veloturista

j001

2008-10-01T05:00:00.001-07:00

i don't feel like being a veloturista anymore...
so now, my cycle courier work blog is:
http://j001.com

(j001 is my messenger namecode at work)

love/hate

2008-09-24T07:55:00.001-07:00

work bike

2008-09-22T13:26:00.000-07:00

my work bike

first (work) day on my look fixed

rock'n'rolling fixie riders club

2008-09-21T12:40:00.000-07:00

http://rock-n-rollin.blogspot.com

...

velorution 06.09.08

2008-09-13T00:44:00.001-07:00

velorution 06.09.08, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

after a few incidents/accidents involving buses and velibs...
now bicycles are not allowed on (a lot of) bus lanes in paris

urban velo # 9

2008-09-04T23:34:00.001-07:00

urban velo # 9, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://urbanvelo.org/download

alley-cat's eyes

2008-08-20T08:14:00.000-07:00

panamalleycat 5

2008-08-20T04:19:00.000-07:00

fast friday

2008-08-14T07:09:00.001-07:00

fast friday, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

... is here
http://fastfridaymovie.com

11th of august

2008-08-12T12:36:00.001-07:00

this is my first summer as a courier in paris. i knew everybody in france goes away on holiday in august, but i wasn't expecting it to be so, so quiet. i've done about 6 jobs today. luckily we have a fixed (basic) salary, otherwise money would be crap this month.
it's a bit like being on holiday myself, riding my bike around in paris, with very little traffic, enjoying the city, the sights, finding new spots (like this little park in friedland/balzac) and with some time to think, read and write.
i've just finished reading for the second time "the immortal class". i love this book so much for some many reasons. the first time i read it i wasn't even working as a messenger. i remember dreaming of being a bicycle courier. i never had the chance when i lived in spain and then in england, but i knew it was what i wanted to do. it's always been my dream, since i was in school... i think. but for one reason or another i never got to do it.
until last october, when i decided to quit my job in england and move to paris with my girlfriend, and make my dream come true.
today (yesterday) i'm 39 and i'm happy:
living and working in panam, doing what i love, riding my bike for a living.

paradise weekend

2008-08-10T06:08:00.000-07:00

"since 2004 paradise weekend has taken the traditional courier event and down-tuned it if you will into a relaxing way of getting together for a weekend of races, party and enjoying the last couple of sunny and hot days before facing the wintertime on your bike.

barcelona, spain. october 17,18,19

paradise weekend

(i'll be there)

lord of the cog

2008-08-10T05:39:00.001-07:00

lotc_2008_v2, originally uploaded by fixedgearlondon.com.

ecmc08 video

2008-08-10T01:32:00.000-07:00

london courier emergency fund

2008-08-09T14:38:00.001-07:00

lcef, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://www.lcef.org.uk

house of pistard

2008-08-09T03:40:00.001-07:00

house of pistard, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://houseofpistard.com

hell in south

2008-08-02T02:02:00.000-07:00

http://hellinsouth.fixidixi.com

madrid-paris

2008-08-01T13:30:00.001-07:00

madrid-paris, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

lavapies
a piñon fijo
http://trafficmutants.blogspot.com

souvenir from eindhoven
(gracias compañeros)

big

2008-07-31T14:17:00.001-07:00

big, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

...

ecmc2008 ...

2008-07-28T09:56:00.000-07:00

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

austin can from veloturista on Vimeo.

ecmc08

2008-07-23T12:09:00.000-07:00

and now (tomorrow night after work)
we're off to eindhoven

chistoleeeee

thank you guys

2008-07-23T12:01:00.000-07:00

Created with Admarket's flickrSLiDR.

panamexperience trackstand contest from veloturista on Vimeo.

panam experience

2008-07-17T13:55:00.000-07:00

it's happening

vacaciones

2008-07-11T09:49:00.000-07:00

en españa...

