19.6.2010 von Ines.

Today the different movie programs of the BFF were well attended. Especially the “Urban Bike Film”. There was a huge line in front of the movie theater.

And when we got in all the seats were filled up.

There was an alleycat race today and the prize ceremony was held before the Urban Bike Short films started.

And then there was a bikes rock cheering for the 10th year anniversary before Brendt was sent on some movie theater crowd surfing.

It was funny to see this bike outside with this huge spoke card.

I liked this card for a pregnant woman. I think if I am pregnant I will hang one on each of my bikes too.

The bicycle film festival girls had arranged the great after party on this Saturday.

I  did a late night performance in the hope that the people watching the second screening of the urban bike shorts could also come in time to watch. But I think only a small fraction of those came in time. And the one DJ lady forced me to perform exactly at 1am.

Here is the video of my bicycle performance that Nora took capturing the feeling of the event. I love the song Fire by Jess Meider.

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19.6.2010 von Ines.

The bicycle film festival street party in New York was really great this year. Mainly because it was not raining so there were many people hanging out. Also there were quite some booths of local vendors. Like local frame builders that make bikes like this one.

Also Taliah Lempert (who does bicycle paintings and who’s exhibition I had gone 2 days ago) had a booth at the street party.

The fixed gear competitions were MC’d by John Prolly that has a famous blog called prollyisnotprobably.com.

They had ramps built up and there were quite some fixie kids jumping around. One of course was Ed Wonka Laforte that was in Tokyo with me last November.

Jumping around on the ramps was also Kareem Shehab who filmed the Death Pedal movies 1 and 2.

I randomly recorded the fixed gear ramp jumping on a video and will uploaded soon.

Then there was the bunny hop contest. It is amazing how high they can jump with the fixed gear bikes.

I did a performance at this street party. It was a good crowd that watched me do my bike tricks.

I did headstand and handstand and all my other tricks like the 180 spin while standing on the handlebar. I uploaded some more pictures on a webalbum.

Also it was great to finally meet Tom Mosher that started up the first forum on track tricks. Unfortunately he had an accident and needs to recover before he can re-start hard with tricks.

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