You messy fixed gear riding cats, I don't care if you wash or match your sock. Just keep continuing to entertain me completely with your brave and unique fixed gear poetry in motion. I found an issue of Cog Magazine at the new Chrome Bag store 4th of July weekend, and when I went to Cog's site, watching the Macaframe trailer below made me grin. Yes, Aunt Lou, it is dangerous. But as Jenny Holtzer observed in her 1983-1985 Survival writings: "Finding extreme pleasure will make you a better person if you're careful about what thrills you." I am still saving that t-shirt with one-line Holzer truisms.
The Macaframe video site has other really short film trailers that marry the two-wheeled grace and balance of fixed gear urban riding to evocative music. Pretty in my ears and pretty on my eyes. (Can you Macaframe guys light some candles, have a seance, and channel some of your image-to-music and machine-to-movement intuitiveness to the Discovery Channel show, How It's Made. Help them to help themselves.)
If you ride any type of bike in San Francisco, check out the short fixed gear video clips. And if you love all things fixed gear, click through Cog Magazine. Print copies of Cog were shipped yesterday. There is no charge for the magazine. It is completely free if you buy anything from the Wheelgirl bike shop. But you can subscribe if you like by visiting their site. Suggestion: Work up to difficult tricks if you are new to fixie trick riding. Gifted fixsters are usually happy to share their tips for ways to keep the blood and bones on the inside of your skin.
MACAFRAMA Trailer from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.