TBMU

2008-07-09T23:23:00.000-07:00

tokyo celebrates its 10th bike meet up...

flyer by kosuke masuda ko5

CMWC08

2008-07-09T14:40:00.000-07:00

london's calling

2008-07-06T07:16:00.001-07:00

london's calling, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

jb's alleycat (allez4bis) 04.07.08

2008-07-05T09:25:00.001-07:00

jb's alleycat (allez4bis) 04.07.08, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

jb's leaving party/alleycat

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedalturista/sets/72157605985958576/

a plus mon pote

c'est parti

2008-07-05T09:13:00.000-07:00

allez salut

http://letour.fr

urban velo 7

2008-06-30T23:37:00.001-07:00

urban velo 7, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://urbanvelo.org/download

fixed

2008-06-28T13:50:00.001-07:00

fixed, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://www.fixed-mag.com

traffic

2008-06-28T00:19:00.001-07:00

traffic, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

pick up for wwf. bois de bologne

summer

2008-06-25T11:50:00.000-07:00

is here

romain's brooklyn machine works gangsta track

2008-06-22T13:46:00.001-07:00

romain's brooklyn machine works gangsta track, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

CMWC09

2008-06-19T02:05:00.000-07:00

tokyo

tokyomessenger.com

CMWC08

2008-06-19T01:59:00.000-07:00

le podium
jumbo, shino (CMWC08 fixed-brakeless winner) and porno steve

photo by martinho

summer is coming

2008-06-18T12:07:00.001-07:00

summer is coming, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

...

bootleg sessions v. 2

2008-06-13T13:56:00.001-07:00

bootleg sessions v. 2, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

arrived today

avenue de la grande armee vide

2008-06-13T13:55:00.001-07:00

avenue de la grande armee vide, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

empty
sweet

hipster special

2008-06-11T23:56:00.001-07:00

hipster special, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

they have arrived...
http://cyclope.over-blog.com

tool

2008-06-11T23:55:00.001-07:00

tool, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

table

2008-06-09T12:45:00.001-07:00

table, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i had to do a delivery at "le bon marche" and on my way in i saw this table. i like it. a lot.

fete du velo a bagnolet

2008-06-08T14:49:00.000-07:00

with our friends of obsen cycle + le 115

velorution cyclonudiste 07.06.08

2008-06-08T14:48:00.000-07:00

there were 6 vans and a big bus of cops when we arrived at jardin de reuilly. they had forbidden the naked ride. some people tried to go completely naked and got arrested. but, in spite of the cops and their methods, it was fun. merci velorution. a l'annee prochaine.

we finish at la fete du velo, at the stand of our friends of cycl'air

panam bike polo

2008-06-05T06:42:00.000-07:00

http://panambikepolo.blogspot.com

logo by laurent

ride of silence

2008-05-18T04:35:00.000-07:00

21 de mai 2008
19h
cyclistes partout dans le monde font un ride silencieux en memoire de ceux qui a été blessés ou a été tués à vélo sur les rues et routes publiques.

http://www.rideofsilence.org

nagasawa san

2008-05-17T15:22:00.000-07:00

gios torino

2008-05-15T11:44:00.001-07:00

gios torino, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

work bike

wheeler

2008-05-02T13:22:00.001-07:00

wheeler, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i've been working on this thing for two weeks... hard work

panam bike polo

2008-05-01T09:03:00.000-07:00

bike polo a paris
RDV dimanches 17h
palais de tokyo

http://panambikepolo.blogspot.com

gios torino

2008-04-26T07:07:00.001-07:00

gios torino, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

work bike...

R.I.P. rosa

2008-04-26T07:05:00.001-07:00

R.I.P. rosa, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

shit happens (part 2, the end)

merci (mes potes) les coursiers

2008-04-19T09:51:00.000-07:00

il y a 3 mois j'ai commencé a travailler chez urban cycle.
c'eté un peu dur au debut, mais avec votre aide j'ai réussi et je m'amuse bien.
j'adore ce boulot:
(c'est mon rêve)

je roule (plus ou moins vite) en vélo tout la journée. je apprends les plus rapides chemins dans paris et je connais panam un peu mieux chaque jour. et je apprends toujours le français (chistole et le français français quoi) aussi.

je travaille avec les meilleurs coursiers á vélo de paris.
je suis trés fier de travailler avec vous.
et je vous remercie.

bonne route

urban cycle team photo by Pat

back to work

2008-04-10T11:38:00.001-07:00

back to work
Originally uploaded by pedalturista

(first day)
back on my bike
(after the accident)

(my knee still hurts a little bit but)
it feels so good

the olympic flame (shit happens)

