Our friend NASTY from Japan is finally coming out with his own signature frame. Nasty has been holding down the Tokyo FGFS scene for years now, glad they finally came around to hook him up proper. We met Nasty at Cyclemode, Tokyo a couple years back with the guys from W-Base. Super nice guy and a great rider. Check out his frame and video below.

Congo and Matt Spencer from Wolfdrawn put together this hot bike-check/workout video showing the interwebs that Congo means business. Nothing goes with American flag pants better than explosions. Great work guys.

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-

Grime added a fresh face to their team, Devon Lawson. Peep the new edit. Smoove moves and nice grinds Devon, looking forward to seeing more.

TRAFIK is stoked to be working with the guys from Tales From the Crit to throw a event in Singapore for the country’s premiere of To Live & Ride in L.A. . Based off the turn-out from their last event, this one should be a banger. More details coming. Check out how the doods from Singapore git down!

This is great! A British TV show that catches bike thieves. We need to make one of these in L.A, but with more beat downs.

Our buddies over in Germany have a jam packed weekend ahead of them! Suicycle is sponsoring a fixed gear freestyle contest with big money on the line. Check their site for more deets.

It was a hot and hazy Sunday when 14 teams of 4 riders each took off from Downtown Union station, racing to Muscle Beach in Venice. Nothing beats a summer alley-cat, and this shaped up to be a good one. This is what weekends are for. The winning team was not a surprise, the boys representing Wolfpack (Fabian Vasques,Hern, Shirtless Jon B, Ricardo Mejia) crossed the line 1st. See all the pics on TRAFIK’s FLICKR.

Local favorite Kustown Gorilla Squad has their plans for a podium finish derailed by LAPD. The team was pulled over right in DTLA for running a red and one of the riders was taken away in cuffs. WTF! Don’t worry homie, you’ll be out soon. The Team had a GO PRO camera running so we got all the action on tape! Stayed Tuned.

Racing with your friends on a summer weekend is what makes riding great. Every week in LA there is at least one race going on. But what about the rest of the world? We want to hear about races in your city too. Post up pics and info on our Facebook Wall or hit us with the details at info@TRAFIKLA.com. Ride Safe!

To Live & Ride in L.A. is making it’s South East Asian debut tonight in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. For those of you not familiar with the city, KL is one of the biggest metropolis’ in Asia – it’s the place with the tallest towers in the world. The have a young, but growing fixed gear community, with new shops, crews, and riders appearing on the radar weekly.

One of the crews involved in the screening is RATSKL. Here is a short vid of them showing what it is to Live & Ride in Kuala Lumpur. Click on the pic.

Next week To Live & Ride is premiering in Indonesia, holding it down in SE Asia! Stay tuned.

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