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:

 
Since we released To Live & Ride in L.A. on International iTunes we’ve been hearing from riders from all across the world. We caught up with some of the guys from Switzerland to see what was up with fixed gear culture over there…

Bastien Raoux is a FGFS rider based out of Geneva & Fabian Wespe runs a shop outside the city. In a country that is serious about its cycling, fixed gear riding, especially FGFS, is starting to take hold…

TRAFIK: What’s up guys? What’s going on in the world of fixed gear in Switzerland?

Fabian:
There is definitely a growing fixed gear scene in Switzerland. Big towns like Bern, Zürich, and Geneva are where most of the riders are, but it’s more of an underground scene.

Bastien:
In Switzerland cycling is a religion and there are many riders who like to race on a fixed gear. In Geneva there are many fixed freestyle riders and a big group of racers too.

TRAFIK: Where would you take a rider visiting from a foreign country?

Bastien:
To ride and chill with freestyle fixed come to Geneva!! There are so many good spots and in 1 year we will have the newest big skate-park in the country. We are a big freestyle group in Geneva and all the day one of us is ready to ride.

Fabian:
Myself I live in the country and there is only me and my roommate on FGFS. If we wanna meet people we go to Geneva. The scene is very different depending on what city you are in, some places you are welcomed with open arms and in others it’s very hard to get in. But that is just my opinion. I am riding and selling FG-Bikes because its fun to ride. Thats all.

TRAFIK: What FGFS riders do you look to for inspiration?

Bastien:
I think i have 3 riders who inspire me. My favorite rider for the grind is of course Mike Shmitt, i like his nervous style. My other favorite is Tom Lamarche, this guy is awesome, i love his wall ride and many big 360′s. I think his last edit is the best of the freestyle scene. But for me the most crazy is my friend Simon Andraca (GOMOK), he is a rider who can ride everywhere, he is very complete (barspin, big gap, grind, wall ride) plus he’s a cool guy.

TRAFIK: Wanna shout out any local crews or websites?

Bastien:
Yeah, my riding crew is MILKYCE with Quentin Oddo, Marc Wuarin, Florian Ferrier and Me. Shout out to the Shred crew, with David, Laurent Pili, and Pepy Todesky. You have ONEGEAR (my sponsor) run by Fabian, the best website for FGFS in Switzerland. Also check out FixedGearGeneva on Facebook where everybody can come to speak about fixed gear.

TRAFIK: Thanks for chatting with us, any final comments?

Fabian:
I don’t speak for everyone here, but we don’t care if you’re a messenger, a fakenger or a hipster. We just love to build and ride our bikes an meet people with the same passion. Its all about having fun, not making a statement.

Bastien:
Check out some of our websites!

http://www.onegear.ch
http://milkycecrew.blogspot.com/
http://www.shredcrew.com/
http://ww.fixedgeargeneva.com
http://www.fixedgearswitzerland.ch

TRAFIK: Fa Sho! Remember to tell your friends to download To Live & Ride in L.A. on Swiss iTunes. Peace.

Redbull brought the mini-drome to the T-dot-O-dot for a day of Canadian swagger. Tom Mosher showed up and pulled a faceplant (check the vid) ouch. Those walls get steeper each time.

Trafik would like to thank all of you that made InterBike 2011 one for the books. This year, we were able to meet with a lot of the initial supporters of this project and we were able to show them our accolades and accomplishments, all thanks to our wonderful sponsors. We were able to tell them that our flick was the number one sports documentary on Itunes, (second documentary to Justin Beiber), the numerous premiers through out the globe and all the outstanding reviews that we’ve gotten on IMDB, Netflix and, Itunes. This year we were able to say a personal thank you to all the people that have supported us from the beginning. This post is for you guys!

Thomson, enough said. Thank you for all the support guys!

Knog keeps cyclist safe and reminds us to keep a smile on the face as well, by any means necessary.

Steve at the Chrome booth made us feel right at home.

Sock Guy reminding us that InterBike is not always about free stuff. Don’t be a shwag whore. Thanks for the pink armwarmers, west hollywood gets awfully cold this time of year. these purple and lavender arm warmes are the best!

If it wasn’t for GoPro, we wouldnt have been able to give you all the shots racers in action!