2008-04-08T13:41:00.001-07:00

shit happens, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i crossed pont carroussel, on my way to a delivery in rue auber, i wanted to cut across le louvre but the olympic flame was about to pass by there so the road was closed and the cops wouldn't let me cross, so i had to go on quai francois mitterand... my campy zonda got caught up on the pave... i remember seeing my front wheel coming off the fork... and then i just flew over the bars... hands first, then my left knee on the pave... then i rolled over and saw my wheel flying away and the rest of the bike across the road... my messenger bag stopped me. i got up. a cop asked me " ça va?" and picked up my bike... my wheel had 4 spokes broken. the fork is a bit bent. i sat there trying to figure out what happened. i saw the olympic flame surrounded by cops everywhere passed by. i booed...
i was lucky, i guess. i blame the pitlock (somehow it came loose?).
my knee still hurts. i hope i can go back to work on thursday.
(i've borrowed sophie's front wheel again)

package

2008-04-05T03:45:00.001-07:00

package, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

how big is too big... ?

(my lunch was also in there somewhere in my messenger bag)

keirin

2008-03-31T11:44:00.000-07:00

yoshiaki nagasawa

2008-03-29T16:09:00.000-07:00

Excerpted from:
Tradition and Technology
by Ted Constantino
Bicycle Guide magazine June 1987

Yoshiaki Nagasawa's shop rests in the foothills southeast of Osaka, in the village of Kashiwara. It is a good location-far away from the choking smog and impenetrable traffic of the country's business capital, and close to the border of Nara prefecture, where good cycling roads await.

Not that Nagasawa has much time to ride these days. As Japan's most famous frame builder, he is swamped with more orders than he and his single assistant can possibly hope to fill. He holds up a piece of paper filled with customers' specifications and notes wryly, "Only one piece of paper makes 26 bicycles." The situation is hopeless, but not serious.

Nagasawa's chief claim to fame, of course, is that he builds bicycles for Koichi Nakano, the ten-time world professional sprint champion. Nakano is also one of the world's richest cyclists; he earns over $400,000 a year on the keirin circuit. That kind of success has garnered Nakano a lot of admiration and respect, and has given his frame builder the lion's share of the bicycle business among the top-ranked riders.

'There are about 50 builders registered with the Keirin Association," Nagasawa explains. As with every facet of life in Japan, there is a chart that breaks these numbers down, and he dutifully spreads the sheet before us. It lists the 50 frame- builders, including the major brands such as Bridgestone and Fuji, and notes how many of that builder's bicycles are used in each keirin class. 'You see, Fuji has 71 riders using their frame, but only two in the top classes. Bridgestone has 1154 bicycles ii@ use, but very few in the top classes." Nagasawa's finger traces his own chart listing: 68 bicycles in the top class, 25 of them in the first rank. 'So I am very busy," he laughs.
Nagasawa didn't have his heart set on frame building when he attended the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo. He had just finished his second year of high school, and had never competed in a bicycle race. The Olympics changed everything. "As soon as the last race was over, I joined my school's racing club," he recalls. But he admits he wasn't much of a competitor. 'I was more interested in the mechanics of the bicycle. At the time, the Japanese racing association was trying to make some standard specifications for the frames. They imported many bike;, most of them Cinellis, in an effort to create a standard." Nagasawa seized the opportunity to study the Italian exotics; he took each one completely apart and measured the pieces. He noticed other racers and mechanics doing it, too, and wondered if the Italians were, as scholarly in' their approach to the bicycle.

That natural curiosity took him to Italy the following spring. "I graduated from school in March, and in May I was in Italy, looking at bikes." Soon thereafter, he apprenticed himself to Sante Pogliaghi for a year, and then moved on to Ugo DeRosa's small shop, where he studied frame- building for four more years. When he returned to Japan, he brought the essence of Italian frame building with him.

'The bicycle is sort of a picture," he says of what he, learned; 'it is artistic. Each bike has a basic function and specification. In addition to that, though, the bike has to be well-balanced and beautiful, both by itself and when the rider is on it. I build every bicycle as if everybody sees it and appreciates its beauty. I don't build in a mechanical way, because even if a bike is 100-percent mechanically correct, if it looks ugly when the rider is on it, then it is not successful.

