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!

Our friend Pnut was recently involved in a hit & run on his bike but never stops repping To Live & Ride in L.A.

Heal up quick homie!

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

West Covina is a long way to drive in L.A. traffic, but worth it to attend another ill event from Store 13 and Leader Bike that brought out all the homies from the IE. Bikes, cars, food trucks, girls, it was all there jammed in Store 13′s parking lot for TAB Tuesday.

Team Leader riders Michael Chacon and Jesus Lizama came thru to show off some of the new frames, Mike with his 2012 Hurricane and Jesus with his newly minted Kagero that had some heads turning. Mike is really getting out there, check out that swarm of riders getting autographs on their wheels, bikes, babies. Good looks Michael!

TRAFIK was stoked to see many of the riders rocking our decals, looks extremely clean on Leader’s 735 frame. Head over to TRAFIK’s Flickr (TRAFIKPIX), to see all the pics from the night. Also, if you get a chance to stop into Store 13 in West Covina OR Pasadena pick up a copy of To Live & Ride in L.A. or other TRAFIK gear. Thanks!

Thanksgiving is right around the corner, and so are the annual races to raise money for local food pantries. TRAFIK is happy to be a sponsor of the VCR RACE going down in L.A. tomorrow, we also reached out to help Arizona locals at State Bike with their Thanksgiving Throwdown, also happening on the 23rd.

As always, you know TRAFIK got ill with the prize bags…

You might win hardware from THOMSON, grips from OURY, hip bags and straps from FAMLI STRAPS, lube and bike maintenance EQ from WHITE LIGHTNING, lights from BOOKMAN, a flip-flop wheelset from PURE FIX, are we forgetting anything? Oh yeah…TRAFIK Apparel + To Live & Ride in L.A. DVD’s, spokecards, decals, the whole 9-yards.

But don’t just race for the prizes, your entrance fees will help feed needy families over the holidays. Come out and race, it’ll make you feel good!

-TRAFIK

Stoked. Beyond stoked. To Live & Ride in L.A. just became available on iTUNES in 14 countries across the globe! Now fixed-gear riders from AUSTRALIA to the UNITED KINGDOM can download or purchase To Live & Ride in L.A. from one of the biggest retailers in the world!

Only because of all the fan support did iTunes see a demand for films like this worldwide. Thanks to all the fans who have Downloaded the Movie, LIKED TRAFIK on Facebook, watched our videos, SHARED our posts and continue to support Global Fixed Gear Culture…THANK YOU!!!

TO LIVE & RIDE IN L.A. can now be found on iTunes in the following countries:

*In JAPAN through our friends at Champion Visions

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!!

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-

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!