Super Jenn

Adorable Jenn de la Vega worked with us to refurbish her Fuji Touring bike and this is the result. Almost all original parts and a lovely smile to top it off. Jenn is the Prez of a great record company originally from Davis CA that has roots in community radio. Mushpot records is a hip, child-friendly label out of Bed Stuy that has won my heart overnight. Y'all should check their offerings.
When we refurbished her bike, she upgraded her tires to Panaracer Paselas and we wrapped her bars with Planet Bike cork ribbon. All new cables and brake pads and full bearing overhauls make this bike nicer than New Old Stock. We have been building up some great offerings including a Black 52 cm Soma Rush fixed gear with 165 mm Sugino 75 cranks, Chris King Head Set, Nitto Cro Moly Keirin bars, Mavic MA2 Rims laced onto Cartridge Bearing hubs and 23 mm Vredstein Fortezza Tricomp 175 psi tires. I am not selling it with Brakes but they can easily be mounted. SUPER BUENO.
Today was Angelito's 28th birthday and we had a great barbecue on the lawn infront of the shop. There were Deleriums all around and Jerry bought his son a six pack of Golden Monkeys for his bitrhday. That makes it official; the beer of the shop has changed from the Loose Cannons to the Golden Monkey. Don't drink and ride y'all.

Torker and Redline

The Redline 925 and the Torker U-districts are here. I won't bore you with the specs that you can get from the links up there. Instead let me tell you a little about some of our customers' fun times they had with their bikes. Ronnie the bike messenger got one of these 925 jobbies right here. His job destroyed his fenders and they quickly discintigrated into a million pieces. The other day Ronnie was cab surfing his way up Ave of the Americas when he was sandwiched between two cabs who seemed to wanna merge together with him inbetween. At 25 mph he grabbed both brakes and back pushed a slow stop and to get outta the sandwich. The cabs crunched doors and he endoed his way to facing left where a nice gap had opened between the parked cars and cabbie. Ronnie stomped on the pedals around the screeching cabs as they stopped and squeezed by the left cabbie as he swerved back to close the gap and stop because of the accident. Ronnie came back and thanked us for recommending the rear brake with the fixed rear wheel because he could not skidd fast enough even with the aid of a powerfull front brake.
The shop has enjoyed a few re-arrangements. We gotta get the word out, business has slowed down and we are kinda hoping people will tell friends so we can pick up the slack and eat a little.

The Case of the Stolen Sandwichboard

My friend made us this awesome sign that we set up across the street from our shop, daily. Three weeks ago I left the sign out overnight and when I came in to the shop in the morning, it was gone. Weird thing is, whoever stole it must have had a guilty conscience and they returned the sign at our doorstep like an abandoned child last week.

A Japanther 4th of July

JAPANTHER AND TIGHT PANTS WERE UP TO THEIR OLD TRICKS AGAIN!

As the white shirts drove by shaking their fists from the aire condicionado comfort of their partol car. We started off the loading dock with a hot girl band and some local talent from Queens that go by the name Ghost Mall. Pictured here to the right, I have the early part of the show. This girl band got the crowd into the mood of the day and set the mood for the next band:
NINJA SONIK

Ghost Mall was KEY in helping me clean and clear some space and they went to get the hot dogs and ice that were essential to our success that day.

Their music was fun and energetic.

Here is a clip of their show.

We really enjoyed all of the fun and good will from all of you and our great neighborhood! If anyone has more photos of the show please email them to me because by the time JAPANTHER and NINJA SONIK came on the stage I was too busy running around to get any good shots. By the way, during the show, some prick scribed "HAVE SEX" into our bathroom mirror. If you should be inspired to do heed their call our bathroom, PLEASE DO NOT DO IT ON THE SINK. It cannot support the weight... yet.

Kenny's Kids

Our pal Kenny (not pictured here) is an expert at trashing bikes! One of the best ever and proud of it. Here we have his hoopty that we converted with his pal because he was racked up in bed recovering from hitting a jay walker and then narrowly avoiding being flattened into his bike by a bus. We sold him a used front road wheel and new Cro-Moly 700c Chromed fork with a refurbished 39mm reach 1989 Shimano 105 caliper. Then we got him an affordable crankset that worked with his cartridge bearing Campy bottom bracket. Since his old Italian frame was Italian threaded we could not replace it easily to accomodate the Suginos. We gave him some track grips to go with his green frame. Some MKS Sylvan Track pedals with MKS single strap steel toe-clips and a KMC Kool Chain to hold him to the Dura-Ace cog and Wheels Mfg lock ring spun onto a Formula hub that was laced to an Alex rim by DT spokes.

We hope Kenny recovers nicely from his bumps and bruises. He helped us so much with our July 4th party where Japanther and Ninja Sonik played a benefit show for a local DJ. We had so much fun serving hot dogs and beers to our beloved customers and friends.