Over the weekend TRAFIK attended “Movies About Bikes”, a short film festival brought to us by Funwunce. Rick Darge, the Director, Producer and coordinator of the event presented some great locally made short films like Monday Night Rehab, Los Angelopes, West Side Mosey, and the much anticipated Wolfpack Drag Race promo. It was a rainy night, but that didn’t stop the bike crowd from showing up and virtually selling out the beautiful Vista Theater in Echo Park.

This is an event Rick (seen in picture above^^) and his Funwunce team would love to do at least twice a year to encourage filmmakers and bike enthusiasts to create more short films. Rick said, “We’re already talking about making this kind of our own little L.A. bike film festival because there is the BFF and other things that happen, but Los Angeles really doesn’t have its own niche bike film scene and i think it’s there.”

The screening kind of reminded us of that scene from Gremlins where all the monsters are going crazy in the theater. Don’t feed Midnight Ridazz after Midnight. And whatever you do, don’t get them wet.

Pics by Allaudin Hightower. See more on TRAFIK’s FLICKR

And just in case you missed it, here’s the trailer:

To Live & Ride in L.A. just received a great write-up on BikeMinimalism for their 2011 year-in-review article. We definitely made a splash in 2011, becoming the #1 Sports movie downloaded on iTunes and releasing in 16 countries across the globe. Stay tuned, there is more to come from TRAFIK as Global Fixed Gear Culture reaches new heights!

Read the full article HERE…

To Live & Ride in L.A. collectors edition DVD is available HERE! With over 40 minutes of Bonus Features, a glossy insert and original artwork, the DVD now ships with a TRAFIK vinyl cut decal and spoke card. Get yours today!

Come out to Kushtown’s New Year’s Pre-party tonight. Apart from partying, they are also throwing a race; Two full laps around Kenneth Hahn Park – that sh*t is no joke! For the winner we will be giving out a prize pack that includes some of our gear, our new burner bottle, Skully lights by X-Fire, Aerospoke shirts, and other cool prizes! We’re also doing a Oury Grip toss-out! Get those Oury Grips!

Also sponsoring the race are our friends from El Maestro Bicycle Shop, Pure Fix Cycles, Store 13, and Last Lyfe(If they had a site, we’d link them too – lagging it!).

Check them all out and give them a like!

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This weeks #BIKEFAIL contest winner was Alif from Malaysia. His post held it down since Day-1 of the contest with 180 Likes!

Here’s the vid that made it happen:

That quick post helped him win our custom-designed, limited-edition water-bottle/sticker-pack! Also included in the prize pack is a copy of To Live and Ride in L.A., a hip-pouch and foot-straps from Famli, lights by Skully, a TRAFIK tee, and of course lots of stickers!

Second runner up was L.A.’s very own, Sean Martin:

Sean will be receiving our water-bottle/sticker-pack!

Big thanks to everyone who participated! Till next one!

WTF! Somebody up in Portland is looking for a true street beat down pulling stunts like this. A recent article from Bike Portland.org talks about a mysterious bike hater who is throwing down tack strips in bike lanes. He (or She if she’s a real bitch!) camouflaged the strips using tar paper and secures them to the pavement with sticky tar.

Good thing some observant cyclists saw what was up and took action. The rider, Jeremy Dunn, commented:

– “We had our heads up and avoided it because it looked like refuse, but we came across another rider about a mile down the road who had mysteriously double flatted.”

One flat sucks, but double? Don’t let this happen to you. If you see anything like this in your city, make sure to let people know. Better yet, if you can get a picture of the perp, post it up so we can make an old school WANTED posted.

-Ride Safe-

when it comes to cycling… great edit dude, keep it up!

saw it on Prolls

Indonesia in the house! Loving the skids with the brake, yo!

This is pretty wild.

Saw it on Milano Fixed

Time to get silly!

Here we have Tony fast of Bootleg Sessions fame getting his serious cycling on with his Fyxo Kit. Bunny hop bar spins look so good in lycra.