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GREG B

SFX RIDE + STYLE

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SIMON ANDRACA

2MV

RED BULL

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David Pili tree tapPhoto: Florian Ferrier

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Oscar Khan one foot table

34 BIKES Classic

REGULARS 8 IN STRAPS.. Come out and play!

10 SICK RIDER INTERVIEW Gamok

65 HOT DATES Get ready for action

70 CREW SFX

44 Bike CHECK SE Us vs Them

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SOFB ONLINE MAG 3

CONTENTS

26 NC Trick Jam Felix

42 2MV fixed and hiphop

46 Ride + Style Red Bull

FEATURES

COVER

CONTENTS

56 ASPHALT Bikes

14 MICHAEL CHACON London calling

22 HERNE HILL Rudy Melo

Info_ Lunch of Fixed and What..Bingo game. http://www.fixedandwh.at/Congrats to Andy and team of FAW.. Photo: Mike Merkenschlager

Info_ 6 weeks from Anto accident which for I kind of feel responsable ..We try to shoot some doddy transfer and Anto parashoot himself in resul of that broken ankle.Just now last days of May he feel-strong enough to get back on bike.Idea behind trick .. sick but legite and dont kill yourself.. 180 x-up Done .. Clisol Bowl place to be, London

Come out and play!IN STRAPS..

2 Issue of SOFB was real blast and thanks to all of you for good word!I think natural that for this Issue of SOFB we go quite easy, take me some time to recover to.. Still some of the stuff you see here can make you go insane and yes we go hard again.Less Its more.. in this case less comps but more riders.. as well-less writing more photos!I’m stoked that again I meet so many people that are so in to fixed bikes. Siriusly this going like kind of epidemia all over world and to catch it you need to spin your legs.. easy then.Aaa Issue 4 will be sick im many ways just get yourself involve..

Keep it going!

Ride on!

Greg Falski

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Greg Falski

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CONTRIBUTORS

Diogo Maymonehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/maymone/

Mateusz Pieczkowww.pieczkopietras.comwww.flickr.com/photos/silesiafixed

Florian Ferrier-Gruschwww.ferrier.tumblr.comwww.fixedgeargeneva.blogspot.com

Alex Redux W.A.R.paris

Alex Le Cas-barré

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Looking for writers!Looking for photographers!Get involve!

Thanks to Family and friends, all crews and riders, organisers and advertis-ers.. will be not possible without all of you!

Inspirations this time spontanNEXT ISSUE OUT ON Thu 28 July 2011

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SIMON ANDRACA

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Simon Photo: Diogo Maymone

SIMON ANDRACA GAMOK

SICK RIDER INTERVIEW

INTERVIEW Simon “Gomok” Andraca

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Simon barspin and a 1.8, death or gloryPhoto: Alex Redux W.A.R.paris

Simon transfer, TT..Bright before he hurt himself and open his “undermouth”Photo: Alex Redux W.A.R.paris

INTERVIEW Simon “Gomok” Andraca

SOFB- What makes you so good at rid-ing fixed?

S-I think It’s mostly because of my bal-ance

SOFB- Tell us about the last two com-petitions you went to.

S- The west jam has been the biggest and the sickest contest I went too, under the portugese sun ! It was intense and mad fun, with crazy riders landing insane tricks, I did well with my bent frame , glad to finish third. and the trick trick boom was smaller, I didn’t have a frame so I didn’t wanted to compet, but mike schmitt let me used his GOAT bike (thanks to him, love this guy) so I finish third be-cause of a big gap followed by a landing on a rail, double pegs while that mike was shredin on the megaphone haha people rode hard that day, in the end it was pretty cool, I’m very impressed of the turning fixed gear is taking.

SOFB- Do you like to ride street or park more? Are you better at one more than the other?

S- I like both, It’s two totally different things, a park is a playground full of pos-sibilities, It makes you creative and push you to do beautiful lines. But in the same time, there is nothing better than riding on a perfect urban spot, sometimes it almost looks like it has been designed for riding, more than skateparksI think I could progress in parks, you have a bigger margin of error, things you’ll learn in park will help you out in the streets

SOFB- How do you get pumped to ride hard?

S- I feel like I would “be nothing without other riders”, it’s hard to push yourself on your own, and even more hard to get better if there isn’t any challenges or even opinions exchange

SOFB- How do you set up your pedals before you get to an obstacle?

S- I love huge gaps and cliff things, by the way we went mental with Oscar at Death or Glory with this kind of things, good souvenir, weirdly it something I like very much, halfway between danger and violence, the risk you takes ...

SOFB- You inspire a lots of new riders what you will say to them

S- I’m glad to see that, but i dont feel comfy about it, i don’t really know what i should tell them except that they should get mentally prepared to eat the pave-ment at every single meal, anyway it’s good to see the interest for the street fixed gear growing up

SOFB- How important is your crew? Do they get you stoked?

