Carmela from Les Ettes and I have been having sneaky meetings over the last six months. Here we are in Paris having a coffee and discussing our secret project.
Finally, our little scheme is set be unveiled at ISPO in Munich. I’ll be travelling over to Germany next Sunday and staying for a couple of days at the trade show. There’s a Les Ettes party on the Sunday evening so make sure you’re there for that and come look at the Les Ettes stand to see what we’ve been up to!
Everyone’s been filming for the fixed gear documentary this week and today everyone went to Wandsworth roundabout for a session. I was really late and the film crew had left but still managed to see Ted and his brother Tom riding well and hitting up this wallride.
With the amount of time, effort and money they’ve put into this film, plus all the great riders involved I reckon this film is gonna be great.
Former Gorgoroth frontman, Gaahl, is set to appear in the first ever (unsuprisingly) black metal musical. Called Svartediket, it’s gonna be shown at Norway’s Festspillene festival in Bergen in May. Damn, I wanna go!
Reminds me of when I travelled all the way to Stockholm a few years back to watch Entombed play with the Swedish National Ballet. It was super surreal but utterly amazing!
When we went to Frankfurt, Obi and Andy from Inspired Flight came along to film us. We rewarded them by drinking lots of beer and not riding very much! Mainly coz of the snow rather than inherent laziness, I swear!
Anyway, Obi and Andy and a rather large production team are currently making a proper documentary about fixed gear bikes. Its an excellent set up with high production values and whatnot and when I saw a quick edit the other day I was super impressed. Along with interviews and footage of tricks and the like, they’ll be including other kinds of riding, frame building and other interesting bits and pieces.
Above is a picture of the set up the other day so you can see what I mean. There’s a goddam lighting rig! Anyway,let me tell you, it actually wound up being pretty stressful yesterday – you see that spotlight? I had to do tricks on that spotlight in front of a dozen people and about four very expensive cameras. To say I got performance anxiety is an understatement! I couldn’t bloody do anything! I was trying this stupid keo as they were filming in mega slow mo and I fucked it up so many times. It was really frustrating. I didn’t realise how hard I find doing that kind of thing but I think it reminded me of when I was snowboarding and I hated competitions because I’d go to pieces!
Shit is proper yo! Told ya:
I’m much happier to just mess about with my friends and a beat up camcorder but Obi and Andy are awesome and it looks like this film is gonna be ace. So thank you guys for including me. I’m sorry I’m such a baby!
Oh damn, I those these boots. Studdarama!
The I Heart party last night was great. Thanks to all the bands and everyone who helped us out. Gustav – you’re a BBQ master! And Tim and Bliss, you guys rule of course.
Whilst I was DJing and chatting with Tim we decided that we must start a non ironic East London metal night. So thats the next mission. Stay tuned for details! Sanna and Nina will be top of my list of DJs for sure!
Got a sneaky peak of these prototype Goldtec hubs that Ted has designed for Shop 14. The main difference is the large axel on the front one which is a different shape. You can’t actually really see that on this picture unfortunately!
There will only be fifty pairs of these super limited edition hubs when they come out so if you’re after a pair, have a word with the guys in the shop and see if they can hold some for ya!
Ted isn’t quite sure how this happened….. but he lost his bike last night. He has a pretty dodgy track record of losing bikes around East London on a night out and having no recollection of how the next day. What really sucks about the one he lost last night is that he built it and designed it himself and we are all going to Frankfurt on Friday and he now doesn’t have a bike to take. So keep yer eyes peeled for it!
This is the bike we are looking for:
Pic by goooove08
Its the ESB model which Ted designed and makes for Shop 14. When I popped into Ted’s workshop to say hi earlier, he told me that an engineer had just been in to see him as Shop 14 would like to make this bike in bigger quantites and Ted can’t keep up with the demand on his own. Looks like Ted will continue to make the super nice high end fillet brazed version whilst they will outsource the cheaper but still badass tig welded version.
Unless he finds it, this is the bike Ted will be taking to Bright in Frankfurt this weekend:
Better get working Ted!
