17.1.2011 von Ines.

On December 10th 2010 we decorated the LiNing and YOHO fixed gear event called “Bike Boy” with our Natooke parts.

Here is a video of the fixed gear event Bike Boy and Natooke that was on Chinese MTV. Only the first 2 min are really about the event where we provided all the bikes and fixie parts as decoration. Also you see me a few times doing some tricks outside on my fixed gear bike the day before the event as well at the event.

Here is another TV clip of the Fixed Gear event.

There is also a online newspaper article about the event with pictures of Natooe fixed gear bike parts and me doing bicycle tricks on my track bike:

李宁2010 Fixed Gear产品系列新品发布

体育用品网|http://www.3spo.com  [2011-01-13]

国际知名运动品牌李宁与国内首席潮流媒体YOHO！潮流志共同联手，在北京竞园艺术中心为走在时尚尖端的潮人们带来了2010年度最刺激的Fixed Gear主题派对—LININGxYOHO! Bike Boy Game。

2010年12月10日晚，国际知名运动品牌李宁与国内首席潮流媒体YOHO！潮流志共同联手，在北京竞园艺术中心为走在时尚尖端的潮人们带来了2010年度最刺激的Fixed Gear主题派对—LININGxYOHO! Bike Boy Game。

而今作为国际运动品牌巨头的李宁，不仅一直专注于在专业运动产品的发展，近几年也快速发展潮流系列产品。当晚PARTY以解读Fixed Gear的文化作为活动主题，将全场氛围营造成了一个Fixed Gear的主题俱乐部，而派对中最大亮点莫过于国内运动品牌巨头李宁的全新Bike Boy产品系列——此产品系列2011年春正式投放市场，该系列产品以亮丽，时尚图案和色彩、舒适的运动面料为主要特点，被热爱潮人运动的年轻人所追捧并 为国内的自行车爱好者们提供炫酷产品。此外，PARTY现场更吸引了国内众多的知名Fixed Gear玩家的参与，其中更是包括北京NATOOKE团队，台湾Nabiis团队，香港HK FIxed团队，广州FAVOR团队，杭州WHM团队，，深圳B&J团队。而他们精湛帅酷的单车技巧动作，也成为了当晚活动的一大亮点，加之国际 一流搓盘高手DJ WORDY的现场音乐助兴，当红潮流艺人柯有伦的到场力挺，以及MC孔令奇和滑板黑社会创始人RAPH的现场RAP表演更是让当晚活动热到爆棚。

Fixed Gear Bike来自New York Old School单车文化，最初由Messenger快递工作者而发起的快速单车文化，在日本原宿流行后，就开始快速在全世界蔓延，成为街头文化的代 表，Fixed Gear Bike运动和Fixed Gear Bike造型开始大受欢迎。

国际知名运动品牌李宁与国内首席潮流媒体YOHO！潮流志共同联手，在北京竞园艺术中心为走在时尚尖端的潮人们带来了2010年度最刺激的Fixed Gear主题派对—LININGxYOHO! Bike Boy Game。

当晚的派对于晚上七点钟开始，一开场的街舞表演就给在场的观众一次视觉的和听觉冲击，节奏感强烈的伴奏音乐以及舞者力度俱佳的热辣表演立刻点燃了观众的热情。接下来的李宁品牌与 涂鸦艺术家们跨界合作Fixed Gear涂鸦自行车的展示环节中，每一件涂鸦艺术品的独特创意和完美的图案设计都让在场观众赞叹不已，在李宁Bike Boy系列产品的展示环节中，更是大胆的启用了由潮人们自编自导的一场特别fashion show，让人耳目一新的同时更加表现出了产品别样的酷帅风格。 各路Fixed Gear行侠高超的技艺表演， 加上DJ WOODY劲爆的音乐和主持人孔令奇、raph的即兴RAP解说，让现场气氛几近沸腾。而在随后的PARTY中，Fixed Gear玩家们更是尽兴的在场地中玩乐，让现场变成了一个Fixed Gear的天堂，伴随着动感的音乐，当晚的活动一直持续到深夜。

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13.1.2011 von Ines.

Today the Flying Banana bike frames for the Jisu PK races arrived. They look so beautiful. We ordered them in the Olympic colors (except black). We are going to build them up for the first race that will be held on Saturday Jan 15th organized by STC. Natooke is sponsoring the bikes

Shannon put together this cool JisuPK promo video from some of teh events where we set up this kind of race last year. But last year we used cheaper bikes. I am so looking forward to JisuPk with these new frames.

Also a few weeks back Beijing TV came to film about “Smarter than Car”. I was not there, but you can watch the STC BTV special footage here.

