This is the finished version of a four-day project that included one trip to a local residence and half a dozen trips to four different bike shops. I got it all together and color-coordinated before Lily got back from visiting family though, so it was a success.

This is the beginning. I picked up this Masi frame and forks with wheels, stem, bars, and seat post with my own Grocery Bike. This set-up was the basis for this build (Thanks, Jimmy!).
Next I put on a short, BMX-style Origin-8 stem, trimmed-down Origin-8 …

Yes, after almost a year of hemming and hawing, waiting to see if Sunday was actually going to release Morning 24 forks with 990 mounts, I finally just put the damn thing together.

I’m trying out some Salt Plus U-brakes on the rear (not pictured), and so far I like them better than any other brakes I’ve had (way better springs than standard 990s). A.J. at The Peddler built these wheels with Sun Rim Rhyno Lite rims, an Odyssey Vandero front hub, and a KHE Reverse freecoaster on the back. Odyssey …

In the June, 1987 issue of FREESTYLIN’ Magazine, underground BMX rider and zine-maker Carl Marquardt described a ramp trick he called a “flakie”: a backflip fakie air. His friend and fellow rider Paul Mackles had offered him $100 if he pulled it. Three years later, Mat Hoffman did the damn thing at a contest in Paris. In his usual methodical style, Mat worked on it in secret in Oklahoma for months beforehand. As he puts it in The Ride of My Life (Harper-Entertainment, 2002), “To make it, I needed at …

I was walking to class today, and I was almost mowed down by a guy on a fixed-gear. I was crossing a street, in the crosswalk, where I clearly had the right of way, but he rang his bell and blew by right in front of me, running the stop sign on the corner. I’d already been conceiving this post in my head and that was the last straw. Being a frequent rider of bikes on the streets of many cities, as well as a frequent pedestrian, I have come …

I built this bike from pieces left over from other projects, bikes I found in garbage piles, bikes left next to dumpsters, and a few small but crucial parts from The Austin Yellow Bike Project. After completing it and riding it for about a month now, I am convinced that it’s a viable set-up for more than just trips to the grocery store.

This build centers on a Spalding “Blade” ladies hybrid frame that was left in the garbage at my old place here in Austin. The geometry is not super …

Well, the second giant Old School BMX gathering of the year hath gone down. From Nuno Oliveira and Defgrip:
I hit up the Old School BMX show in Bellflower, CA today. As you can image, there was Old School BMX all over the place, and I was on hand to shoot some photos of it. There was a great turnout, and a bunch of rad stuff being displayed.
Click through to check out the pics, and click HERE to check out more on Ride.
-Nuno

Many thanks to Nuno for …

My friends were concerned about my bike ride home, I was not. The
night had warmed up, no longer the 20 degrees the morning brought.
I rode into my secret world.
With my bike.
Along the bike path, and up the hill.
Buchannan Street. Up the hill north of Columbia Pike.
I passed a sight beneath the street lamp light.
Five perfect logs with straps stapled on like they were suitcases. I
keep on going, with a stomach full of food and wine.
Wow… I must tell my friend Roni about that fantastic “trash pile” of
logs with …

When Kip Williamson started posting pictures of sick, sick custom-built bikes on Facebook, I remembered his name from the old UGP videos that got me through hours of bike maintenance at the shop in Seattle when I worked as a bike mechanic. His style as a video editor, flatland rider, and bike-builder are undeniable. The more I saw of his bikes, the more I knew we needed to get a closer look.

Roy Christopher: First up: Where are you from? How long have you been riding? What got you into BMX?
Kip …