MASH 2015 VIDEO RENTAL AVAILABLE NOW Jan 6, 2016 Categories: MASH, Video 0 Comment For 2016, we wanted to offer a streaming service for the full length video. If you purchase the book/video, you own the movie. Shipping the book around the world can be costly. Now you can rent the movie for $5.00 on Vimeo. It is an HD file, with a 24 hour rental period. Enjoy! RENT MASH SF 2015 NOW!
CHAS CHRISTIANSEN X MASH 10 YEAR Jan 6, 2016 Categories: Cinelli, MASH 0 Comment Fall 2015 created so many memories for us, as we traveled, and set up events to share the new book and video release. Once we were back on the ground, the Cinelli MASH 10 year Parallax frames arrived at our shop. This frame is really special for the team. It is 100% their input for the geometry. Garrett Chow designed the art work for all of the 10 year pieces, with the frame being the crown jewel. Chas had been planning his build for months, getting all of the components lined up. He is supported by Zipp, so they custom drilled him a set of 32 hole rims and laced them to the Phil Wood MASH hubs. The build is finished with Izumi, MKS, Cadence, Continental, Newbaum’s, and San Marco. For all of the effort that went into 2015, it is really powerful to see a race machine like this live on for years to come. TCB #3: 99 of these frame sets where produced by Cinelli. The first 10 went to the team. MASH has #1, Garrett has #2, and Chas has #3.
DFL 12-26-2015 Dec 28, 2015 Categories: Cyclocross, MASH, Photo, San Francisco 0 Comment DFL is the best way to wind down the Cyclocross season, as well as burn off some holiday dinner. Celebrating their 21st year hosting these open corse cross races. One category, and if you wear a dress, you race for free. Enclosed are some details from a perfect morning in Golden Gate Park. 12-26-2015
MASH SHOP SCREENING: CREATE FOLLY Dec 8, 2015 Categories: alleycat, MASH, Photo, San Francisco 0 Comment Last Friday night we kicked off the bike shop level screenings of the new video, with an alleycat, book signing, and a screening of the video included with the book. Matt and Kyle from Create Folly stopped by, and shared some moments from the night. Rob Ward won the alleycat geared, Sean won first fixed. Check in for more details.
YASHICA T4 / TMAX400 LONDON-BERLIN-TOKYO-SEOUL Nov 18, 2015 Categories: alleycat, Group Ride, MASH, Photo 0 Comment While traveling last month, I shot a roll of 36 TMAX400, and just picked up the prints. Enclosed are some details from London, Berlin, Tokyo, and Seoul. Duke London Alleycat House of Vans London Flea market Kid crash at a pump track Evan Brick Lane Keirin Berlin Michelle and Mika Treptow Small Skatepark Tokyo Dylan in the rain Wakako and Toshi at Lug Group Ride Bike Pile Marco Art Show Chas Walton Brakeless Blue Lug In Seoul with Hacheon and Erica Eddy Vans MM
Santa Rosa Cup 2015 Nov 16, 2015 Categories: Cyclocross, MASH, Photo 0 Comment Last Friday night, some of the CX team headed north to race in the Santa Rosa Cup. A 3 day series that consisted of a night race, a reverse day race, and the third event on a fresh course, after some fresh rain. These moments where captured at the first night race. Bike Monkey has grown to support these fun races, and we are grateful for their efforts. Chelsea, Al, Eddy, Rainier, Dylan, and Walton came out, and put in work. Walton won the series for the Elite Men’s A’s. Chelsea took 3rd for the Elite Women’s A’s. Enclosed are some details from Friday night. Cross weather is here. The wide open sight lines meant no chase was ever really over. These guys actually smacked racers in the head in an unpredictable way. This corner was velcro at the beginning then got worked looser and looser, forcing riders to rethink their lines. Hops. Empty kegs created a maze of confusion with smoke, laser beams and cranked up music. Bike party. Nearly all of the night’s races took place after dark and the hecklers were out in force in every corner. Line it up. Stay loose. Send it. Get after it. The fast track let racers really cook the corners. Bike Monkey organized an amazing event and positive vibes carried through the weekend. Walton and Gavin battled lap after lap.Cameron J. Moose.Holeshot vibes. Braaap-braaap-braaap.Solved the maze. The Walt and Hoppin Haley. This format was a huge hit! Let’s do it again.
BAY AREA CX: KYLE EMERY PECK Nov 13, 2015 Categories: Cyclocross, MASH, Photo 0 Comment Cubby has been smashing in the SS B’s this season, and between races, he has been shooting some film for a CX zine. Enclosed are some highlights of our team racing that Northern California sand this season. Thanks for sharing!