Velocity laced to anything is always a good idea!

Speaking of wheels, Aerospokes for extra streed cred.

Genuine Innovations kept us rolling around vegs! thanks y’all

Of course, the good people at Oury having an awesome time.

And thank you, White Lightening for us rolling all week. hell all summer!

In about an hour the biggest fixed gear Alleycat of Vegas is about to go down. The winners of this race are going to be really stoked on the prizes that our sponsors have been gracious enough to bless us with; Stems from Thomson, White Lightning lube, Knog Lights and Locks, Aerospoke swag, Kryptonite Locks and Accessories, Livery Design Gruppe Hats, Oury Grips, Skully Boom Boom Boxes, Polar Bottle bottles, gifts from Go Pro, Sock Guy socks, Endurance Conspiracy, Chrome, MonkeyLectric lights, Genuine Innovations co2 inflators and more from Trafik Pictures!

The victors of this race can bump their favorite The Carter IV track while they are cleaning their drive train. Or how about color match their lock with their frame using the Kryptonite Color Skins. Or how about upgrading their oem stem with a Thomson Elite stem. Even if you don’t win, its a great way to see the city of Vegas. I’m sure Hern’s got them going all over town. Stay tuned for the coverage.

Let’s roll Vagas.

AKA Bike Nerd Fest 2011!

AKA Bike Nerd Fest 2011! Trafik Pictures will be there all 3 days of the biggest cycling convention in the nation! Through out the duration we will be giving you live coverage from the convention via our Facebook and Twitter so make sure to follow and we’ll keep you abreast with all the new techonology and the antics of the Trafik Crew!

Bike nerd it up!

Yes, it’s that time again. The Bicycle Film Festival starts today in Los Angeles. It seems like it was yesterday that we packed The Downtown Independent Theater with 2 sold out shows for To Live & Ride In LA. Now here we are a year later and we are just as excited as last year. Los Angeles is making another impact on this years festival with Warren Komers’ Wolfpack Hustle’s The Crash Race as well as a vignette on the outlandish behavior of Los Angelopes. Holy Fuck its going to be a good one!!!

Tonight’s kick off party ‘Bikes Rock’ is at El Cid. Hope to see you all there buying us drinks!

If there is one thing i’m good at, its hangin’ out. What better reason to hang than Beers Bikes and Burgers. I accompanied my buddy to Riverside to hang out with the local color. Despite the 104 degree weather, Riverside’s bike community came out to embrace the summertime. Crooks acted as home base as cyclists participated in Sprint Races, Footdowns, as well as just a good ol’ fashioned cruise about town. When they got back they were blessed with free food from Manglers Meltdown. Riverside, thanks for letting me having us out there. I rate this hang time a 9 out of 10. Deduct one point because it was hot as heck.

The Stink Shoe Gaze Photo Contest was short and sweet. The first night was the quite before the storm. And then all of the sudden a surge on the following night. There was voting all the way down to the last minute. And it sure was a close one.

Here’s are our top 3 y’all!

The Stink Shoe Gaze Photo Contest Winners are as follows:

1st- Bryan Owens 134
Bryan ownes gets a small lead and ends up getting the win with his sick ‘no handed one footed track standing jammer.’ Shout out to Burd Phillips, one of the originators.

2nd- Mei Zhao 115
Representing Los Angeles! Mei is a huge supporter of what we do and is a really strong rider, especially for her age. She can hang with the big boys and girls and you can catch her on any of the fast rides that we have out here in LA.

3rd- Juan Vasquez 111
Representing The IE! I got mad love for this kid cause he’s got mad love for Chubby Boob! It’s always nice seeing a that spoke card.

Thanks to all that participated!

Bryan Owens gets a certificate for any shoe in the DVS catalog.

I believe these are the one’s he was looking out for.

Cinelli & DVS

Shout out to DVS Shoe Company for showing us some love!

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We just wanna say thanks to all of our new friends and our old ones on our FB page
We couldn’t be doing any of this without you.
You as our global community, make this worth while. Please tell your friends, add TL&R to netflix que, write reviews on every movie site you can think of, and lets get to the next level together! The best is yet to come. Thanks everyone!