what the fuck happened to FGFS part II: the shift and split

when i last left you on this series of essays,  i dove into the origins of FGFS. it was quick, and basically spanned from the days of breaking carbon forks doing keo spins, into breaking everything doing 360 flyouts. now here comes the stuff that will make you either love what i'm saying or hate what i'm saying. get it after the jump.

thursday throwback: joe mckeag for bombtrack and the elusive 720

Joe Mckeag - Welcome to Bombtrack Version 2 from Royal HC on Vimeo.
i saw this pop back up on the interwebs and it got me thinking: i have never seen anyone else even try to match joe's 720. i mean, has anyone even tried to attempt the damn thing? so let's have this settle in for a bit... no one has really gone after this except for joe mckeag. go off and try that shit.

jmik

throwback thursday a day late: track bike times

i had every intention to do a TBT, but never got around to it.... so lets combine throwback thursday with fast bike friday with an old one by matt rice. yes, matt rice. as in deal with it matt rice. steve tortorelli, and jason clary even make an appearance in this.

damn this one goes way back....

jmik

throwback thursday: rumble in the jungle 2009

Rumble In The Jungle from FonsecaFilms on Vimeo.
damn this is almost 4 years ago.  before all the 26" stuff, before all these fixed freestyle companies came around, before anything was really anything, there was this.... the rumble in the jungle. i missed this because it was finals week at school. i'm still kicking myself over that. in this you'll see mark from imd, matt montoya on a bianchi, kris lockedcog on... something, and the legendary ferrer sanders. shit man... remember when we used to get hype over bunnyhops and keos?

jmik

throwback thursday: gnarcotix x iminusd

GNARCOTIX X IMINUSD PROMO from Gnarcotixsf on Vimeo.
when i posted up the destroy bikes mini docuthingy i had the intention of putting this up on here. of course i waited til thursday to put it up. 3 years ago carl dolatre was behind a project known as "gnarcotix"- this was one of their earlier videos. two dudes i want to point out are taylor dwight (pink bike) and rob myers (dude after slaylor). iminusd posted up a #TBT photo on instagram of rob and i had one of those cyborg flashback moments to this exact edit. enjoy.

jmik

screw it, let's do this- throwback thursdays: SF Track/fixed edit

SF Track/Fixed Edit from FonsecaFilms on Vimeo.
alright so i've had a strange feeling for the last year or so doing this blog. originally, this whole thing was supposed to be a blog about the undergrounds of riding track bikes really fast (hence, the name) but over time the focus has shifted wayyyyyy too much into FGFS that it's starting to bother me a little bit. the unfortunate thing is, the stuff i wanted to originally cover is considered "old school" so fuck... i'm gonna go off and do my own shit and post some "old school" shit that really inspired me back then. maybe i'll be able to breathe some new life into some shit, and some of these young'ns starting out straight up on 26" FGFS can learn something. i mean, i have a ton of them in my head i want to revisit anyway.

so here's goes the inagural throwback thursday (i want to warn you, i'm just a dude, and i'll probably forget from time to time but it's gonna happen) and i want to start out with one of the first videos of fixed gear i saw when i was starting out. chris fonseca may have stepped out of the fixed gear world, but his impact of fixed gear 3-4 years ago pretty much changed the face of FGFS and fixed riding in general. without him we wouldnt have had met people like jason clary, jakob santos, daniel torres, joel weston and the fakie wheelie, everyone in gnarcotix, boothby- pretty much everyone that was in the bay area pre-san jose blow up. this one featured names like james newman (he had a part in macaframa, if you can remember), jason clary, the fonseca himself, and donald arrodondo.

jmik