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Mar19

708 Cycling Team Is Looking For Juniors

549867_437535816329785_2032109958_nOnce upon a time, St. Louis had a few groups of bicycle messengers……

A few years back Kurt Fletcher took his 20 years of messenger experience and started a company by the name of 708 Cycling. His various lines of cycling-specific clothing and soft goods are all my by him, by hand, and locally. His new line should be out soon and available at Big Shark in the loop.

708 Cycling and Dressells pub has a killer cycling team who is currently looking to recruit some junior riders. Over the past few months, there has been more of a buzz in the competitive cycling community for a passing of the torch. This would be a great team for any youngsters with an interest in urban cycling and competitive cycling to learn from some of my personal favorite riders. And you know the kits will be rad. Shoot Kurt an email.

Mar17

Twilight Grand Prix

Cool video posted by MO Pro Cycling from last year’s Loop de Loop Grand Prix (aka “Midtown Grand Prix,” and “Twilight Grand Prix”) in the Delmar Loop. The 2013 race will be on May 10th this year. Catch the entire MO Pro Series May 10th-12th in Midtown, The Grove, and Dutchtown. You’ll find me there, fo sho.

Mar17

2012 Wolfpack Hustle LA Marathon Crash Race

The 2013 Wolfpack Hustle LA Marathon Crash Race happened just a few hours ago. Yesterday this video popped up on the web from last year’s race. Hopefully it won’t take that long for us to see some of this year’s footage.

The STL Marathon Crash Race is slated for October. Word on the street is that this will be a nationally recognized race with a stronger attendance from our LA, SF, SEA, CHI brothers and sisters. Stay tuned for details.

 

WOLFPACK MARATHON CRASH RACE 2012 from Warren Kommers on Vimeo.

Mar5

Engine 11 team video

I’ve been a supporter of Road Runner for a while now, and if you follow my blog this is no surprise. This is the first year that SpokedSTL has a cycling team, and I feel like this video sums up a lot of what is happening, not only with the SpokedSTL team, but with the entire cycling community here in St. Louis. We are all individuals who live individual lives. We all have our own jobs and hobbies outside of cycling, but when we grab those grips we become one and share a common goal. I couldn’t be happier with the team and with the progression of cycling in St. Louis. Anytime I’m asked to sum up the team, or local cycling in general, one word comes to mind. Family. I love you all.

Team Engine11 from Engine11 on Vimeo.

Feb27

Spoiler Alert

You all know how stoked I was to see the All-City Macho Man Disc from Frostbike. Well, All-City isn’t done there. For 2014 they will be dropping a new colorway for the Nature Boy Zona. If you are a bike-blog junky like me, you have already seen the red, white and blue fade pain job. From what I can tell, my best guess is that the pricing won’t change on the new model. Here is a previous post about the new Nature Boy.

This is Jeff from All-City's personal prototype build

This is Jeff from All-City’s personal prototype build

But wait! There’s more. Also for 2014, there will be a Zona Macho Man called the “Macho King.” As of now it is appears to only be available as a frame set, and no word on release dates or pricing yet.

2014 Macho King

2014 Macho King??

Feb25

All City Macho Mad disc in SpokedSTL orange

I’ve been talking about this pretty much non-stop for the past three days ever since a saw a teaser pic show up on Instagram. Frostbike was this past weekend which means most companies are too busy to create detailed posts about new releases. They have to watch out for “spoiler alerts.” Here is the official post on All City’s blog.

 

 

Feb20

Vans SpokedSTL #TeamShit

Spring time is coming, and that means it’s time to retire all of my Van’s that have been infected by my incurable swamp-foot. I did a little searching and found that Van’s already has a SpokedSTL Team issued shoe and they are one sale at the Journey’s online store for $30.

Scoop ‘em up here! I got one of each.
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Feb19

Team Seagal – The “non-team”

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You’ve probably never heard of Team Seagal, and they could care less. In fact, they are probably gonna kick my ass when they find out that I mentioned them in a blog post. Suck-it, Jerks.

These fools have been crushing gravel, chugging Nog, and translating Chinese Scrolls since you had to find someone to buy you beer. (Baby J, please disregard this last sentence.) But, I would say that they are mostly known for their “non-races,” long rides, Juggalos, triathalons, PBR, and code words.

Some Seagal rides are tough enough to make JPows quit racing and focus on his DJ career. The FeC-Kar is a gravel ride covering 100 miles throughout Iron and Reynolds Counties. The Death By Hills course is roughly 91 miles with about 7,888 feet of climbing.