Inspired

Last month, the guys over at ZLOG posted their Most Inspirational FGFS riders of 2010. What do you know of the 10, 5 rock our stuff. Below are those riders along with why ZLOG choose them, it's no surprise to us but hopefully it'll help to inspire you.

Ed ‘Wonka‘ Laforte Why: Co-founder of Grime Bikes, 26″ fixed revolutionary,

and he is a big reason why people show up (and lose) at trick comps.

photo by Slumworm

Tom Lamarche Why: Balls the size of watermelons and they aren’t done growing.

Pulled from Wrahw.

Jakob Santos Why: Dude goes [...] big and isn’t afraid to show some ass.

Photo by eric hsueh

Mike Chacon Why: Young, determined, and I knew he was going places the very first time I saw him ride.

Photo by Nike

Justin ‘Congo’ Mitchell Why: His smile (and he texts me because he misses me sometimes).

photo by ZACH BOSSINGTON

What did you do with your weekend?

We rode. Well, technically we drove to ride but that's what happens when some go to Cleveland to hit up Ray's and others head to the other side of the mitten to Ann Arbor for some bike polo.


Jacobi, Ryan and a few others headed to Ray's while Matt, Alex, and myself along with Bob, Josh and Jay from GRBP were part of the latter who spent part of their weekend at the bottom of a parking garage playing polo with 14 other players from Ann Arbor and Fort Wayne. This was simply two days of friendlies, mixing up everyone and getting the opportunity play as much polo as you could handle just as long as you didn't mind weaving through pillars.

It was blast... a few pictures from Saturday.

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Friday Highlight: Shopping

It's been awhile since we've had a Friday Highlight of product and what better way to bring it back and highlight everything. Yes, everything. If you were over on our main site yesterday, you probably noticed we launched out new online store.

This is a growing part of our website with more and more product being updated daily. Need a hub? We've got it there. Need a Benny Gold rim? Yep, there. A23 Pro wheelset? Yeah, it's there too. How about some crazy Velocity specials? Oh yeah, they are there too. That's only a taste of what is already there, ready for your consumption!

We are extremely excited to see this portion of our site launch and look forward to being able to provide an easy shopping experience; supplying you with the finest wheels, rims, and accessories you expect from Velocity products.

So beat the rush, head over to the Velocity Online Store; upgrade your current ride or start getting your gear together for the coming season!

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Dealers, we want you to be part of this new avenue to bring more Velocity product to your customers. Find out how by visiting this link.

Overtime

Last night, my stalker-feed, errr New Feed, on the Facebook informed me of some of Bolt's after hours musings here at Velocity. Enjoy his post:

Put in some “overtime” at work. New grind box done and doing well. Ryan pulled his first ever smith grind on it already! I think the other boxes in the warehouse need to be revamped now though. This winter is just starting, i think we could have some pretty rad stuff in there by the end of it.

Geeks.

With the dawning of a new year we, or better I, have a confession. Since it is always better the start off some thing new with complete honesty, I wanted to clear the air on a some thing...

I'm kind of a geek. Jacobi is kind of a geek too. Bolt is kinda of... Bolt. And really if you're reading this blog, you're right there with us. We're all bike geeks, it's the middle of the winter and most of us are guilty dreaming of that next ride or bike or part.

And regardless of what friends, family or our significant others might say, there is nothing wrong with that. Can I get an amen?!?

But in all seriousness, I was conducting my daily patrol of cycling blogs and news sites and noticed over on Prolly's site our friends over at Geekhouse Bikes have a banner over posted there. To the untrained eye, it is just another ad from a stellar company but if you look closely, you can see the Major Tom's being rocked by, what I'd guess is, Donny on the Geekhouse 'Cross Team that we are a proud sponsor of.

A great group of riders that we are privileged to be able to work with. Not only do they love to ride fast but most importantly they positively promote the sport. If you have a chance check out Geekhouse along with the other sponsors of the team [located on the bottom of their page].