5th Birthday/Grand Re-Opening Party: Pics!

So for those of you that made it to the party, thank you so much for celebrating with us. For those of you that couldn't make it, not to fear. The newest memeber of our BRevs family, JP Bevins, captured some "special moments" to share with all of you.

Here are a few of my personal favorites, you can see the rest of his party photos HERE.

The Maypril Fools Bicycle Revolutions Boutique Checkpoint!

What a great weekend! Thanks to RE Load for putting together another successful event. The Boutique hosted a checkpoint, we managed to get quite a few Fools in looking for POINTS! The deal was you had to draw a portrait of your bicycle in crayon. The our panel of judges would critique your portrait and decide if you got 20, 40 or 60 points. Those who were most creative and had the most colors and elements to their portrait got the most points.

Mr. Houser got maximum points for his use of elements and the added Haiku, even though it was plagiarized. He went on to win the overall big prize! Congrats Brett.

This Foolish racer, Darian, got max points as well. His bike was in the woods, for real. He went on to get the second Big Prize of the day! Congrats to him, enjoy the orange wheels.

Andy Zalen was in town looking for points as well. I have known this dude for the better part of two decades. Damn I'm getting old. He is the poster boy for DC Couriers, and international messenger super star. He is definitely one of the people keeping the dream alive. Check him out, he is making it happen.

And then Brutaltron arrived. Thanks for bringing all of your friends Ralph...

And of course we were very happy to see some of our BRevs alumni. Miss Megs showing off some of her creativity for maximum points!

So much fun! And to end the weekend at Tattoo Mom's for Cycle Sunday and the World Premier of Bootleg Sessions 4. There was a little riding and lots of beer drinking.

You can check out some more photos HERE. Thanks again to everybody for playing and having FUN! Keep an ear out for our next Art event which will be highlighting the cream of the crop from the bicycle portraits.

Sunday Cruisin'

Met up with my pal Adam, it has been a while since we got to hang. He just moved back to the city and we figured we would take a spin and play catch up. So we rolled out on our Cinelli's down to FDR.

Nice spot to ride around the lake and stop to enjoy the breeze.

FDR neighbors I-95 and is home to one badass skate park.

I wasn't about to carve the concrete on my Super-Corsa Pista, but there were plenty of kids out shredding on this awesome Sunday afternoon.

After we left the park we rolled up Broad St and hit up this new-ish coffee spot Ultimo, very good coffee, I can understand why everybody has been talking about this place.

It was great to get out and stretch the legs a bit and catch up with a good friend. When I work six days a week, gotta take advantage of Sunday!

Party Time! Thanks for an amazing night.

-Photo By Melissa Rae Kurzenski
Wow, what a night! Thanks to all of you who cam out to show your love. And I will just go ahead and apologize for anything I might have said or done, it was all in good fun...

The cake chef putting on some finishing touches, can't believe they finished assembling it on site.

The Classic Cakes crew isn't fooling around. That cake looked and tasted amazing, stop by tomorrow and help us finish it, please.

-Photo by Mara Moranz

NOM NOM NOM, Heather and I sound like that when we eat cake.

-Photo By Jorge Brito

And Steve just started eating everything in sight, chainrings and all!

The whole cake thing was filmed by Banyan Productions and will be aired on TLC June 11th, mark your calendars. It was such a fun night, can't wait to see what our 5th anniversary party looks like, this one is going to be tough to top.

Also, we spent the day today hanging with Wilis and Mary, check out the story here.

Monster Track, Bringing Old Friends Together And Making New Ones

The best part for me about going to alleycats and messenger events are the the friends, new and old that you don't get to see everyday. The ever growing family of like minded individuals. The people who open their homes and hearts to you at a moments notice. These moments are priceless and eternal, and for that I am grateful.

Wilis and his lady friend Mary opened their home to us for the weekend. Wilis worked with us at BRevs for a little while before moving on to NYC. He has met an awesome lady that seems to be a good match for him. They took great care of us and here is a pic of Wilis making us eggs and potatoes for breakfast.

Fast Eddie is a NYC cultural icon. His book "Bike Messengers Life New York City" has documented the NYC messenger community in a visually stimulating and endearing way.

Felipe, The King! He is not just another NYC messenger, he is a character. He is funny and youthful and still fast as hell.

Then there is SQUID! He has become the face of the NYC bike messenger. He has worked with the Puma cycling team and is still working on the road every day with Cycle Hawk messenger service. Squid is also a new dad, congrats!

And then there is Super Ted. Frame builder for his brand Shop 14 Bike Co. And fixed gear freestyle monster. This guy is a bulldog, there is no stopping him. We just met thursday night at Philly's Water Street Session and then we got some more time to hang at Monster Track. This is one happy fun guy, looking forward to throwing a few more back with him in the future.

There are many stories to tell, I will do my best to pick a few more good ones to share in the next few days. Some videos that I need to edit into bite sized servings for general consumption. But the people that were there and the love that was shared was simply amazing. A nice reminder when the day to day life gets to be cold and dark, there are bright sunny faces just waiting to warm your heart.

Party Time! Thanks for coming out last night.

We are really happy that everybody could make it out despite the weather. So good to see friendly faces again, it's been a long cold winter.

There was pizza, trying to get Nate to fill out his sister's jeans...

I "tattooed" Matty, our favorite sales slut.

Just about everybody showed up, who wasn't going to NAHBS.

Even got the Old Heads to turn up, got to show these younginz how it's done. I think we planned a Veteran's Alley Cat for spring time, I better start training I think I said I was going to win. At least the last time I said that, I did!

Good times, it was really good to see everybody last night and kick off our art series for 2010. See you at the next opening...

A classic reincarnated.

This bike stumbled into our shop a little while ago for some long overdue lovin. It was once the beloved bike of Mr. John Eustice US Pro Champ 1982. He passed it along to one of the junior racers he was coaching in the late 80's. Paul, the current owner and former pupil of Eustice, had raced the crap out of it and had long since retired it. Paul decided to fixer up as a single speed to ride about town. I happened to run into John at interbike and told him that the bike was in my shop and was being repurposed. Needless to say he was jealous and wanted it back, I guess that's between them now. I love little pieces of bike history like this, thought i'd share it with you tonight.

OMG! It's Meghan!

It has been too damn long since we have seen you! While Meghan is becoming the next Warhol at RISD, we miss her energy and excitement.