The bike weldshop clean up 1 was replaced by cleanings for a SLC Bike Collective media appearance. Not this time...
Come out and help us clean the Bike Weldshop Space.
6PM
SLC Bike Collective.
event info.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Bike WeldShop Clean Up 2.
The bike weldshop clean up 1 was replaced by cleanings for a SLC Bike Collective media appearance. Not this time...
Come out and help us clean the Bike Weldshop Space.
6PM
SLC Bike Collective.
event info.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Sunday, September 21, 2008
We be Famous Pirates!
The Deseret News wrote an article on our Pirate Gathering, and gave a plug to the Freak Bike Shop! Here be the article in yesterday's paper! Hooray!
Come down to the collective on monday and clean up the back room to make way for the new Freak bike capital of the city!
Come down to the collective on monday and clean up the back room to make way for the new Freak bike capital of the city!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Ride Like A Pirate Day 2008 Event Video
photography: Zoe.
compilation: Zed.
thank you to everyone that participated.
i am off to D.C. for a week to visit family, but while away, feel free to help out on the Bike Weld Shop Clean Up on Monday @ the Bike Collective @ 6p. We are still taking donations. The donation bar will be back up when I get back. Or you can give them to Davey or me at any time.
Now, on with the video:
compilation: Zed.
thank you to everyone that participated.
i am off to D.C. for a week to visit family, but while away, feel free to help out on the Bike Weld Shop Clean Up on Monday @ the Bike Collective @ 6p. We are still taking donations. The donation bar will be back up when I get back. Or you can give them to Davey or me at any time.
Now, on with the video:
Friday, September 19, 2008
YARRR! Today Be The Ride Like A Pirate Day 09x19 5:30p Liberty Park! Ride At Own R!sk
Ride Like A Pirate Day Blog
GCal Event Information
Flier
Teaser Video-Cap'n Zed Barbosa
*an event to raise money for the salt lake city bicycle collective welding shop. $5 donation suggested.
***Featured on International Talk Like A Pirate Day -> Around the world, by region: -> North America -> UTAH->((next to the
, denoting Events supportin' good causes))***Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Powder Coat that frame (or whatever) for CHEAP!
So want to get your frame powder coated for cheap? Tyler and I use this guy who does it out of his house (GREAT QUALITY) called... ironically enough... Pirate Powder Works
I got a frame and a fork painted for $65 AND they do clear coats. That way if you paint your bike yourself they can clear coat over it to make your paint job last a little longer. We are really happy with their work!
You don't have to buy the paint. Their catalog of colors is here: ROSY's Colors
Email the guy at sean@piratepowderworks.com for pricing and more info. He sent tyler and I a 15% off coupon so... maybe he'll send you one too?
GO FOR IT!
And spread the word. This is, so far, the cheapest place to get something powder coated in the valley.
-Chelsea
Monday, September 15, 2008
Tonight! THE FULL MOON RIDE.
calling all the freaks that dwell deep inside of us all!
all kinds of freaky things and people come out on a full moon!
O.H.F.U.C. bc is hosting a full moon bike ride!
calling all freak bikes to prowl the streets of the big SLC!
don't have a freak bike? DOESN'T MATTER!
dress up your bike or dress up yourself!
on 9/15 Mon. @ 9:15pm the freaks claim the salty streets for their own!
we all will gather at sugarhouse coffee.
all kinds of freaky things and people come out on a full moon!
O.H.F.U.C. bc is hosting a full moon bike ride!
calling all freak bikes to prowl the streets of the big SLC!
don't have a freak bike? DOESN'T MATTER!
dress up your bike or dress up yourself!
on 9/15 Mon. @ 9:15pm the freaks claim the salty streets for their own!
we all will gather at sugarhouse coffee.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Announcing the PUSSY CAT
Be you strong of spirit and female of gender? Then come to SLC's first ever (as long as I can remember) Girl's Alleycat thrown by Patrick B!
PUSSY CAT
7 PM on Friday, Oct 3rd in the Gallivan
Come let the boys dote on you at each stop and tear it up!
Bring $5
Yo' Bike
... and yo' Bootay.
(Anyhorny guys upstanding gentlemen interested in signing up for a stop, drop me a line with your email in the comments section.)
PUSSY CAT
7 PM on Friday, Oct 3rd in the Gallivan
Come let the boys dote on you at each stop and tear it up!
Bring $5
Yo' Bike
... and yo' Bootay.
(Any
Bicycle Poem/Rant
Hey guys. We had a really fun night ride after the Council of Doom premier, but I did a small thing that I wasn't really proud of: Instead of talking to an angry motorist I messed with their car. I went home afterwards and wrote an short story thingie about it, feel free to read it HERE.
I would be very interested to hear what people think.
Davey
I would be very interested to hear what people think.
