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Thursday, July 26, 2012

BHSK goes places: SJFixed Redemption Critierium

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last week's sunday, i found myself lying on my couch when i got a phone call from sean at destroy bikes. apparently there was a criterium put on by my local sjfixed crew and he along with kenny arimoto was going to root for their rider, josue. so i got my ass up, strapped on a camera and made my way to the shark tank to document it. see more after the jump!




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i showed up right before things got started, and there was already a good amount of people ready to race. the community here is really dispersed in terms of skill and setups. i was already messing up because i seriously should have entered.
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here's the start.forgive me if it was blurry- i really didnt expect people to get off the line so quickly! i'm used to shooting fixed freestyle which is a lot slower!
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as you can see from the initial shots, i had to adapt quickly to capture the sheer speed that these guys (and girl) were going. the first few were garbage, but i think i got the hang of it after a minute...
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LOL TANNER, YOU'RE NOT RACING YOU SILLY GOOSE. GTFO.....
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the kid chasing took a nasty spill first lap out. then he got back up and did the race. hard core.
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this is josue. he's from east palo alto. he's a badass. you see the look of disdain and concentration on the others, but josue is smiling. yeah, that's frickin bad-asssss.
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shaun, josue, and andrew were like this the whole time and even lapped the field.
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this is where our homie got serious. after drafting in second for the entirety of the race, we yelled that it was the last lap, and he hit it hard.
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destroy celebrates.
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winning all the premes was shaun remy. he won some (really good i might add) raisin bread, 5 bucks and a print of san jose's famous maurice.
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kelly was the only girl out there so she walked away with a print of maurice's leg.
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first place went to josue acosta.
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second place went to andrew aguilar.
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shaun remy to third place.
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fourth went to adam belz.
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jesus lee took fifth.
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helias alvarado took sixth.
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chris estrada took seventh
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sherm took eighth.
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this guy didnt place but he did 3 extra laps because we told him to. we're not bad people so he went away with a shirt.
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those are patches. i swear.
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i actually had a lot of fun shooting this. there are fixed gear things that ARENT FGFS in san jose, and i think people forget that!

jmik

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