Tonight we met up for a fixed gear ride. We were 5 riders. We rode along Changan Boulevard and to the National Theater. Jack took some really nice pictures. Then we did a loop via the Financial Street and back East to Snalitun. On the way back we stopped to have some Xinjiang food with lamb skewers and nan. We chained all our bikes together to make this bike pile:
Today we had a meeting to discuss some of the final details of the association of International Performing Arts in China that will be soon formed. The association will be called CIPA. All different kinds of performing arts groups of Beijing are invited to join, for example the Bentationeijing Actors Workshop, the Beijing Improv group, the Beijing Jugglers, Dance groups, Jazz groups… After the meeting we had a short theatrical presentation with actors, dancers and jugglers in Club Obiwan. As I have no nice camera anymore I took these pictures with my mobile phone.
There is an article about me on YNET.com. Click here for the full article.
小红帽看点
“绿色出行 小轮车大赛”引来民间“高手”———
本报讯 延续了“绿色奥运”精神，由本报举办的“骑上小轮车 绿色好出行”活动昨日不仅吸引了众多市民的参与，还迎来了一位特殊的选手——来自德国的工程师，自行车表演艺术家伊泉女士不仅饶有兴味地挑战了“百米赛道”，还现场展示了高难度的车技表演。
来自德国的伊泉女士不仅是一个身体力行的环保人士，也是一位出色的自行车表演艺术家。她从小是一个体操运动员，13岁开始迷上花式自行车，她现在的职业是工程师，４年前来到中国。伊泉住在东大桥，每天骑车到西单金融街上班。
伊泉称她平时骑的是难度较高的固定齿轮车，这种车速度快、轻巧，没有任何刹车等装置，全部靠脚蹬和齿轮来控制骑行，一般用于杂技表演。记者了解到，她是骑固定齿轮车的高手，网上她的车技视频广为流传。
在昨天的地坛书市，伊泉的表演引来了大批市民的围观，“这跟中国杂技很像，但是又不太一样。”一位市民对此很感兴趣，大家对她的表演都报以热烈的掌声，有人怕伊泉不明白，还用英文大喊，“太棒了，谢谢你！”没想到伊泉用标准的中文回答道，“不用谢！”
在大家的鼓励下，伊泉还现场挑战了“小轮车大赛”百米赛道。这是由本报为广大市民量身定做的设有六种障碍的“Ｕ”型赛道，每一站都设有一处特殊的“站牌 ”和诸如鹅卵石、废胶皮之类的路障，选手必须完成从“北京青年报”站到“小红帽”站的整个赛程，用时最短的选手将有可能夺得大奖。
据悉，到目前为止，一位10来岁的小孩创造了20秒左右的纪录，伊泉决定对这个速度发起冲击，一圈下来，25秒，“太慢了！”她显然对自己的成绩不满意。“ 小轮车比赛不见得是成年人或者专业自行车手的强项，它要求体态轻盈和很好的平衡性，小孩子反而有优势。”活动主办方称。
■摄影/本报记者 袁艺
Someone wrote a comment about the book festival in Diatn park on douban.com website. they also made a comment about my trick bike performance.
在方泽坛的前面，来自德国的工程师，自行车表演艺术家伊泉女士正在做精彩的自行车表演：
怎么样，精彩吧，不过千万不要随便模仿哦。
Friends invited us over to play risk. They live in a nice three sided courtyard.
Problem in the beginning was that the key for the room in which the risk was was inside the room itself. But we did manage to retrieve the keys through teh window from the outside.
So we could start the game. It was a really exciting game with lots of negotiations. A few hours later we had delicious roasted beef with mashed potatoes. That went along nicely with the red wine we had been drinking.
Trek organized an introduction to Cyclo Cross racing and training. They held it at the Wenyu riverside in Shunyi. We cycled out and back to the city afterwards as it was such gorgeous weather. Trek gave out Cyclo Cross bikes (similar to road race bikes but with wider rims and tires) as loaners for people like me who do not have one. It was great fun to jump off the bike, jump over barriers, carry the bike uphill and jump back on again. Cyclo Cross riding seems very fun – I am looking forward to teh upcoming race season (6 races).
Wow! This was the first time that I had vegetarian Beijing Duck. They also had delicious vegetarian sweet & sour pork and vegetarian fish and vegetarian fried shrimps as well as vegetarian sausages. The special tea was really nice and it was claimed to be very healthy too.
Some time ago 3 of the Beijing Fixed Gear Crew were interviewed and some pictures were taken. Today an article was posted on YNET in Chinese. It has this nice picture that they took.
Ben, Jason and me got interviewed and photographed for YNET news. It was about how fixed gear bicycle riding started in China and what fixed gear bikes are about. I love the picture they took of me. Here is the article.