Davey
Saturday, September 13, 2008
The Yeti Bike.
"This abominable bicycle was found in a SLC park near my home where homeless people often sleep. It has been there for five days unlocked and untouched. Judging from the great care taken to fur up this bike for the upcoming winter, I assume it has a loving owner. Perhaps the owner was high on LSD and wandered off into the hills searching for the elusive Yeti and forgot about the bike. Perhaps not. I decided to bring this bike home and do all I can to find it's loving owner. It sat out in the rain. The chain is rusted. If anyone knows the owner of this bike please let me know. My only hope is that it can be pleasantly reunited with it's master.
Thanks for you help,"
Michael
Council of Doom
Lets support all our friends in the bike community, especially Disorderly House. They've done a lot for us and are super rad!
Ride the Legacy Highway!
So after many long years of all the greenies, hippies, and progressives in the state rallying against the Legacy Highway as an unsound fix with massive ecological implications for a transportational addiction we have as car-bound suburbanite americans, the highway is finally opening to the public hommes de roue this Saturday in a celebratory gas binge!
http://www.udot.utah.gov/legacy/
But that doesn't happen until 5 pm.
What a better way to kick the whole thing off than to swarm it by bike?
There's some kind of money raising event going on in the morning, but
Let's show up in force, have a fun ride, and make faces at all the cars.
Critical Mass on a freeway, anyone?
To keep things clear, this is a Legitimate sponsored-by-the-city type of event. You may ride your bike and may not even be arrested! Awesome!
http://www.udot.utah.gov/legacy/
But that doesn't happen until 5 pm.
What a better way to kick the whole thing off than to swarm it by bike?
There's some kind of money raising event going on in the morning, but
FROM 12 UNTIL 2 THERE WILL BE AN OPEN RIDE ON THE LEGACY HIGHWAY THIS SATURDAY
Let's show up in force, have a fun ride, and make faces at all the cars.
Critical Mass on a freeway, anyone?
To keep things clear, this is a Legitimate sponsored-by-the-city type of event. You may ride your bike and may not even be arrested! Awesome!
Friday, September 12, 2008
BlackOut Bicycle Ride This Friday 10p @ Gallivan - TONIGHT!
I rode half of the Blackout ((gallivan plaza->gateway->3rd north->capitol->gravity hill->11th ave->Virginia street to the UofU)) in about 37 minutes. The toughest part was the going on 3rd North to the Capitol, but that only took 5 minutes - just a very intense 5 minutes of climbing. Therefore, I recommend:
A fast bike with gears.
The entire run should last no more than an hour and half.
...and after that first hill, its not that tough. this is what inspired this blackout. That and I figure this will give Tom a good bicycle boot kick to remember all of us in SLC without killing us.. too much.
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Coming This Saturday... Council of Doom Movie Premier
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
TRAX will yank seats to make room for bikes
UTA will yank a bench seat at end of each light-rail car
By Brandon Loomis
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated:09/09/2008 06:48:49 AM MDT
TRAX rail cars are crammed with bicycles by the time they get
downtown in Salt Lake City on weekday mornings - four and five at
each end, where signs warn against exceeding two.
read more..
Monday, September 8, 2008
the freaks come out at night!
all kinds of freaky things and people come out on a full moon!
O.H.F.U.C. bc is hosting a full moon bike ride!
calling all freak bikes to prowl the streets of the big SLC!
don't have a freak bike? DOESN'T MATTER!
dress up your bike or dress up yourself!
on 9/15 Mon. @ 9:15 the freaks claim the salty streets for their own!
Sunday, September 7, 2008
Bicycle Chair Pulling in SLC: An idea Ripped off From Arrested Development.
What it was ripped off @ 1:11 except he moves a desk chair too..
video by ebot. first bike through was k on ebot's tallie.
-zed
Friday, September 5, 2008
Making Tall Bikes, Printing Tall Bikes.
MAKING TALL BIKES.
I recently spoke to Jonathan and we may be able to put the SLC Bike Chop Shop just west of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. This would mean you can potentially weld a frame, and then go the front and fix it. It also means a great cost reduction as a whole, and a more community oriented environment. It would involve a lot of work, and still would need a lot of money to make it work.
The big fund raiser you should help us with is going to be on the 19th of Sept., Ride Like A Pirate Day
A $5 donation is suggested - but pay what you can. Of course on saltcycle.com, you can contribute funds at any time by clicking the donate button.
PRINTING TALL BIKES.
Our own awesome golden rim fixie'd Chelsea did a feature SLUG article on Tall Bikes! Enjoy:
(Photo: Sam Milianta)
The Chain Reaction
by Chelsea Babbish
When it comes to the freak bike/mutant bike/franken bike genre, tall bikes are king. A freak bike is any bicycle that isn’t a normal bicycle and was built for fun. Most commonly they are made from recycled bicycle parts and include swing bikes, tall bikes and choppers to name just a few. Lately tall bike sightings in Salt Lake City are becoming more frequent.
