To Live & Ride in L.A. just released on Hulu and has become one of the most popular sports movies on the site. So far the user reviews have been pretty lame tho. Now it’s time for some real riders to spice it up!

For the next week, we will be holding a contest to give-away a TRAFIK Burner Bottle (w/ extras) to the lucky fan who writes the “Best” review and posts it to HULU. (“Best” will be determined by a small focus group of stoned TRAFIK riders)

So follow these simple instructions to WIN!!!

1. Watch To Live & Ride in L.A. on HULU
2. Write a Review
3. Visit our blog new week to find out if you won!

Tips:
- Keep it Short
- Make us laugh
- Talk about fixed-gear
- Say something interesting

Good luck!

Thanks to everyone who came out on Sunday and appeared in the latest TRAFIK video shoot. LEEN killed it with the artwork, Jesus was there to rep Leader bike and Team Kagero, Tito & Geo got to stuntin’, the homies from Store 13 dropped by. Here are some of the behind-the-scenes pics, more on TRAFIK’s FLICKR. Pics by Allaudin Hightower.

Be on the lookout for the video to drop in the New Year.
Get an original Burner Bottle for FREE until the end of the year when you spend $25 or more at our SHOP.

Jesus shows off his track stand skills

Best way to deal with haters…

It’s Friday in L.A. and time for another street race. Get yer fixies lubed up and roll on over to Sunset and Western (OSH parking lot) for a 5 Checkpoint alley-cat that will determine the KING OF HOLLYWOOD (and Queen). TRAFIK crew will be there with prize bags for the winners and some special surprises for the crowd. Ladies are encouraged to come out. Win dat Christmas money $$$

Registration is at 8pm, race starts at 9pm SHARP! $5 entry fee, money goes to winners. This is a fixed only race, sorry roadies, go on a ride up the PCH or something.

Info from the FB Event page…

No route
No order
No cheating
5 check points
$5 bucks entry fee
First racer(s) with His/Her slip completely signed and back to the start wins
Winners take the cash and title of King & Queen of Hollywood
Fixed Only
Helmet is MANDATORY / Ride at your own risk!!!
Anyone under 18 needs to have a waiver signed by their parents. There will be waivers on site.

RACE START
5525 Sunset Boulevard
Hollywood, CA
90028

Registration: 8:00 PM

Race Starts: 9:00 PM SHARP

UK is not only home to Stonehenge, dragons, and double-decker buses but has one of the biggest fixed gear scenes in Europe.

We were stoked when To Live & Ride in L.A. premiered in London and Preston earlier this year. Now that it’s on UK iTunes, we hope the entire Kingdom will watch it (we’re talking to you Scotland!)

If you’re interested in how they do fixed gear “over there”, check out London’s bike blog THE FOOTDOWN, Another one @ FIXED GEAR LONDON, the riders from NINJACATS, or NEWCASTLE FIXED to see whats bubbling up with the Old English.

Not to forget our friends over at Deaf Pigeon for hosting a screening as well as the dope fixie mag FIXED AND WHAT that published a nice spread on the movie. Click on some of these links to see what’s good. Give it up for Global Fixed Gear Culture.

-TRAFIK

To Live & Ride in L.A. recently premiered in Riga, Latvia. Our friends across the way at MiiT sponsored the event and here are the pictures to prove it! Hope you guys enjoyed the show! If you want to order a DVD, it has 40 min of BONUS FEATURES and comes with stickers, spokecards and other good shit – and we ship to LATVIA! Holla.

Fixed Gear is popular in all corners of the world, and tomorrow our friends in LATVIA will be premiering To Live & Ride in L.A. in the capital of Riga. We had to Google map this one, located on the Baltic Sea between Estonia and Lithuania, Latvia is a former Soviet republic that re-gained its independence in 1991. Now they are the coolest Eastern Bloc country, evident in their choice of fixed gear movies! What goes on in Latvia??? – Read more after the jump…

We had a chance to talk to Andris from the fixed gear group MiiT. Here’s what he had to say about Latvian Fixed Gear…

What’s the fixed gear scene like in Latvia?

Miit: Fixed gear riders in Latvia especially in Riga significantly increased in the last two years. Before that there was a small group of less than 10 riders, today but it could be even 20 or 30 times more.
Of course most people ride in early spring and summer because of the warm days but there are a small groups of riders who ride even in winter when Riga is coated with a lot of snow – this is real fun to ride in winter.

Are there any popular Latvian Riders?
Now Latvian fixers can be proud of Toms Alsbergs who set a new world record and took a #1 place in RedBull minidrome in Glasgow. He also won in Manchester as well. Maybe you know Maris Strombergs – the first Olympic gold medalist in BMX, he comes form Latvia.

What is it like to ride in Riga?
Riga is flat and full of cars. Lots of car drivers usually ignore cyclists and you always have to watch out for them but every ride gives you some good dose of adrenaline.

If a rider from USA visited Riga, where would you take him?
The first Monday of each month there is group race called Sanitary Monday (Sanitārā pirmdiena – in Latvian). Roller Racing and Bike Polo are also popular in Riga. Of course every fixed gear rider likes parties and we have a few good places in Riga to go including our own MiiT.

Do you want to shout out any shops, groups or riding crews?
There was couple of riders who in end of 2009 created the first Latvian fixed gear web page called FGR – Fixed Gear Riga www.fgr.lv (in Latvian only) currently there are more than 700 users. This is the main site about events and to buy and sell parts.
MiiT www.miit.lv (in Latvian only) is first bike cafe, shop, workshop created in Riga in summer of 2010. We are 3 owners, me, my brother and cousin. Me and my brother have raced in bmx for more than 15 years. We mostly work with fixies and single speed bikes now.

Thanks TRAFIK, you should come visit us someday. To Live & Ride in Riga!!

The biggest set of stairs in Europe was the stage for a race between a Messenger and a Pro Downhill MTB racer. Shot for the Dutch TV show “I Can Do That Too”…

It takes some balls to ride this set. Skip ahead to 4:30 in the video unless you want to try to understand Dutch. These stairs are in Belgium in case any of you want to try this on a fixed gear.

Our friends at Urban Velo just released a new issue featuring a run-down on the races that happened during Interbike. A well-written article by Davey Davis, it’s a must-read for anyone looking to attend next year and take part in some of the “Urban” events that happen after the convention closes for the night. The two big races this year were the MASH race and the KING of VEGAS race hosted by local-hero HERN and sponsored by TRAFIK among others.
Photos by Allaudin Hightower and Ace Boogie.

“Brad Adams, of Road Runner Bags took second in both races and credits the city’s insane urban emphasis on cars in creating a dicer race. “Vegas intersections are meant to hold a mass number cars and trying to break through that when there is bumper to bumper flow was unbelievable. I honestly could not tell you how I did it. It still boggles my mind.” In the end LA took the podium for men, with Edgar winning the race. There was much singing, dancing, dogtags, and In-N-Out burgers to be had.”

Read the Full article HERE!

Nick, this shit is scary man. Stay out from under bridges.