If you don’t know Rudy Melo, from Leader Bike and The 5th Floor, you’re sleeping on sh*t. He’s one of the world’s most recognized fixed-gear riders. Flying down from London, UK, he came to LA to race in Wolfpack’s Marathon Crash Race. While in Los Angeles, Rudy chilled at TRAFIK HQ and rode around the city with Leader team and TRAFIK rider, Jesus Lizama. It was the perfect chance to show Rudy the streets of L.A. (Tried riding on the left side LOL), ride to some of our favorite spots, and talk about the ever-growing global fixed gear culture.

While talking to Rudy about the cycling culture in the U.K. and his site, The 5th floor, we realized that we were very similar minds – we share common goals and common ideas. We’re grateful to have met Rudy and it’s definitely the beginning of what’s going to be a long-lasting connection. Fixed gear is worldwide!

To see the full set of photos of Rudy and Jesus riding by Raquel Natalicchio, hit up the Flickr. You can click here, or here…. and also here.

Photo Credit: Raquel Natalicchio Photography. Hook her up with some Facebook likes!

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iTunes is running a promotion for To Live & Ride in L.A. – Now you can rent a digital copy of the movie to watch on long road trips, in the bathroom, on the metro, on a plane, wherever…for ONLY $.99 This is for a limited time only!

That’s right, we sold our soul to the ghost of Steve Jobs for Only $.99. Download it today and watch it on your computer or mobile device. Have you seen it on the new iPad retina display? Sick.

If you want the real deal DVD to own forever and sleep with at night, you can purchase it HERE. The Collector’s Edition DVD comes with 40 minutes of Bonus Features, decals and stickers, and dope box art and insert by Swank One.

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The Wolfpack Marathon CRASH RACE was an awesome success this weekend. Almost 1000 racers showed up for what was to be an epic night of parties, friends, and sweat. The rain looked pretty hectic for a minute, but by 3am it was clear and cool. Perfect racing weather.

Aside from the false start (some people near the front got excited and the entire herd followed), the race went off smooth. The lead pack even had a police escort! Thanks LAPD. Pushing to the finish line down San Vincente was long, dark and fast. That sketchy left to the finish led to some crashes.

The dogtags stayed in L.A! First-place fixed-gear went to Edgar from Long Beach, followed up by the velo champ James Zaldua and TRAFIK rider Henry Grijalva rounding out the podium at 3rd.

This was an epic event that showed what is possible when like-minded cyclists come together. TRAFIK was stoked to be involved – Big thanks to all the cyclist who came out and made this the biggest street race in the world. Special thanks to Wolfpack, Roadblock & Hern. See you guys at the Drag Race…coming soon…

See all the pics on the TRAFIK Flickr
 

****UPDATE****

Women’s Fixed Gear:
1st Kapri Gonzales (Arizona)
2nd Kelli Samuelson
3rd Becca Cohen

Women’s Geared
1st Jo Celso (1st Womens Overall) (San Diego)
2nd Sam Bell
3rd Lindsay Nelson
4th Jen Whalen

Men’s Fixed Gear
1st Edgar “Willo” Juarez (Long Beach)
2nd Scott Piercefield
3rd James Zaldua
4th Henry Grijalva
5th PNUT

Men’s Geared
1st Robbie Miranda (1st overall) (Chula Vista)
2nd Evan Stade
3rd Tim Mcgee
4th Fabian Vazquez
5th Dave Lettieri

Dead F*ckin’ Last
Tina Pham

Photos by Allaudin Hightower

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TRAFIK is proud to help organize the BIGGEST STREET RACE IN THE WORLD! It’s happening this weekend, the Wolfpack Marathon CRASH RACE. There are already almost 1400 people registered to race, with more bound to show up unannounced. CRAZY! You know what else is crazy? The TRAFIK SUPER PRIZE BAG that we have put together. We pulled out all the stops on this one, loads and loads of gear that you can win at the PRE-REGISTRATION PARTY on Saturday night. That’s right, someone is going to walk away with all this swag before the race even starts. Check it…

Drop bars from NITTO, A pair of shoes from DVS (your choice), THOMSON stem, a bike lock from KNOG, foot straps from FAMLI STRAPS, a watch from INSECT, LIVERY DESIGN GRUPPE tank top, socks from SOCK GUY, a Skully light from XFIRE, fixed gear hubs from MILWAUKEE BICYCLE CO., a year’s supply of lube from WHITE LIGHTNING, stencil caps from SWANK ONE, cycling necklace from UNION THE BRAND, a City Riding Cap from RAPHA, HE2 racing gloves & grips from ERGON,

PLUS + + + + + + + 

All the sweet gear from TRAFIK, a To Live & Ride in L.A. Collectors DVD, the TRAFIK Burner Bottle, the official TRAFIK Grey tee, decals for your bike, cell stickers and INTRODUCING our BRAND NEW tee shirt made specially for this Event…

The NEW “CATCH MY DRAFT” Tee…

This prize bag is nuts, over $800 worth of merch, it won’t even fit in the ERGON cycling backpack that comes with it. Man, someone is going to come up at the Pre-Registration Party.