Tall bikes date back to the late 1800s. The most famous model, the Giraffe Lamplighter’s bicycle, was built in 1898 by Record Manufacturing Company. Its seat was over seven feet tall, and was used daily by lamplighters to light gas street lamps in Chicago and New York City. From the early 1900s up to the early 1970s, tall bikes were common in many large cities in the USA and Europe. In these places the tall bike was used in parades, circuses and even for casual uses and speed. The actual production on tall bikes seemed to fizzle out shortly after gas lamps were replaced with electric ones and the smaller modern bicycle started to become more practical. In the 70s and 80s, tall bikes became something made at home for fun. As sleek new technology in bicycles became the norm, the tall bike became less common eventually to the point of practical extinction.
The tall bike’s recent popularity, however, was kick-started by the Black Label Bike Club in Minneapolis, Minn. Black Label, started by Jacob Houle and Per Hanson in 1992, was the first official outlaw bicycle club with their best known chapter in New York City. Their DIY tall bikes were an immediate hit with industrious and light-hearted cyclists around the country and spurred many other freak-bike clubs such as SCUL in Massachusetts, Rat Patrol in Chicago, Dead Baby Bikes in Seattle and C.h.u.n.k. 666 in Portland and New York City. This summer a group of freak-bike enthusiasts have been riding in organized rides right here in Salt Lake City.
Currently without a name of their own, but riding with others from the Salt Lake City Bipedal Brigade, this SLC group of freak bikers are just in it for the DIY fun. Kemmer Evans, a Sandy resident and pioneer of the SLC tall bike group, started building tall bikes for just that reason. "I think that something that is that much fun and doesn’t really cost anything will just keep catching on. The bikes are recycled and the welder is borrowed," he says.
Reasons for getting into tall bikes are similar across the board. "I had to be a part of it," says Mark Polichette, who moved to SLC for work and school. Polichette built his tall bike after meeting Evans and riding his. "After riding Kemmer’s bike and seeing the bikes he built I had to build one to show him up," he says. Emilio Hidalgo, a SLC local and more recent tall bike convert, got into riding tall bikes after Polichette let him ride his. "I was scared to ride it at first, but once I got it I didn’t want to stop," says Hidalgo. Earlier this summer they built a new tall bike together for Hidalgo and he hasn’t looked back. The chain reaction has just continued with Hidalgo. "When I let other people ride it they have fun and that’s the main thing. That’s what we do," he says. For Evans and the others, the DIY spirit involved in building tall bikes is a party all on its own. "There are so many ways you can pull from waste: exercise bikes, furniture… almost anything can work," says Evans. The basic tall bike is made by welding two or more bike frames together. "I used two mountain bike frames and kept most of the mountain bike components," says Hidalgo. Once the frames are attached, the drive train is extended to meet it’s new elevated demands. Hidalgo explains: "The chain is fixed to one gear, but it still has a free wheel." One of the greatest challenges of riding a tall bike is the fact that you can’t just put your foot down and stop for a period of time. Hidalgo has become a pro in the few months he’s had a tall bike. "To stop I just hop off, but to slow down I do have a front break." Once mounted, the tall bike rides remarkably like a normal bicycle, but the general public does not treat it like one.
"When I rode my tenspeed around people would honk at me, yell at me to get out of the way or tell me to ride on the sidewalk. When I’m riding my tall bike people actually cheer me on and give me the right of way," Hidalgo says. He, along with Polichette and many of the others, actually commute to work (sometimes over two miles daily) on tall bikes. They also ride in SLC cycling events and Hidalgo even entered an ally cat style bike race on his and didn’t come in last!
When he’s out riding, many people ask about Hidalgo’s bike and he enjoys explaining it. "When people ask about it and if they can ride it I completely stop and help them ride it. They’re always totally amazed." Evans says: "Sometimes people want a practical reason for riding a tall bike. I mean, there really isn’t one. It’s just about fun."
To ride with other freak bike enthusiasts and join in on the fun, keep an eye on http://www.saltcycle.com where most of the planned rides are posted.
edit: corrections have been made to 'Bipedal Brigade' and 'Emilio's' name at request of author.
I recently spoke to Jonathan and we may be able to put the SLC Bike Chop Shop just west of the Salt Lake City Bicycle Collective. This would mean you can potentially weld a frame, and then go the front and fix it. It also means a great cost reduction as a whole, and a more community oriented environment. It would involve a lot of work, and still would need a lot of money to make it work.
The big fund raiser you should help us with is going to be on the 19th of Sept., Ride Like A Pirate Day
A $5 donation is suggested - but pay what you can. Of course on saltcycle.com, you can contribute funds at any time by clicking the donate button.PRINTING TALL BIKES.