S- yeah definetly, without my crew UGH, I couldn’t have been able to progress during few months, I’ve been without a decent bike (broken frames), they enable me to keep progress, big up at renaud bambou and his disappeared sick rusty bike !

SOFB- What is the next of your pri-jects?

S- keep going on with the same ideas since it started, just to see how far it goes, travelling and meeting other riders in the world, and live day by day

SOFB- Could you please discibe your new frame.. .. how far you can push it?

S- my new frame is pretty sick, my last one snapped in Lisboa, and this one still didn’t broke, and I tryed hard to break it, but still alive, so it might means some-thing ! I can’t really talk about , we will keep the surprise I just would like to thanks Manuel from traffic !

SOFB- Tell as about your coming month. and where are you at the mo-ment?

S- tons of things, this month will go fast I think, I’m planning on a big weekend in london with my man Alex redux, just to check out this already famous new park, shred and chill with ninjacats, since a long time we want to come very bad, just ro ride left side ! there is also a contest at lille organised by my friends from NUCULT

SOFB- and last question what we can wish you?

S- to have a decent ridable bike with airs in my tires and quality drugs for again few years

Simon its another one of the most talented freestyle fixed gear riders. Last time I did see him at Trick Trick... Boom where he was shreding like a maniac.. latest news from Simon below!!

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Michael ChaconLondon Calling

MichaelPhoto: Diogo Maymone

Michael ChaconLondon Calling

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Good times Hector Michael and Jordan

Michael great technican

Michael barspin

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Hector 360

Jordan barspin

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Hector seat grab

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“I really wanted to start riding on the track this year, so it’s great that Herne Hill Velodrome is still up and running here in London. HH track sessions hap-pen every week from around March to October – obviously depending on the weather, as it’s an outdoor track.

I was not the only one thinking about race on the track this year.. I ask for some informations and his experience with picking up Track Racing Rudy Melo, thats what he did say:

The 5th floor crewand Cantgoslow Manchester.

Herne Hill Velodrome

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I have been attending pretty much every week this season and started by doing track induction, which is needed before you can ride any other ses-sion. I stayed on basic training for a few weeks till I felt confident enough to move on to intermediate, which is much tougher than I thought – but it’s great and I love it.

I’ve made a few friends at HH, and the guys from The 5th Floor come down to the track with me too. It’s kind of cool having a group of mates riding with you – it gets quite competitive between us and we end up motivating each other. The community at Herne Hill is really good and there’s a great vibe. A big thank you must go out to the coaches and volunteers who give their valuable time to make sure that track sessions happen every week.”

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Ninja Cats Trick Jam Dojo + Felix shreding in London

Ninja Cats Trick Jam Dojo + Felix shreding in London

Sol power slide 360

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Oscar air at Clisol Bowl

Oscar air at Clisol Bowl Felix London Fields

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Hector

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Felix Lrail at Euston

Felix nose manual South Bank

Felix Lrail at Euston

Oscar 8 steair wallride

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Felix nose manual

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CLASSIC BIKES

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http://2morrowsvictory.com2morrows Victory are a London band consisting of Musicians, Artists and photographers. They also ride track bikes.

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Raf skid time

Greg B, Rafael Powell and Alan Baltic core of 2MV

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Rafael Powell (Drummer, Illustrator)Alan Baltic (Producer, Pianist + synth maniac)Greg Brookshire (Rapper, photographer, Film)George Holly (Artist + Illustrator)Alex Gordon Barker (Pianist, Producer + Drummer)Bartek Piotrowski (photographer + PR)Komar Komarson (Artist + Illustrator + PR)Greg Falski (photographer + general manager)

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Greg B,

Alan

2MV durring RAW show

2morrows Victory are working on Greg B’s solo project titled ‘The Promo-tion’ and will be dropping his debut single ‘Lost and Found’ in the next few weeks.

Ed Wonka

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BIKE CHECK

Anto But (cover shot) was happy to present his new rig SE Bikes us vs them .

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SE Bikes Us vs Them

frame size medium 51.se landing gear forks.redline bmx crusier bar's.quagmen bmx stem.odi long mushroom grips.se pivotal seat post.se pivotal seat with old skool bmx check cover.profile 175 cranks.resist 33t spline.phoenix pedalsphoenix v1 camo straps.velocity chukker's rims.se hubs.continental 700x42 tyers.milwaukee 12t cog

We will be doing more rider’s bike check and test-ing new products for the next issue.Alll company’s are wel-come to be tested.

