This still trips me the f#%k out...

Joel Weston from MACAFRAMA on Vimeo.

Bicycle Film Festival Miami!

Those of you that attended BFF Orlando know that this

is a fantastic time. For those that missed out, BFF is

making one last stop on the 2009 tour to MIAMI!

Pack a car full of friends, take the train, ride your bike!

Volunteers needed!
Click HERE to
volunteer for the Miami BFF

THURSDAY DECEMBER 10
10PM | SPRINT RACE AND PARTY

Loose Cannons: BFF Edition! - 9 Mile
Sprint Race
Race Starts at SOFLO Skate & Bike Shop -
3301 Grand Avenue (Coconut Grove)
Race Ends at BFF Opening Party
The News Lounge - 5580 NE 4th Court

DJ Maneuvers

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FRIDAY DECEMBER 11
7PM | RECEPTION, GROUP RIDE AND GOLDSPRINTS

7:00PM - RECEPTION with
projections at Keirin Cycles - 235 A 9th Street (Miami Beach)
9:00PM - GROUP RIDE from
reception to Goldsprints Party
10:00PM - GOLDSPRINTS PARTY
The American Legion - 6445
NE 7th Avenue (1 block east of Biscayne Blvd)

Brought to you by Keirin Cycles
DJ El Capitan
Performance by BFGF

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SATURDAY DECEMBER 12
2PM | BFF MIAMI ALLEYCAT, BIKE MOVIES AND AFTER PARTY

BFF MIAMI ALLEYCAT

2:00PM - Registration $5
3:00PM - Race
Start: Government Center - 101 NW First Street
End: Colony Theater - 1040 Lincoln Road (Lenox/Lincoln)

BIKE MOVIES
5:00PM | PROGRAM 1 -
Tour des Legendes
7:00PM | PROGRAM 2 -
Where Are You Go
9:00PM | PROGRAM 3 -
Urban Bike Shorts

Admission price per program is $10.00.
Order your tickets online before they sell out!

You can save a few dollars by purchasing a BFF Miami
Festival Pass which will admit you to all 3 Bicycle Film Festival
screenings.
BUY TICKETS

FREE bicycle valet at screenings by Green Mobility Network

AFTER PARTY
Group ride to party leaves after the last screening
Presented by POPLIFE

10:00PM - Electric Pickle - 2826
North Miami Avenue
DJ Treasure Fingers
Admission FREE for BFF attendees

Im in Miami trick.

<3

Just realized...

we hit a few milestones! For starters we just hit our 2 year anniversary at the beginning of the month. We also just hit 100 followers. Nice!

Big up and thanks for tuning in! Lots of things coming up in 2010!

SE COMPLETES ARE IN AT ACE METRIC!

Yes, all caps... that's how stoked I am to get these in... and just in time for the Black Friday Sale: 10% off everything in the store!






Here's the breakdown:
Draft (Single Speed) $290
Draft Lite (Fixed Gear/Single Speed) $360
Lager (Cr-Mo frame/fork, Fixed Gear/Single Speed) $650
Premium Brew *not pictured*(Lugged Cr-Mo Frame/Fork, Sugino Messenger crankset, Fixed/Single) $1150
DC x PK Ripper Fixed Gear (Fixed/Fixed rear hub) $1000

FRANK-O-PHILE / VELO-STYLE

Sydney Australia artist Will French performing his installation entitled Frank-O-Phile/Velo-Style.

Seen on Monster Children.

The Revival - Orlando Screening - Dec 5th, 2009

When: Dec 5th
Where: Ace Metric - 1313 Sligh Blvd Orl FL 32806
Time: 8:30
Entry: Free!

We will also be doing a screening of Antimos mini documentary Bicycles Are Our Friends before the screening of The Revival. Also, Ace Metric will be doing a raffle of Mishka gear and from what Blackshaw tells me, there are some serious goodies in that box. Don't sleep and hope to see you out!

TODAY!

Defense of the Dark Arts Alley Cat - 11.22.09

Defense Against the Dark Arts Alleycat
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Meet Up: Platform 9 3/4 (train tracks near Ethos)
[1145 Alden Rd
Orlando, FL 32804]
Registration: 2:00pm
Race: 3:30pm
Entry Fee: $5

More info at the Orange Juice Collective Blog...

"your girlfriend is dressed just like me..."

All You Haters (Suck My Balls) from nixbros on Vimeo.

If you're offended, perhaps it hit too close to home?

