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bump. i hope everybody on here reads this and is given a view (although maybe somewhat one sided) of how ass backwards our current government is operating. i think kanye west kind of nailed it. i remember hearing news reports like a whole month ago about how people were concerned that becuase we had sent so many troops and national guardsmen over to iraq that in the case of an emergency on the homefront we would be fucked. this shit is terrible in so many ways.

what is graffiti?

i know that mark webber dude, the main character BLEST in that movie is from philly. without blurting it out, can anybody hint as to what he writes? like a crew or era or partners or something? a buddy of mine knew him but i aint seen him in a while. and that ending with the cop was super corny.

does that NACE actually say 93 next to it? theres no way its that old, that style looks too new.

glad to see that MB finally finished, good shit SF. and bump for me not using buff. shit will be invisible in 2 years.

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unless its a heavy peice of junk or you really are that lazy that you dont want to learn how to shift, dont bother. ESPECIALLY if its a nice old french, english or italian ten speed, dont bother. if you really want to do it youll need a hub that is threaded (not casette) and some long, horizontal dropouts (the things that the wheels axle slide into). you could just leave the derailers on and never shift, but if you really wanna save that half a pound, go ahead and pull them off and throw on a bmx freewheel. but after you do this youre probably going to have a really crooked chainline which can cause problems. go to sheldonbrown.com for more info. and if any of those derailers say Suntour Superbe, Dura Ace or Campagnolo on them, holler at me. ill take them off for you.

yeah, what the fuck is with Chicago? i was takin the train out west, and stopped over there for a couple hours. it was a weekday afternoon and the streets were fairly empty except for like a zillion messengers. for each block i walked i was passed by like 5. i saw a few people comuting and shit but there were just tons of messengers rolling around. and the streets were all like 5 lanes wide. is there a ton of work there cause the core is spread out, or cause of the weather and nobody wants to walk their deliveries, whats the deal?

like i said before, i love huge, round breasts. on women. i hope this thread lives on and continues to waste my time as it does yours. geraldo rivera oner. http://picardwithouttehfunnay.ytmnd.com/

i love massive breasts

i usually try and be as courteous and law abiding as i can when i ride, but sometimes it boils down to yo, if im on my bike, fuck you. i dont care if im taking up the whole lane, youre in a car, youll get there before i will anyway. go ahead and give yourself a heartattack in your SUV, stuck in traffic honking and screaming at me. flooring it to get to the next red light. im laughing as i dip through traffic then run the next light if nobodys coming. you can catch a U lock if you really wanna get angry about it. rush hour in the city=nobodys catching a bicycle. and did futura really design the accents on the Madone?

speaking of writing on buses on video though, yall know hometown DES29 did that shit first on the on the go video!! did a D fillin on the bus while it was stopped at a light, that shit is classic Quoted post anybody know who it is in Street Soldiers thats doing that tag on a bus during the intro (i think)? it looked like maybe extra but i could never get a good look.

i still might be interested, hit me up on PM. and i hear you on the bigger house. i got rid of bikes 12 through 38 at the end of this spring. and i still have a tandem.

im used to dumpstering a good portion of my shit so 20 bucks is my idea of cheap, but depending on what its made of and its condition id pay 50 or 75? or i dunno, you make an offer. and 62 is prolly gonna be too big. thanks...

i wouldnt even bother with trying to skate Love or City Hall, but roll by to check it out and definitley roll around center city. theres little shit to skate hidden all over. and if you get a chance, check out the parking lots underneath 95 in south philly, theyre starting to rebuild ledges and little hips and banks and crap. and expect FDR to be super crowded unless its not real nice out or its 5 in the morning. and itll start to get cold around thanksgiving, but i guess that depends on what your idea of cold is.

havent seen him in a minute but i know hes still doing his thing cause i catch his shit on the regular. one of the few people who rocks freights, streets spots, and legal walls well and in multiple states.