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RED BULL RIDE + STYLE

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Photocredit: (c) Justin Kos-man/Red Bull Content Pool

RED BULL RIDE + STYLEOn April 30, San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza serve as the setting for a collision of fixed gear biking and urban contemporary art, creating a visually exciting and awe-inspiring event called Red Bull Ride + Style. This event brought together 60 riders from all over, including riders from the Bay Area, Seattle, Portland, New York and even Japan.

Photocredit: (c) Justin Kos-man/Red Bull Content Pool

Josh Bothby

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Photocredit: (c) Justin Kos-man/Red Bull Content Pool

Kozo Fuji

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Matt Reyes

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1st: Matt Reyes2nd: Josh Boothby3rd: Tyler Johnson

Congrats!!

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SNAPSHOT

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Hector up bank to swich

Sol foot jam nohander to slide

Asphalt BikesWarsaw just get a new bike shop. On Friday the 13th of May, Asphalt Bikes open ther first shop. SOFB could not miss this ocassion to take cuple shots from this fixed shop grand opening.

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Asphalt Bikes

Photo: Mateusz Pieczko

back circle

Mateusz back circle

skid comp

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skid comp

skid comp

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uphill sprints

Jenny DonellanPhoto: Mateusz Pieczko

uphill sprints

foot down

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Photo: Mateusz Pieczko

Photo: Mateusz Pieczko

party time at PKP

www.eurobike-fixedgear-championship.com

Traffic distribution x 5th Floor x Soundtrackpresent

1st Eurobike Fixed Gear Championship

Sprint Race + Lake Ride + Party - Friday 2nd Sept 11

Eurobike Public Day - Saturday 3rd Sept 11

Trick Jam - Sunday - Sunday 4th Sept 11

Prizes to be won for 1st, 2nd and 3rd on Sprint Races and Trick Jam

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SOFB 2 EVENTS CALENDAR

12 June 2011NUCULT FIXED GEAR TRICKS CON-TESTLille, francehttp://www.the-nucult.com/content/?page_id=14

6 August 2011London, EnglandTrick Jam MIXTMEAT.com

14-15 August 2011Beijing, China FIXED GEAR Revolution 2

11 September 2011Cest La Merckx 2 Brussels Belgium September 11. 2011

Updates on comps, jams, race venues and all crazy fixed bikes events happening near you. If you are running kind of events then let SOFB know as soon as possible and we will put it here.

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Photo: Michael Chacon

CREW

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SFX - Silesia Fixed

SFX - Silesia FixedAbout SFX you could hear from popular blogs like Pro-lly http://prollyisnotprobably.com/ and others. Some time ago I contact with SFX and we spoke about possible session. Happened faster then we expect..

SOFB presenting SFX

Beginning of SFX that’s year 2008 when SFX have only four members. In short time more people get in to fixed riding and in 2011 have more then 10 members including girls which train tricks a lot and getting better.Hopefully soon you will have chance to see them at European comps.Fixed Bikes in area of Silesia agglomeration still counts as a exotic sport. No shops and community which you need to build from beginning, still each member did have contact with bikes previously. From extreme sports we did have contact with skateboard.. which have it’s of things common with fixed bikes trough needs of constant focus and creativ-ity while you ride. Are group get more in to fixed free-style..spending hours on getting trick right that’s our special-ity. Bike setup coming from that too (fat tyres, tough frame, wild bars , spiny ratio). Lake every one knows hard work brings results and from last year SFX have help from NIKE SPORTSWEAR and from this session works with VEGANSKI and ASPHALT BikesPlease visit us at our flickr page http://www.flickr.com/photos/silesiafixed/ where you can follow are progress.Thanks all the bestSFX

Great people and good friends.. All girls in this group are really charismatic about fixed bikes and there are great example for others. To be honest looking forward to ride with them again .. I’m sure you will see them more in next Issues of SOFB...

Din, Wojtek, Bartosz, Mateusz, Weronika, Michalina, Monika

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Michalina Rutkowska

Michalina skid

Monika with Wonka

SFX in street action

Michalina Rutkowska

Monika Pietras

Bartosz Giszter

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Wojtek Bednarski

Bartosz Giszter wallride Katowice

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extra extra

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Anto, Sol barspin hop, uper Ted with his kido.

Tyler Johnson

Tyler Johnson rocked into town under little fanfare.........however, word got around with a little help from Oscar & FB to meet up at Clis-sold Skatepark the next morning.Unfortunately Tyler didn’t have his “ride” with him.....as he pretty much came straight from Redbull Ride & Style!!

He turned up with LFG, Andy & Dave for a bit of fun......a little later, a small crew of riders turned up and then the party started! Andy & Tyler “killed” it on sk8boards, Dave was “ripping” it on his whip.To top off the day, the sun was out and the beer started “flowing”.......Happy Days! A wicked time was had by all.......

Dave disaster

Tyler scotch-egg traditional in FGL

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