Thnx Andrew! :)

Spokescouncil Alley Cat

Saturday Nov 14th, get more info here!

Ace Metric Cat+Comp+Party

Ladies and gentleman in attendance, sponsors, and venues, thank you! Sunday's event went off without a hitch. Here are the results as well as some notes.

Alley Cat:
For an eleven mile race I know it was pretty challenging. Mama Nature helped with some serious wind.

1st Place: Anthony P (Orlando)
2nd Place: Girogio T (Orlando)
3rd Place: Michael Q (Orlando)

1st Female: Jenny W (Miami)

1st Out of Town: Mike P (Ft. Lauderdale)*
*4th Place overall

Trick Comp:

1st Place: Ryan H (Orlando)
2nd Place: Gabe C (Miami)
3rd Place: Ronnie G (Orlando)

Honorable Mention: Mike Lilly (Tallahassee), GL, and Newberry (bank to bank gap and quarter pipe transfer to ditch on a 12 speed was insane!)

After Party:

SKY SIXTY is one of my favorite venues downtown and it was rad to have the place to ourselves. The beer was flowing, TYBO and Kittybat were killin it on the ones and twos, Ben and Brandon were slangin shots and liquor drinks, and I think everyone in the club got a little tipsy. Open air on the rooftop, beautiful Florida Autumn weather, good tunes, good vibes, and good folks all added up to the perfect ending to the day. Oh yeah, did I mention the hour long raffle. Prizes a plenty but the race winner, Anthony P, walked away with the grand prize, the front track Aerospoke wheel.

*Johnny, Sarah, and anyone who took photos, please send me links! Thanks!

A big thank you!

To all those that came out and raced, tricked, watched, cheered on and helped during yesterdays race, trick contest and after party. The support was truly appreciated and its good to see everyone come together and have a good time doing something we all love. Hang tight, Blackshaw will be posting the results of the Race and Trick Comp along with other relevant information from yesterdays proceedings. Also, if you have any pictures from yesterday, hit us up and we'll link to them. Lets keep this positive momentum going!

BTW, I heard a lot of crazy talk last night about the judging at the Trick Comp; some of it damn near bordered on conspiracy theory shit. To shed a little light on how we judged this thing, variety, consistency & originality were the 3 main things we looked at. This isn't anything different than what most skate / bmx contests take in to consideration when judging a contest. There was a lot of impressive tricks thrown around yesterday but part of the scoring also has to take in to consideration whether or not the person lands the trick. In the end, the decision came down to who had original lines, the variety of tricks they did and how consistently they landed what they tried. The final decision was a very tough one due to the different styles the top 4 showed but in the end we felt our decision was the just one based on the criteria we worked with. This doesn't mean one style is better than the other but rather on this day, luck of the draw had one person riding better overall. Feel free to discuss this with me next time you see me out. I'm more than down to talk about how I scored it and how I came to my final decision on the top 3. And if we disagree; fuck it, then we'll agree to disagree and have a beer in the process...


Keep pedalin'!

STEPPIN' IT UP IN THE SUNSHINE STATE!

photo credit: James Covington
I'll be getting a couple sequence shots emailed to me later this afternoon but I figured i'd post a few before I left to go out of town. A few of us got together at MESH skatepark to try something new and ended up having a blast. Hope to see some of you every wednesday till the park closes its door for good at the end of the month. It's been a wonderful park to skaters, and bike kids alike... so lets enjoy it while we can. Cheers!!!!

-Furoche!

Grand Prize for Sunday's Raffle...

1 Areospoke Front Track Wheel.



Yep, that's right. Did I mention that raffle tickets are only $2? There will be many other awesome prizes to be raffled off. Don't sleep.

Bicycle Defense Kit

Forwarded to me by a friend, kind of funny actually. Contains a few of the following "goodies":

• Issue "citizen citations" with official-ish tickets.
• Label offending vehicles with an "I was a jerk to a cyclist" sticker.
• Introduce the risk of paint damage with a Jolly Rancher.
• Make cars stink worse than their exhaust with a carefully-placed stink bomb.

And it all fits in an Altoids can. Get a full run down on the kit here.

Flier V.2

Volunteers!

I need about 10+ volunteers to work the checkpoints for Sunday's Alley Cat. Please contact me (ace.metric@gmail.com) if you can help. All volunteers will get free cover to the party at Sky 60.


Here you see a take on the flier by Dirty John (of Mother Falcon).