"All of my bikes are Italian-style bicycles. If you look at an Italian bicycle, you will see that it is complete. Some other bikes are not well balanced; the seat is too far forward or too far back, the cables are too long or too short- something seems incorrect. Italian bicycles, though, are correct. I try to bring that Italian completeness of concept to my work. I like to make the bicycle look fast."

Nagasawa's road and track frames follow the ancient Italian pattern-shallow angles for the road bikes, steeper ones for the track. He prefers Columbus SL for the road frames, and a mix of Tange No. I and No. 2 for the track frames. Beyond that, he simply fits the bicycle to the rider as best he can.

We follow him downstairs to his shop, a surprisingly high-ceilinged room (surprising because we gajiin can stand comfortably), and a sparsely appointed one. There is a freestanding jig in the room's center, and an elaborate alignment table near the windows. The table is Nagasawa's own design, and his principal point of departure from his Italian mentors. "When I studied with DeRosa, he measured everything horizontally. But I have difficulty doing that, so I finally built these tools to measure and build my frames vertically." Arranged on the table are a pair of gauges that automatically measure the head and seat angles. There is also a set of blocks cut in 1 mm increments that are used to check the height of the bottom bracket shell. "Apart from that, there's no magic. I do have a special technique for brazing, but it is hard to ex- plain. The main thing is that I study and learn, and try to improve every day. I never seem to catch up with what I want, though," he shrugs.

"I don't really think of myself as a frame builder," says the man who is famous throughout the bicycle world for just that skill. "The definition of what I am is complicated, but basically a frame- builder is just a welder. A real frame- builder, in my mind, is someone who makes a complete bicycle-every part, every component. They have to work together, so they should all be one.' He admits to frustration at not being able to make his own components. The ones he deals with are far from what he wants.

"The attitude of the Japanese parts makers is that they change the model every year, and even if a part is good, they change it. It's much better now than ten years ago, though. Back then, Campagnolo worked very hard making parts for racers or frame builders, but Japanese parts manufacturers only made parts to sell. Well, the communication wasn't good between the Japanese frame builders and the parts makers. The frame builders didn't make their desires known, they just bought parts from distributors. It was better for awhile, but with the business off in Japan the parts makers are just looking for a market again. Even Campagnolo is different now, with the death of Campagnolo-san." He shakes his head. "So much of what is done is just an image change."
Fortunately for Japan's premier cyclists, Nagasawa refuses to change. He makes about 300 bikes a year with the help of his lone assistant, who does-the pantographing headset installations, and other small tasks (but no frame building), and another helper to take care of the books. He figures he can keep accepting orders for seven or eight more years, but will have to turn away new work after that so that he can take care of his life- time customers.

"Every day, my work improves a little bit, I hope. So I think my future custom- ers are going to be getting better bikes." Better, perhaps, but not necessarily differ- ent. For in this land of constant change, of technology accelerating behind a runaway engine, Nagasawa's frames are a link to the traditions of cycling, and to the masters who have come before.

FINI

日本自転車振興会

2008-03-29T03:01:00.001-07:00

njs, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

日本自転車振興会

 keirin japan

04.84 kashiwara.osaka.japan

2008-03-29T01:16:00.001-07:00

nagasawa, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

the bicycle of my dreams... (coming true)

nihon jitensha shinkokai

2008-03-23T04:01:00.001-07:00

nihon jitensha shinkokai, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

un collectif d' artistes regroupé autour d' un même lieu.
(info sur http://www.le115.com )
On est parti d' un concept simple: pourquoi jeter notre dévolu
sur des super marques internationales comme Specialized ou Cannondale,
alors que l' on peut produire chez nous des vélos originaux a moindres couts.
Du fixie épuré au tall-bike farfelu en passant par le vélo porteur,
tout peut être réalisé chez nous.
Notre seule limite est votre imagination.

http://obsen-cycle.blogspot.com

panam experience

2008-02-27T01:15:00.000-08:00

http://panamexperience.eu

louvre

2008-02-19T10:57:00.001-08:00

louvre, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

...

rosa (test ride)

2008-02-16T12:09:00.000-08:00

until i get my 650c campy zonda i'm borrowing sophie's wheel

la seine

2008-02-04T13:37:00.001-08:00

ECMC2008

2008-02-04T12:59:00.001-08:00

registration is now open

http://www.ecmc2008.com

pause dejeuner place fontenoy

2008-01-30T01:48:00.001-08:00

...

