Bow Bike Man

Spotted this guy in Oakland this past weekend rolling down Market. The whole rig was basically moving wheels and all you could hear were the hundreds of holiday bows hitting the spokes. Pretty rad.

Chrome Van Hits Up The Hurley US Surf Open

The van's headed to LA this weekend for the Hurley US Surf Open. If you're at the event and spot the van, drop by for a beer and say whattup! We'll drop a line on twitter & let you know where we're at...

Touchstone Bouldering Series

Mission Cliffs Bouldering Competition Series kicks off this Friday in SF. Expected turnout is 300+ and the competition will be continuing every month at each MC location, concluding with the grand finale at Berkeley in November. For more info, click here

SF Park Tour Recap

The Chrome Van was on the scene this past weekend. We hit up the BFF for a bit in the mission, just in time to checkout some BMX action.

After doing circles around Dolores for a while (parking this thing's a bitch), we rolled to the pan handle to setup shop & kicked out tshirts and tekates.

Fuck The Police

Check out these pics that were emailed to us today, snapped from the Prop 8 protests that went down this past November in L.A.

Here's the email that followed:

I just wanted to show you the magical journey/free advertising your bag has enjoyed while being on my back.

In November, when Prop 8 passed, my mate and I were in the protests here in L.A. When my mate was helping someone out, the police started to toss him about. Seeing this, I came to his aide. While fending off the cops from my friend (after they pushed him to the floor when his back was turned to them), we managed to get arrested. While this whole altercation was happening and we were being manhandled by LA's finest, Rick Loomis, photographer, snapped some photos of us.

At the Annenberg Space for Photography, his photos of us getting arrested won him the award of Photographic Excellence for a Newspaper. Your magic Chrome bag can be seen in all it's glory. I have enclosed a photo for you guys. Well, that's all I got. Thanks for making a such a fine bag that protected my back for a while, before the knees were laid into me!

R

Hell Yeah, way to represent!

Downieville Classic / Downieville 2009 Pixie Cross World Championships.

Downieville Classic was killer, this town is mountain biking. SF Dirtlab represented, congrats to all the riders, well done.






2009 Pixie Cross World Championships went off, only one casualty during the race, (broken finger, four missing teeth and stitches) however, he came back to make the mosh pit after the drama!! Hats off to Tom...


Beer drinking and hucking off a launch ramp, we love Downieville...



Congrats to SF Dirtlab riders. Eric, Luke, Kim, Murray and Tim braved the XC course on Day 1. An 8 mile climb up the Trail of Tears, 5 miles across the top of the saddle and a ripping descent down Pauley Creek, Third Divide and First Divide; for 28 miles of leg burning, lung searing mountain man bliss.

SF Park Tour This Weekend!

Keep an eye out for the van this weekend. We'll be rolling through town Saturday, hittin up the BFF for a bit on Capp & 16th and then hangin in Dolores. Swing by for a beer!