When it comes to bikes, for me it’s all about performance, tricked out DH bikes, dirt jumpers or solid BMX’s. I like going flat out, going everywhere and doing jumps and no dis-respect to guys who ride em as they must be pretty fun anyway, but you just cant do that properly on fixed gear bikes.

Whilst I can and do appreciate the simplicity and design of them when they are done well, fixed gear bikes just never cut it for me. Too much style over substance. If I wanted a minimal bike I would go the BMX route so at least i could do decent size  drops, jumps and bunny hops without breaking the wheels or frame. Jumping and tricks on fixed gears bikes just looks dumb to me. Sorry. They just aint made for that. The bikes do however often LOOk good, and that brings me to this site. Basically lots of tricked out fixed gear bikes and fairly untricked out chicas, but its pretty cool anyway. Just for looking. www.thefixfixfix.com/fix

Now this is some minimal shit I can dig. Mad skills:

15  second exposure with the 550d in salzburg the other night. I caught the tail end of the SUBSIDING PERSEIDS. Or maybe some UFO’s or something.

we watched a play, on a screen in the courtyard under the castle.

salzburger festspiele is on at the moment so it’s packed in SBZ.

it’s only a couple of mins to get above it all here though.

photo of a photo, love that color combo.

Via flickr..

My friend Benny’s girlfriend Claudia came to the park with us on the weekend and snuck around taking photos. Some of them came out pretty good. I’m in the turquoise shirt, Benny’s in Black.

Lots of superb photos from the Le Mans classic by Laurent Nivalle on his website here. As well as photography he is also extremely talented at 3d. Check out the cgi section on his site too.

Mattias Fredriksson takes some epic shots.

Had such a brilliant ride home again. Wish I had the goPro camera.

The kinderwagen is going!

..up above Mühlbach in Austria, an hour from Salzburg. So nice up there.

Bug on the brim

Wallrides the other way feel easier for some reason. Might explain why I ended up driving through a nettle bush after landing. It was really dark when we shot this, and in order to get a fast enough shutter I boosted the ISO to 3500 on the 550d, which made it a little grainy but I quite like the result.