Today was also one of these typical days at Natooke. A lady walks in and says “I write for the magazine “Business Times”. Please do some tricks on your bike now”. It is nice to get this attention from the media, but I do have to smile when I get asked to do bicycle tricks like that. Of course I was wearing my high heel boots and not really the clothes for tricks. But it is enough to do stunts to impress the photograpgers and editors or cameramen. I never would have thought that my 21 years of practice would be so useful one day  If I would have said 5 years ago when I did one of my last bicycle competitions that “One day I will be doing bike tricks on the streets of Beijing for business magazines” nobody would have believed me. Life is fun!

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11.1.2011 von Ines.

Jiangsu TV station invited me to go to Nanjing to perform my bike tricks for a TV show. The hosts of the show were Li Ai (李艾) and Peng Yu (彭宇).

The show was recorded and will be broad casted next month. I am looking forward to watching it. Here is a picture of the talented host Li Ai and me after the show:

My friend Berta Tilmantaite from Lithuania who is studying photo journalism came with me to film my tricks for her short film project. You can see some of her work on her vimeo channel. She also took some amazing pictures. I only saw a few of them but as always I love how she captures the atmosphere extremely well.

This following picture is me falling asleep after receiving the show outline in Chinese late at night and then trying to translate and understand what I need to do or say on the TV show which took me till 2am and then having to get up at 5am for the early morning flight to Nanjing. And when we arrived at the TV station studio somehow nobody took care of us so I just fell asleep in the make up room. Even the make up girls on the other side were bored too.

And this is me after a hectic “there is no time for you to get any food for lunch” and “get your make up on quickly” concentrating and trying out what kind of tricks I can do on my bicycle in the TV studio before the show started.

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6.1.2011 von Ines.

My plane had just barely landed when I received a call from TimeOut. An editor from TimeOut wanted a short interview about our fixed gear bike club. She said it will be published in the February edition.

Today we found that we are listed on a website called PCPOP. They must have come to our shop in September 2010 looking at the pictures they uploaded. Here is the link to the full article. They wrote very detailed in Chinese about our store in Beijing and took nice pictures. Here are some:

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21.12.2010 von Ines.

China Radio International (CRI) came a week ago to film Shannon and me regarding our “Smarter than Car” (STC).

Here is the link to the video CRI made introducing what our mission in Beijing is. They wrote:

Beijing is a city made for cycling. There are designated bike lanes. You can lock up your two-wheeler almost anywhere. And, the city is as flat as a pancake. So why is Beijing jam-packed with vehicles? An organization called “Smarter Than Car” is trying to change that. It is reviving pedal power in the city. Liu Bing reports.

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13.12.2010 von Ines.

Here is the link to a video of the Bike boy event. It is not really good quality but gives an impression of the event where Natooke provided all the bikes and bike parts.

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12.12.2010 von Ines.

I was invited to the CCTV10 Green Space (Green Life) talkshow to talk about cycling in Beijing as an environmentally friendly transportation method and a green lifestyle. It was a very nice show called “I love riding bike”. Have a look at this program, but it is all in Chinese and we only talk. Click on the following image to see the video:

绿色空间 2010年 第238期 我爱骑车

首播时间：2010年12月12日14:00
首播频道：CCTV-10
所属栏目：绿色空间
所属分类：科教台自然
关  键  字：骑车出行  解读  绿色出行  看法  体会  环境资源

本期节目主要内容：本期节目请来自行车俱乐部发起人孙健和三联生活周刊的撰稿人袁越一起来对骑车出行做另类的解读，骑车作为一种被倡导的绿色出行方式，在 华居住多年的德国前室内自行车运动员伊泉和韩国健美教练赵守镇对于目前在中国骑车出行又有怎样的看法和体会，本期节目和主持人一起讨论骑车出行，倡导珍惜 环境资源。

There were 4 guests on this talk show. First Sun Jian and the author of Life Week Yuan Yue do travel together on bicycle. Cycling is started to become a way to do green traveling in China. Then a South Korean girl that does not cycle and me (Ines Brunn) were invited to speak about cycling in Beijing comparing it to other countries around the world.

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17.11.2010 von Ines.

Our shop is getting so famous that we do not even know when there is a new article in a newspaper or magazine or again something on TV. 2 friends had mentioned they saw us in a magazine called Ming 明日风尚. Today Echo brought the November 2010 edition of the magazine that Tom had found.

It is a very nice article about Federico and me and our shop. It is in the “Good Life” section of the magazine and has the main title “Retail Star”.

Another friend mentioned that there is also an article in the high speed train magazine. I remember being interviewed for that. I hope I can see the article soon.

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4.11.2010 von Ines.

Finally we have a page on facebook for Natooke. We have pictures of the bikes that we built up in the Natooke store in Beijing. Please check them out!

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25.10.2010 von Ines.

There was a short clip about the second audition for the Beijing TV 2011 Spring Festival Global Gala shown on TV 2 days ago. Here is a link to the TV video. The section about me and Yu Changqing starts at 3min 18sec. I hope we can be selected to perform our bike tricks for the big gala show during Chinese New Year.

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