samedi

2008-01-26T05:45:00.001-08:00

...

traffic jam

2008-01-19T04:31:00.000-08:00

...

pause dejeuner

2008-01-17T13:02:00.000-08:00

...

first day at work

2008-01-16T01:17:00.000-08:00

(mon rêve)

jour d'essai

2008-01-14T13:32:00.000-08:00

...

samedi soir (paris la nuit) ride

2008-01-13T12:53:00.000-08:00

avec les mecs de basement bikes

enchanté d'avoir fait votre connaissance !

pignonfixe rendez-vous

2008-01-10T16:16:00.000-08:00

une petite ballade tres sympa avec les mecs de http://pignonfixe.com

le parcours:

Louvre -> Quai -> Bastille -> Avenue Daumesnil -> Blv. Poniatowski -> Blv. Massena -> Avenue d'Ivry -> Rue Tolbiac -> Bibliothèque François Miterrand -> Passerelle Simone de Beauvoir -> Bercy -> Bastille.

merci les mecs, a jeudi prochain

CRANKED magazine

2008-01-09T10:02:00.000-08:00

i'm sad to find out that
CRANKED magazine... is no more
no.5 was the last one

http://crankedmag.com

Thank you Michael

BFF 2008

2008-01-09T02:18:00.000-08:00

COG mag

2008-01-07T03:14:00.000-08:00

more inspiration arrived today

http://cogmag.com

the first horde of the year

2008-01-05T05:44:00.000-08:00

04.01.08

Repu - Grds boulevards - Italiens - Opéra - Madeleine (un tour gratuit) - Malesherbes - Pte d'Anières - Levallois (Collange Baudin Wilson) - Pt de Levallois - Courevoie (Bd St Denis) - Défense - skwat - dalle - parking (vautrasses) - circulaire - Pt Neuilly - Charles de Gaulle - Pte Maillot

merry christmas

2007-12-19T01:32:00.001-08:00

have fun and ride safe

panam experience flyer

2007-12-09T14:05:00.000-08:00

http://panamexperience.blogspot.com

http://http://www.myspace.com/panamexperience

panam experience

2007-12-05T05:30:00.001-08:00

jboule is organizing the pre event in paris for the ECMC08
i'm helping out
we need some flyers soon...

http://panamexperience.blogspot.com

surly cross check (workbike)

2007-12-03T02:23:00.001-08:00

surly cross check, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i'd like to get a job with my friends at urban cycle
("la première division" as jboule says)
... but i would need a geared bike
(i'm not sure why but you're not allowed to work on a fixed)
so i got my cross check geared and ready
i just need to learn french properly
petit a petit

bicycle concept store

2007-12-01T12:50:00.000-08:00

Last night we went to the inauguration of:
k124house
a bicycle concept store in paris
[9 rue pierre dupont)

nice shop, great space, good music, drinks, friends... it was the opening party.
plenty of bmx, trial bikes, mountain bikes, ... but no fixed, track bikes, ...
after watching the mashsf dvd, maybe they'll consider bringing some fixie goodies since riding fixed is becoming quite trendy in paris just like everywhere else...

there was a flatland bmx demo going on
the guys from cream mag were there...
and some kids riding unicycles!

after the party we went for a ride... vendredi soir roulez

cycl'air

2007-11-27T07:49:00.000-08:00

my friend juan and his colleague have created a new cycle messenger company in paris:
CYCL'AIR

Cyclair s’engage à tous les niveaux :

Rapidité : nos cyclistes aguerris et notre logistique pointue
nous permettent de vous garantir des délais de livraison très serrés.

Fiabilité : suivi personnalisé de vos commandes, facturation détaillée en fin de mois,
preuves de livraison disponibles sur simple demande.

Compétitivité : des tarifs dégressifs, adaptés à tous les besoins.

Cyclair
3, place des provinces
92170 Vanves

Contact@cyclair.net

06.28.25.60.06

homework

2007-11-25T12:13:00.001-08:00

homework, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i did some work on my bike today...
i'd been using 32c tyres for a while but i wanted to try my bontrager 23c's ... we'll see how they work on the pave.
and i changed my 90mm salsa (upside down) stem for my 100mm nitto (a little bit more rise).
now i need to fix my mavic cosmos wheel... but in the meantime i'm using the front wheel off my touring bike (mavic 501 on 36 open pro)...

this is how my wheel was after the accident...

