One of the Best

This guy. Thanks for the mad points, FC!

Gastown Sprints

Gastown Sprints roller racing - Vancouver, BC - July 8th - Details here.

Le Tour

Starts on Saturday! Who's going to win? My money's on Contador. He'll put time into his GC rivals in the TTs and defend his lead in the mountains. The absence of race radios on a couple of the flat stages should make for some interesting breakaways, and, of course, Lance is back. Can't wait!

If anyone is interested, I set up a group over on the Versus Tour de France fantasy league. Register, pick your team, and join the Hipster Nascar group. Password: track. Besides the prizes Versus is giving the overall winners of its competition, I might offer a small prize to whoever wins the Hipster Nascar group.

Chicago Couriers Union BBQ

Just got an email about this. The Chicago Couriers Union is putting on a fund-raising picnic for the Ryan Boudreau Memorial Fund tomorrow, July 3rd, in historic Union Park. Everyone, including non-messengers, is welcome. There will be food, drinks, kickball and mini-bike races. I know I say this all the time, but if you're in Chicago you should definitely go to this, because the grand prize for the mini-bike races is $200 worth of tattoo work! Plus, you'll be showing solidarity with a hard working union. Head over to Union Park tomorrow at 5pm.

Tour De Water Tower

I know I've said this before, but damn, there are always a lot of bike events happening in Seattle. Tour de Water Tower Guerilla Time Trial - July 12th - Seattle, WA - Details here.

Team Pegasus on Urban Velo

Sean from Team Pegasus (and the star of Tracko's old splash page, riding a bowl on his disk wheeled Concept for a laugh) appears on the Urban Velo page right now, killing it up at the track. Brad was in town covering the Team Beer'd Ghetto Cross race, and found the time to head up to Northbrook and take some photos of the action. Check it out here.

Fixed & Free Party

Party on the 4th of July celebrating the first year anniversary of the Fixed & Free bike shop in Albuquerque, NM. There'll be beer, a bike rodeo, live music, a bbq, beer, and the Albuquerque premier of Bootleg Sessions 3. Details here.

New Cadence Gear

New Cadence stuff out for summer, including poplin shirts, jeans, t-shirts, caps more.





Fun fact: Cadence is now the 45th most popular girls name in the United States. Hipster Nascar: schooling you on random bullshit since '07. Check out the new collection of Cadence clothing here.

New Kazane Track Frames

Nice! Check 'em out here.

July Events

There are a good few events going on in July. Here are a few of them. If you're planning an alleycat or a race or whatever, drop me a line and I'll try to get the word out.

No Brakes Atlanta 2nd Anniversary! - July 10th - Atlanta, GA - Details here.

Velocity Atlanta - July 12th - Details here.

Future Tense - July 1oth - Seattle, WA - Details here.

Broadway 4th of July Race - New York, NY.

Black and Gold Sprints (running on the OpenSprints system)- July 2nd - Pittsburgh, PA - Details here.

Trackstar Courier Classic - July 11th- New York, NY - Details here.

Shirts from RIOT Minneapolis

Alpe d'Huez shirt, tracing the 21 switchbacks of the historic climb, from RIOT Minneapolis.






















Addict shirt, from RIOT Minneapolis.

Downers Ave 2009

One of the most popular and historic road races in the American season is this weekend. The Downer Classic, part of the Tour of America's Dairyland, will take place in Milwaukee, WI, this Saturday, June 27th. It's going to be pretty crazy, so get there early. All the details are here, and keep an eye out for the Ben's Cycle Ultra Prime competition during the race.

This Weekend

BackyardBlam & Radderday Roller Races - June 27th - Portland, OR - Details here.






















Cranksgiving in June - June 27th - Ypsilanti, MI - Details here.

Road to Roubaix Shirts

The guys in charge of the excellent Road to Roubaix movie have had some shirts printed. Get one, and the DVD of the movie, here.

Thanks to Josh at Deathlap for the heads-up.

Bicycle Art

Three paintings, inspired by the classic move American Flyers, by Steve Denis. See more of his work at Velopaint.












Three drawings by Matthew Hodson. Check out his other stuff here.

Rouleur 13

Rouleur 13 is out just in time for Le Tour. Read all about Robert Millar's KOM win, back when KOM really meant something. Details here.

Hell of the Midwest

Team race - Saturday, June 27th - Bloomington, IN - Details here.

Lucky 7 Shirt

Anyone know where to get these from? Seen on chifg.
All the details are on the LondonFGSS board.

New TrackosaurusRex Shirts

If you're lucky, Kyle might throw in a Hipster Nascar button with your purchase. Get your shirt here.

VeloCity Chicago/Milwaukee 2009 Photos

Thanks to Gavin Gould and Andrew Nordyke (with his late 1960's Polaroid 250 Landcamera) for these pics of the action at VeloCity 2009 at Kenosha. Seems like the Chicago Cuttin' Crew put on a great day. Props to Squid (the man, the legend) at Cyclehawk for starting the whole deal, and to all the sponsors who contributed prizes.

Non-messenger scratch race, with Team Pegasus well represented. Sad to see, however, that Frank doesn't race in deck shoes anymore. Photo by Gavin Gould.

Racers chilling on the bleachers between heats. Photo by Andrew Nordyke.

Early match sprint heat, non-messengers. Andrew, Tyler and Sage of Team Pegasus, and Val of Bouledogue Tout Noir. Photo by Gavin Gould.

Stan feels ill while Andrew gloats. Photo by Andrew Nordyke.

Another match-sprint heat at the line, this time with Andrew Nordyke risking death to take a polaroid. Photo by Gavin Gould.

j.dot of dispatch101 calling out laps in the points race. Photo by Gavin Gould.

Al Urbanski of the Chicago Cuttin' Crew getting ready to own his match-sprint heat. Photo by Andrew Nordyke.

Read a full report of the day over on the Cuttin' Crew page, or at dispatch101.