Crazy Bikes / Crazy Times.
What's up? Heat waves. And Howies. A few are still available. Black, Coated, Baby Blue.
Nick Brandreth sent over some stills of him getting after it on his Fall Guy.
Nice table-fakie on some rough banks.
Grass bank to wall-ride.
What else? The Olympics are around the corner, and more than anything, they are serving as a barometer for the times we live in. Which are absolutely crazy. Nike spent a record $2.3 Billion in advertising last year yet just got busted last week for sweat-shop conditions in it's factories. Again. I guess when you spend one dollar in advertising for every eight you earn, there ain't much left over for the product.
Check this out:
All I know is that Saul Williams song they are using is one hell of a jam.
Heat has always played a role in the summer Olympics, and Beijing will certainly be boiling. Unfortunately pollution may play a deciding role in the results. Some US track cyclists had to apologize for wearing pollution masks as the entered China recently. Hey, I've been to industrial Asia more than a few times, and I don't blame them.
This article put this situation in perspective.
"Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, a tough and tenacious American mountain biker we interviewed for one of our pieces, told us he threw up during his race in Beijing last September because the pollution was so bad. Fifty of the best mountain bikers in the world started that race; eight finished. But American triathlete Matt Reed may have described it best. Reed told us he went for a jog in Beijing, blew his nose, and could see the black pollution that he'd blown out of his body. How's that for an image? The International Olympic Committee has already admitted it might have to reschedule some outdoor events if the pollution is bad in August. That would be a huge embarrassment for the Chinese hosts."
That ain't early morning fog....
It's easy to point fingers at problems. These are crazy times.
-L
Nick Brandreth sent over some stills of him getting after it on his Fall Guy.
Nice table-fakie on some rough banks.
Grass bank to wall-ride.
What else? The Olympics are around the corner, and more than anything, they are serving as a barometer for the times we live in. Which are absolutely crazy. Nike spent a record $2.3 Billion in advertising last year yet just got busted last week for sweat-shop conditions in it's factories. Again. I guess when you spend one dollar in advertising for every eight you earn, there ain't much left over for the product.
Check this out:
All I know is that Saul Williams song they are using is one hell of a jam.
Heat has always played a role in the summer Olympics, and Beijing will certainly be boiling. Unfortunately pollution may play a deciding role in the results. Some US track cyclists had to apologize for wearing pollution masks as the entered China recently. Hey, I've been to industrial Asia more than a few times, and I don't blame them.
This article put this situation in perspective.
"Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski, a tough and tenacious American mountain biker we interviewed for one of our pieces, told us he threw up during his race in Beijing last September because the pollution was so bad. Fifty of the best mountain bikers in the world started that race; eight finished. But American triathlete Matt Reed may have described it best. Reed told us he went for a jog in Beijing, blew his nose, and could see the black pollution that he'd blown out of his body. How's that for an image? The International Olympic Committee has already admitted it might have to reschedule some outdoor events if the pollution is bad in August. That would be a huge embarrassment for the Chinese hosts."
That ain't early morning fog....
It's easy to point fingers at problems. These are crazy times.
-L
posted by Tonic Fab at 8:15 AM
3 Comments:
I don't know why people are so offput by commenting on international injustice? There are a lot of companies like NIKE. They should all be boycotted.
damn
that building looks like they started constructing a stadium, and faced with insurmountable structural problems they got a huge roll of duct tape out and well...went idiocracy on its ass.
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