... broken spoke...

annie saw what happened:
"the accident happened so quickly, and it was all so surreal.
i must have just ridden past you or looked back to say something to you,
when it looked like you got your tire wedged between the cobble stones
and just flipped over 180 degrees; bike flying over you, but still attached..."
and my helmet was in my bag... i'm lucky.

i missed my bike

2007-11-24T18:45:00.001-08:00

i missed my bike, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i went to juan's to pick up my bike today... luckily i had a spare wheel... my front wheel had a broken spoke... i wonder if that's why i crashed that night... it feels so good to be back on my bike... my shoulder still hurts a little bit but i'm happy... and ready to get a job soon...

home (home)

2007-11-16T07:32:00.001-08:00

la punta, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

dobladillo y cerveza in la punta, cadiz
with my dad's bike
i miss my bike but this is a pretty sweet ride (comfortable, though i'm not sure about the saddle).

home

2007-11-07T10:57:00.001-08:00

steamroller in cadiz, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

i'll miss sophie
...
and i'll miss my bike.
i'm going home (home as in my mum and dad's)
two weeks in cadiz
nice
and sunny
and my mum's food
...
but what am i going to do?
2 weeks without my bike...
i guess i can ride my dad's bike,
and i'll be studying french
so that when i come back home (paris)
i'll be ready to get a job
...

panamalleycat IV 03.11.07

2007-11-05T04:17:00.000-08:00

my helmet was in my bag. i woke up when they were getting me into the ambulance. i'm lucky, i guess. my face looks like someone punched me and my shoulder hurts but i'm ok.

juan took my bike (with the front wheel fucked up) with him. jonathan and delphina came to the hospital and waited with me until they let me out at 5am. thank you guys.

so i missed the end of the night, but looking at my photos now... it was a great night.

we met up at 19:00 at porte maillot. lots of people showed up. local couriers from urban cycle, velocite paris, and novea, also tom (who runs tour de ville) vincent (haute-courier) and joss the boss (who works in london) from eindhoven, ... anny and rebecca (who i met at the velorution ride that morning) from the states, ...

tom, vincent and me wanted to enjoy the sights of paris la nuit. luckily, the 3rd checkpoint was in a bar so we stopped for a beer with axle and after a few amstel's we decided we weren't going to win the alleycat. so we never made it to the second manifest... but we found out where the finish line was and we got there eventually.

gab, yves and miguel (in that order apparently) won the race, joss was the first out of town, rebecca the first girl, pat the best dispatch, juan also won something, and so did some more people i can't remeber now... jboule did a great job organizing the whole event. merci beaucoup monsieur. a la prochaine (decembre 8).

more photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/pedalturista

panamalleycat (pre event) 02.11.07

2007-11-02T18:22:00.001-07:00

panamalleycat (pre event) 02.11.07, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

une très bonne soirée...
friends, beer, bicycles, ride, food, ride, beer, ... ride... paris la nuit... panamalleycat "pre event"

veloturista spoke card

2007-11-02T08:58:00.001-07:00

veloturista spoke card, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

panamalleycat 4 tomorrow
03.11.07
porte maillot, paris 19:00

urbanvelo # 4

2007-11-02T04:19:00.001-07:00

urbanvelo # 4, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

more inspiration:
urbanvelo.org # 4 is out.
jeff guerrero published
one of my photos of the BFF paris ...

jb's bike
(some fucking narvalo stole his spoke cards the other day)

turismo de interior

2007-10-25T13:45:00.001-07:00

turismo de interior, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

paris (daydreaming)

2007-10-24T06:34:00.001-07:00

my office, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

still working on my french
and getting to know the city
i hope i can get a job soon

velograph

2007-10-24T02:42:00.001-07:00

velograph, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

http://velograph.net by jason britton

(inspiration)

goodbye england

2007-10-24T02:41:00.001-07:00

goodbye england, originally uploaded by pedalturista.

goodbye england
this is it
i quit my job in england
i'm staying where my heart is
in paris
and i'm making my dream come true
becoming a bicycle messenger

this blog is how i intend to keep an account of my work
... a diary kinda thing