MASH JAPAN PREMIERE: N.B. Oct 26, 2015 Categories: alleycat, MASH, News, Photo 0 Comment We are back in San Francisco after touring Japan and Korea for events last week. With a few days to get acclimated, we are finding fun photo sets from these trips, and want to share them here. The first set comes from N.B. who works at Blue Lug, and took time to show us around while in Tokyo. With Hiro, the team had a weekend full of events, and a new city to explore for many. Enclosed are some of N.B.’s images from that weekend in Tokyo. We met at the airport on Wednesday, and celebrated Chas’s shorts birthday ever, as we flew forward a day, landing in Tokyo Thursday. Nine of us flew out from SF, bikes are built, and we explored, quickly mapping routes to the event spaces we would be using in the days to come. Open Distribution set up the Tokyo events, and we could not believe the details that went into this packed weekend. Friday, we met at the gallery, where a team was fast at work setting up a large photo show, and had flown the 10 year Cinelli Parallax from Italy to have on display. Riders where met with some photo/video press interviews. This was a new experience for many of them, and an indication of what the weekend ahead had to offer. The room filled up as the night ramped up. Many old friends we had med over the years, so so many new faces, excited to better understand what our group of friends/riders are into. Chas was greeted with a birthday cake, and some dudes got loose that night. Setting up the show This was the first time we had traveled with Matt and Eddy, and it was a blast for these guys to have time to explore the city together. We had sent hundreds of photos published in our new book to the organizers, and they in tern sent them to several bike shops and cafes. We did not realize this until we rolled to W-Base and found another full art show, with tons of artifacts from our premieres hosted in 2006 and 2007. Very inspiring for all of us to see the love and respect that came from Moto and his team. The next stop was another full display at See You Soon Shop. The guys all loved their designs and instantly bought gifts to bring home to friends. They had a wall of Polaroid 665 prints, and asked the guys to contribute to the prints. We learned there was a lottery to win tickets to the video screening. The venue seated 250, and the plan to show the new movie two nights in a row made it possible for most interested in checking it out. the following photos are a mix of Saturday and Sunday screenings, that offered a Q&A, as well as a warm introduction of the history of our project, translated. Martin and Kevin are old friends, and put in endless time to help make the new video strong. We are grateful for their efforts. On Sunday night, Dylan awarded the first women racer Mone from the alleycat from the night before. Garrett designed special jerseys, and Castelli produced them for winners of all the races that happened as we traveled. We are a very small project, and bike shop. To travel around the world, and share with others, what we love, was an incredible honor. Family photo Saturday night after the screening, Nicolas, and the 25LAS / Black Sox Bicycle Club hosted a large alleycat. 117 racers signed up, and set up for a late night point to point street race. This was the largest alleycat Tokyo had seen in six years. The pressure from police suppressed this community heavily, and we felt lucky so see so many racers come out, and take some fun risks together on this night. Nickolas Smoke is always a fun way to start these races, so it was a nice surprise to see these organizers make this dramatic start happen. The race finished at the cafe where the podium was awarded. Massa, a messenger from Cyclex was the winner on this night, upsetting Torizo, who has a long standing history of winning Tokyo alleycats. Sunday afternoon, a large group of riders met up to show the guys the Tokyo streets. The group was maybe 150 riders, so they split up into three smaller groups, and ran around, seeing sites, and finding as many times as possible to stop for ice cream. Mission accomplished. Group ride photos by Takuto Watanabe. We want to thank everyone for coming out, and the endless amount of support put out by all of the volunteers to make this a massive weekend in Tokyo. We all got on the plane, instantly missing new friendships made. It was a reminder to come back soon. Thank you!
MASH SAN FRANCISCO PREMIERE EVENT RECAP Oct 12, 2015 Categories: alleycat, MASH, MASH Frames, News, Photo 0 Comment When we started the 10 year project, it was tuff to see the light at the end of the tunnel, being it was by far the biggest project I have worked on in my adult career. I sat with Garrett and planned a ruff map of components including a large photo/design book showing the history of MASH, a full length new movie that shows where the level of riding has progressed to, street racing, where we come from, and where our passion still lives today, and space to show these photographs, design projects, and art from our friends over the years. Once we had this on paper, we dove into organizing 10 years of photographs, and design projects, and with Dylan’s help, we shaped up the 355 page book. The video was always being shot in the background, with no real deadline, or end goal beyond keep shooting. By creating a calendar to share all of these ideas, a premiere in San Francisco would be our first stop on what would become a world tour. On September 12th 2015, we shared with the locals, and travelers alike, what we love. Track bikes and their riders using the streets and roads of the Bay Area, to express their interconnection of these elements. This series of photographs show some details from that weekend in San Francisco. We are grateful to all of our friends who tirelessly helped us prepare, who hung artwork in the middle of the night, who worked checkpoints at races, or lost their voices screaming at a video projection, and who woke up the next morning to sweat out the previous nights celebration. We want to thank sponsors that contributed by supporting these riders with the hardware needed to make this video/book possible, and the added legs to travel it around the world. THANK YOU.
HOUSE OF VANS LONDON VIDEO Oct 5, 2015 Categories: MASH, News, Video 0 Comment House of Vans London put together a video showing some of the messenger games put on by local couriers while in London. The entire night was a blast. We are thankful for the support from the local community for setting up an awesome weekend!