Our own awesome golden rim fixie'd Chelsea did a feature SLUG article on Tall Bikes! Enjoy:
(Photo: Sam Milianta)
The Chain Reaction
by Chelsea BabbishWhen it comes to the freak bike/mutant bike/franken bike genre, tall bikes are king. A freak bike is any bicycle that isn’t a normal bicycle and was built for fun. Most commonly they are made from recycled bicycle parts and include swing bikes, tall bikes and choppers to name just a few. Lately tall bike sightings in Salt Lake City are becoming more frequent.
Tall bikes date back to the late 1800s. The most famous model, the Giraffe Lamplighter’s bicycle, was built in 1898 by Record Manufacturing Company. Its seat was over seven feet tall, and was used daily by lamplighters to light gas street lamps in Chicago and New York City. From the early 1900s up to the early 1970s, tall bikes were common in many large cities in the USA and Europe. In these places the tall bike was used in parades, circuses and even for casual uses and speed. The actual production on tall bikes seemed to fizzle out shortly after gas lamps were replaced with electric ones and the smaller modern bicycle started to become more practical. In the 70s and 80s, tall bikes became something made at home for fun. As sleek new technology in bicycles became the norm, the tall bike became less common eventually to the point of practical extinction.
The tall bike’s recent popularity, however, was kick-started by the Black Label Bike Club in Minneapolis, Minn. Black Label, started by Jacob Houle and Per Hanson in 1992, was the first official outlaw bicycle club with their best known chapter in New York City. Their DIY tall bikes were an immediate hit with industrious and light-hearted cyclists around the country and spurred many other freak-bike clubs such as SCUL in Massachusetts, Rat Patrol in Chicago, Dead Baby Bikes in Seattle and C.h.u.n.k. 666 in Portland and New York City. This summer a group of freak-bike enthusiasts have been riding in organized rides right here in Salt Lake City.
Currently without a name of their own, but riding with others from the Salt Lake City Bipedal Brigade, this SLC group of freak bikers are just in it for the DIY fun. Kemmer Evans, a Sandy resident and pioneer of the SLC tall bike group, started building tall bikes for just that reason. "I think that something that is that much fun and doesn’t really cost anything will just keep catching on. The bikes are recycled and the welder is borrowed," he says.
Reasons for getting into tall bikes are similar across the board. "I had to be a part of it," says Mark Polichette, who moved to SLC for work and school. Polichette built his tall bike after meeting Evans and riding his. "After riding Kemmer’s bike and seeing the bikes he built I had to build one to show him up," he says. Emilio Hidalgo, a SLC local and more recent tall bike convert, got into riding tall bikes after Polichette let him ride his. "I was scared to ride it at first, but once I got it I didn’t want to stop," says Hidalgo. Earlier this summer they built a new tall bike together for Hidalgo and he hasn’t looked back. The chain reaction has just continued with Hidalgo. "When I let other people ride it they have fun and that’s the main thing. That’s what we do," he says. For Evans and the others, the DIY spirit involved in building tall bikes is a party all on its own. "There are so many ways you can pull from waste: exercise bikes, furniture… almost anything can work," says Evans. The basic tall bike is made by welding two or more bike frames together. "I used two mountain bike frames and kept most of the mountain bike components," says Hidalgo. Once the frames are attached, the drive train is extended to meet it’s new elevated demands. Hidalgo explains: "The chain is fixed to one gear, but it still has a free wheel." One of the greatest challenges of riding a tall bike is the fact that you can’t just put your foot down and stop for a period of time. Hidalgo has become a pro in the few months he’s had a tall bike. "To stop I just hop off, but to slow down I do have a front break." Once mounted, the tall bike rides remarkably like a normal bicycle, but the general public does not treat it like one.
"When I rode my tenspeed around people would honk at me, yell at me to get out of the way or tell me to ride on the sidewalk. When I’m riding my tall bike people actually cheer me on and give me the right of way," Hidalgo says. He, along with Polichette and many of the others, actually commute to work (sometimes over two miles daily) on tall bikes. They also ride in SLC cycling events and Hidalgo even entered an ally cat style bike race on his and didn’t come in last!
When he’s out riding, many people ask about Hidalgo’s bike and he enjoys explaining it. "When people ask about it and if they can ride it I completely stop and help them ride it. They’re always totally amazed." Evans says: "Sometimes people want a practical reason for riding a tall bike. I mean, there really isn’t one. It’s just about fun."
To ride with other freak bike enthusiasts and join in on the fun, keep an eye on http://www.saltcycle.com where most of the planned rides are posted.
edit: corrections have been made to 'Bipedal Brigade' and 'Emilio's' name at request of author.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
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