 19th year is the longest running and largest alley cat in North America. Taking place in Minneapolis during the coldest part of winter, 300+ messengers / bike nerds make their way to race and prove their drinking capibilities in either one of two race categories- Speed or Stupor.


It Was really rad to see everyone and super hyped to have finished top 15 in the stupor category, I really lucked out with the weather this year but none the less it proved to be one hell of a time. The midwest always shows me a good time. Shoutout to all the race organizers and sponsors for making this jammer happen every year. 10/10 would go again. -SEAN

MASH SHOP SCREENING: CREATE FOLLY

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Last Friday night we kicked off the bike shop level screenings of the new video, with an alleycat, book signing, and a screening of the video included with the book. Matt and Kyle from Create Folly stopped by, and shared some moments from the night. Rob Ward won the alleycat geared, Sean won first fixed. Check in for more details.

YASHICA T4 / TMAX400 LONDON-BERLIN-TOKYO-SEOUL

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While traveling last month, I shot a roll of 36 TMAX400, and just picked up the prints. Enclosed are some details from London, Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul.
Duke
London Alleycat
House of Vans London
Flea market
Kid crash at a pump track
Evan
Brick Lane
Keirin Berlin
Michelle and Mika
Treptow
Small Skatepark
Tokyo
Dylan in the rain
Wakako and Toshi at Lug
Group Ride
Bike Pile
Marco
Art Show
Chas
Walton Brakeless
Blue Lug
In Seoul with Hacheon and Erica
Eddy
Vans

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MASH JAPAN PREMIERE: N.B.

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We are back in San Francisco after touring Japan and Korea for events last week. With a few days to get acclimated, we are finding fun photo sets from these trips, and want to share them here. The first set comes from N.B. who works at Blue Lug, and took time to show us around while in Tokyo. With Hiro, the team had a weekend full of events, and a new city to explore for many. Enclosed are some of N.B.’s images from that weekend in Tokyo.

We met at the airport on Wednesday, and celebrated Chas’s shorts birthday ever, as we flew forward a day, landing in Tokyo Thursday. Nine of us flew out from SF, bikes are built, and we explored, quickly mapping routes to the event spaces we would be using in the days to come. Open Distribution set up the Tokyo events, and we could not believe the details that went into this packed weekend. Friday, we met at the gallery, where a team was fast at work setting up a large photo show, and had flown the 10 year Cinelli Parallax from Italy to have on display. Riders where met with some photo/video press interviews. This was a new experience for many of them, and an indication of what the weekend ahead had to offer. The room filled up as the night ramped up. Many old friends we had med over the years, so so many new faces, excited to better understand what our group of friends/riders are into. Chas was greeted with a birthday cake, and some dudes got loose that night.

Setting up the show

This was the first time we had traveled with Matt and Eddy, and it was a blast for these guys to have time to explore the city together.

We had sent hundreds of photos published in our new book to the organizers, and they in tern sent them to several bike shops and cafes. We did not realize this until we rolled to W-Base and found another full art show, with tons of artifacts from our premieres hosted in 2006 and 2007. Very inspiring for all of us to see the love and respect that came from Moto and his team.




The next stop was another full display at See You Soon Shop. The guys all loved their designs and instantly bought gifts to bring home to friends.

They had a wall of Polaroid 665 prints, and asked the guys to contribute to the prints.


We learned there was a lottery to win tickets to the video screening. The venue seated 250, and the plan to show the new movie two nights in a row made it possible for most interested in checking it out. the following photos are a mix of Saturday and Sunday screenings, that offered a Q&A, as well as a warm introduction of the history of our project, translated.



Martin and Kevin are old friends, and put in endless time to help make the new video strong. We are grateful for their efforts.
On Sunday night, Dylan awarded the first women racer Mone from the alleycat from the night before. Garrett designed special jerseys, and Castelli produced them for winners of all the races that happened as we traveled.
We are a very small project, and bike shop. To travel around the world, and share with others, what we love, was an incredible honor.

Family photo

Saturday night after the screening, Nicolas, and the 25LAS / Black Sox Bicycle Club hosted a large alleycat. 117 racers signed up, and set up for a late night point to point street race. This was the largest alleycat Tokyo had seen in six years. The pressure from police suppressed this community heavily, and we felt lucky so see so many racers come out, and take some fun risks together on this night.

Nickolas



Smoke is always a fun way to start these races, so it was a nice surprise to see these organizers make this dramatic start happen.


The race finished at the cafe where the podium was awarded.
Massa, a messenger from Cyclex was the winner on this night, upsetting Torizo, who has a long standing history of winning Tokyo alleycats.

Sunday afternoon, a large group of riders met up to show the guys the Tokyo streets. The group was maybe 150 riders, so they split up into three smaller groups, and ran around, seeing sites, and finding as many times as possible to stop for ice cream. Mission accomplished. Group ride photos by Takuto Watanabe.



We want to thank everyone for coming out, and the endless amount of support put out by all of the volunteers to make this a massive weekend in Tokyo. We all got on the plane, instantly missing new friendships made. It was a reminder to come back soon.

Thank you!

MASH SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE EVENT RECAP

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When we started the 10 year project, it was tuff to see the light at the end of the tunnel, being it was by far the biggest project I have worked on in my adult career. I sat with Garrett and planned a ruff map of components including a large photo/design book showing the history of MASH, a full length new movie that shows where the level of riding has progressed to, street racing, where we come from, and where our passion still lives today, and space to show these photographs, design projects, and art from our friends over the years. Once we had this on paper, we dove into organizing 10 years of photographs, and design projects, and with Dylan’s help, we shaped up the 355 page book. The video was always being shot in the background, with no real deadline, or end goal beyond keep shooting. By creating a calendar to share all of these ideas, a premiere in San Francisco would be our first stop on what would become a world tour. On September 12th 2015, we shared with the locals, and travelers alike, what we love. Track bikes and their riders using the streets and roads of the Bay Area, to express their interconnection of these elements. This series of photographs show some details from that weekend in San Francisco. We are grateful to all of our friends who tirelessly helped us prepare, who hung artwork in the middle of the night, who worked checkpoints at races, or lost their voices screaming at a video projection, and who woke up the next morning to sweat out the previous nights celebration. We want to thank sponsors that contributed by supporting these riders with the hardware needed to make this video/book possible, and the added legs to travel it around the world. THANK YOU.

MASH PREMIERE: PARIS BY CARO PAULETTE

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One week ago, Chas and Dylan jumped a plane with a passport, and toothbrush, to fly to Paris for a quick screening in route to Berlin. Friends at Wanderlust, Steel, and Drop It Courier set up a fun Monday night. Riders and racers met up at Steel magazine/Cafe, where an alleycat and group ride split out, before re-connecting at Wanderlust for the outdoor screening. Enclosed are some of the details from the Caro Paulette photo essay. Please check their site for full details, and photographer links. Thanks for sharing!

ON THE ROAD

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We are currently on the road, and are so inspired by the support from the global bike community. As a photographer, it has been a challenge to take the back seat at these events, needing to wear the producer cap over the camera operator. If you have been to any of the shows, and have nice images to share, please email us a link. Tomorrow we head to Paris for a quick alleycat/group ride to the screening at Wanderlust., then to Berlin for another street race, and screening. Hoping to see you along the journey!