伊泉：Fixed Gear Bike的开拓者
2008/10/09 10:21 来源：YNET.com 北青网 39.2℃
Ben说：“我从没想到在北京会遇到伊泉，我在6年前就在网上看到过他表演的视频……”张宸说：“伊泉可是车店老板重点推荐给我的玩家……”如此你知道伊泉有多大的名气了吧，其实她真是一名德国花样单车的演员，她可以在Fixed Gear Bike上做出很多花式动作，把Fixed Gear Bike当作BMX玩，这不是任何人都能做到的。
◎我来自国家队
初见伊泉，她递给我一张名片上面就直接写着：“TRICK BIKE SHOW”，采访间隙伊泉在Fixed Gear Bike上原地玩着各种动作，记者真以为她是个职业表演者。当我确认这个想法时，伊泉才不好意思地拿出另外一张名片，原来走下自行车她是一家外企的亚太区经理。
这样伊泉就生活在两个世界里，Fixed Gear Bike世界和没有Fixed Gear Bike的世界。伊泉原本是一名体操运动员，入选了德国国家队。在德国，如果体操运动员到13岁的时候没有更高的造诣，就要放弃这个项目，而伊泉就是在 13岁遇到了自行车运动，她觉得自己可以在自行车上施展体操才能，就这样，自行车表演成为了她的主业。后来她也入选了德国自行车表演队。
◎Fixed Gear Bike是我面前新的高峰
去年，伊泉在纽约第一次见到了Fixed Gear Bike。第一感觉就是这辆车太酷了，造型简单却有着惊人的速度，最重要的是没有一辆车是相同的。就这样伊泉的车架是靓丽的粉色，这是她精心挑选的颜色喷绘到淘来的古董车架上的。
Fixed Gear Bike是带有手工艺元素的工业产品，因此在欧洲的价格很高。作为一名自行车老玩家，伊泉深得全世界采购Fixed Gear Bike零件的心得，她会给想接触Fixed Gear Bike的人更好的建议。
伊泉在采访间隙总是要摆弄她的自行车，调试各个零件一丝不苟。伊泉说：“我还要适应并且调试这辆车，我觉得Fixed Gear Bike也有很多拓展性，我要把它挖掘出来。”
链接：
Fixed Gear Bike圣经
来自旧金山的世界知名顶尖Fixed Gear Bike潮流单位MASH近期发售的这“MASH SF DVD”，是各位想接触Fixed Gear Bike的朋友或Fixed Gear Bike Rider的必看Video。
影带里每个团员都有各自的影响力，除了各自展示他们高超而有型的Fixed Gear Bike技术，也含概了Fixed Gear Style的衣着及单车改装风格等！这张DVD在MASH的在线购物网开始发售，随DVD附上一本120页印刷精致画册。
详情请登陆：http://www.mashsf.com/
Fixed Gear Bike也ID
Pedalmafia是日本东京以Fixed Gear单车文化为主的设计单位兼品牌，他们的网站上更有一项非常好玩的“PEDAL ID”。有玩过NIKE ID网站的朋友应该就知道，PEDAL ID就是在网上有不同颜色颜色及款式的零件让你自助组装成一辆独一无二的Fixed Gear。来这里体验Fixed Gear Bike ID吧：http://www.pedalmafia.com
Fixed Gear Style
Message Bag：
邮差包是Fixed Gear Style的必需品之一，因为不要妄想简单的Fixed Gear Bike车架会能让你放上背包，而Fixed Gear文化由邮差而来，随身物品一律装在包里，所以玩Fixed Gear Bike必须背Message Bag。
现时持续于东京都占据前列流行位置的自行车搭配Messenger Bag的造型，依然是新季度的潮流指标。而在云云日本流行包包品牌当中，就以HEAD PORTER的Messenger Bag作品最受欢迎。
Vans Sneaker：
Vans鞋适合Fixed Gear Style的原因除了简单方便意外，其尖头造型适合将脚部伸进Fixed Gear Bike的脚蹬里面，以保证骑行的安全性。而原本Vans就是众多街头运动的潮流装备，在异军突起的Fixed Gear Style中怎么少得了Vans呢。
In the past few years that has been an enormous development in Beijing. In so many areas the nice traditional 1 story buildings like the beautiful courtyards have been torn down to give way for more glass high rises. The Financial Street (Jinrong Jie) in Beijing has become longer and longer with more and more office buildings. Most of them still empty. Like these ones next to my office.
Next to is are still towers of typical Chinese residential buildings. They are about 26 stories high and always look the same. Before the Olympics the city put huge efforts to repaint them all. So some look better from the outside – but only at a first glance. This building is what I see from my office.
It is amazing to see that the residents constantly throw things out of the window. And also empty bottles out of the window. So the best is to have a small roof above your window as well as keeping the windows closed at all times (except for when you have trash to throw out) to protect your apartment from falling garbage.
There is somebody who owns pigeons and has a pigeon house on the top of the building. He lets the pigeons out for some flying in the late afternoon every day. But actually I often wonder why there are no wild urban pigeons in Beijing. They are in almost all big cities, especially Western cities.
In case you did not pay attention to the pictures: We have been having gorgeous blue skies here in Beijing. 🙂