But if you don’t win don’t worry, you can buy everything that TRAFIK sells at the party at reduced Race Day prices!

Show up at 7666 Melrose Ave. to pick up your number, see some cool bikes, and win, win, win. See you there!

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TRAFIK collabed with some of Leader Bike’s best fixed gear riders on a sick photo and video shoot last week. We met up with Michael Chacon, Nick Ramirez from San Diego, and Jesus Lizama from Leader’s Team Kagero. This photo of Mike clearing a 9 step while bar-spinning is only one of the sick pics from the day. Scroll down for a special Behind the Scenes video to see how we got this shot…

Shouts out to the Leader riders and Jamil Grey, SK, and Jamile Bard for helping us get some nice images for our ever evolving TRAFIK Shop. Ya’ll are gonna need to stay tuned for the video edit from that day, but in the meantime here is a special Behind the Scenes vid that shows Mike pulling off the stunt like “NBD”. I think we need to find bigger steps. You make it look too easy Mike.

Photography by Darin Rios

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Fixed-gear street racing is a small world, so some of you might recognize this local rider. He’s been tearing up the streets, kicking ass in LA alley-cats and pushing the game of everyone around him. TRAFIK is proud to welcome Henry Grigalva to the team:

He stopped by TRAFIK HQ today and we kicked it about training, hooked him up with some TRAFIK gear and gave him scientifically-formulated protein to bring out the beast. Henry’s part of a clan of racers known as G.S.S., and he’s currently sponsored by El Maestro’s Bicycle Shop in Downtown LA. You should definitely watch out for him at this year’s Wolfpack Hustle Marathon Crash Race! Welcome aboard Henry.

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Ouch, one of our fans was trying some FGFS maneuvers and ate shit. But TRAFIK will make your boo-boo all better. We sent out a TRAFIK prize pack to the homie to help him heal, and you can get one too…

If you’ve been injured, and want us to sooth the pain, post some of your injury pics to the TRAFIK Facebook. Bonus if you include a TRAFIK or TLR logo. Get your friends to LIKE your pic and we’ll send out a TRAFIK pack with some of our vinyl decals, TRAFIK cell stickers, and some other sponsored swag.

Check out the TRAFIK FACEBOOK:

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TL&R Rider Dylan “Fish & Chips” took a trip up north to Seattle and came away with this tight edit. Fish is one of the original westside FGFS riders in L.A., riding out of LA Brakeless. Check out his profile on our film main page…HERE.

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To Live & Ride in L.A. is about to make it’s Italian debut at an awesome event organized by our friends at REVELO , ARCIRAGAZZI and DC/FX

This is the first screening of the film in ITALY, one of the world’s cycling capitals. They didn’t hold anything back with this event, it’s going to be a crazy night with Gold Sprints, Live Music, and a screening of the #1 Fixed Gear Movie in the World. Did we mention COSMO PUSSY will be there? Only the coolest band in Italy. See the full blog post at www.DEADCITYFIXED.com

Like the movie? Buy the Collector’s Edition DVD with 40 minutes of Bonus Features – We ship WORLDWIDE!

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It’s going down on March 18th – the biggest street race of the year happening right in our backyard. TRAFIK is a proud sponsor of the 3rd annual WOLFPACK MARATHON CRASH RACE. This year is going to be the biggest race yet, with a pre-registration party the night of the race, a chance to win a $1000 frame from CINELLI, but most importantly — the opportunity to race through 26 miles of closed LA streets at 4 AM!

Register online at www.wolfpackhustle.com for your chance to win the Cinelli frame and pick up your race number during the party. This event is going to draw riders from all over, so register early to reserve your spot – oh, did we mention it’s FREE! Yup.

If you participated in this event before you know how much fun it is. Possibly the largest underground street race in the world, there will be AWESOME prizes for FIXED and ROAD, both Men’s and Women’s divisions. If you only do one race in your life, this is the one. See you there. 3.18.2012

See all the details here…

Wolfpack Hustle.

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