/\ /\ /\ /\ /\ haha, Pacific Bicycle truck

that schooly d shit is fuckin awesome. 52nd and parkside. scratching with his Filas? school d then: clowning, and ultimately brainwashing some bar band now: making the theme music for aqua teen hunger force

I NEED SOME SHIT: im looking for a cyclocross frame (preferably) or decent hybrid frame and fork. no headset BB or anything, just frame and fork. 60cm preferably but i could rock a 58 or something close. preferably all steel, preferably cheap. ALSO: a nice old pair of 5 or 6? speed thread on hubs or wheels. preferably campy high flange, but ill consider low flange, suntour, mailard, or anything else. my bike is sooooo close but i need a decent set of wheels or hubs to build on. ill pay or trade, ive got tons of decent road, mntn, and even some BMX shit. also, to the dude rockin paint in his seat bag, bottle cages hold normal size cans perfectly.most people dont even notice although it is louder.

i wasnt feeling the foil cause it was my first day back on the east coast this summer from calis beautiful weather, it was hot and SUUUUUPER humid so the fucking pizza was flowing lava on top of bread and the foil only made it worse and its more shit to throw out. and the slice was super short and wide, sorta hard to eat. i guess im just used to lorenzos shitty, long, cheap, utterly satisfying at 3 in the AM slices.

i said wheres your MAC machine to a woman at a register in cali and she stared back at me for a good minute, and then i repeated myself and she was like oooooooooh, atm machine. and good luck finding a simple ass, plain, cheap slice of pizza on the west coast. DC and baltimore insist on putting their slices on aluminum foil.

yo SF1, i always thought the Parker shit was fly for a couple reasons. 1. the one you posted is all the fuck the way up there under 95 and i think that dude hung over or some shit, and thats dope even given how ugly that thing is. 2. hes got another peice similar to that on an i beam on the other side of FDR 3. hes got a tag half way up the pole for the billboard near the tracks that looks like its been there way before anybody thought to climb it and get the back of it. man i wish i was on my computer, philadelphia and its surrounding suburbs have some choice wacky/disgustingly ugly grafitti.

sup yall. im looking to do some long distance touring, hopefully coast to coast, unsupported (ill be camping, bringing everything with me and staying in few to no hotels but possibly some friends places) i was wondering if any of yall knew of some good cross country routes, tips on touring, camping, places to stay, etc. ill be leaving within the next month and going from pennsylvania to southern california. any help would be appreciated.

philadelphia in the house! there's a bunch in there that i saw or caught rolling but never got a proper flick of. somebody should move them jauns to the philly freights thread.

Im not sure if this has been covered yet, but i keep seeing people asking about fixies and figure its worth repeating. i volunteer at a place that lets you come in and fix your bike for free, sells used bikes and parts, etc. in the last 3 months ive seen about 6 of these "fixed gear" bicycles that people keep buying off the internet, all from one or 2 people based in california (i think)..... DO NOT BUY THEM!!!!!!!!! i actually bought a similar one myself about a year and a half ago at a swap not realizing what it was. these bikes are road frames built on road cranks and road freewheel hubs. theres a couple things that are shady about them. -most of the bikes i saw were respaced not by re-dishing the wheel, but by flipping over the BB spindle so as to achieve a more straight chainline. the chainline still remained pretty horrible. -in my case, the frame was bent right behind the head tube on the down and top tubes. although it was steel, this is sketchy and probably shouldnt have been sold to me. -i also realized a while later that the drive side arm had a small crack right where the arm meets the spider. this could have proved pretty dangerous. -the worst and most dangerous aspect of these bikes is that the hub is fixed by slapping on a track cog and then tightening down a lock ring from a bottom bracket adjustable cup. in some cases the guy had used lock tite, in others it was just tightened against the cog. in either case, the ring will eventually slip because it is not as strong as an actual lockring, and is not reverse threaded like a true track hub so rather than tightening with reverse force (from stopping or skidding), it will either just unthread and fall off, or more likely strip apart and ruin the threads on the hub. -all the bikes were pretty shoddily assembled as well. some of them had totally loose bottom brackets, untensioned or unbalanced wheels, small deformities in the frame (which could be fatal or just aesthetic), and lacked grease in key areas. basically i would warn against buying a bike you cannot look at in person, but ESPECIALLY not one of these things. unless youre just buying it cause its an ok frame and its dirt cheap and you arent going to pedal around on that deathtrap "fixed" hub.