Toshi Double Straps

Bought some white toshi double straps, soma quad cages and mks sylvans from Jonathan k-town Tran aka bill tran. for CHEAPS

toshi's are about can range from 100-140 for a pair of double straps, and being a broke college student i jumped on this opportunity so quickly i forgot that i hate white double straps, they're just plain ugly and get dirty too quickly. Being the crafty guy i am i just colored them with sharpie. Yup

these were all sharpies i found around the house, no i didn't go thru 6 brand new ones, but these are all out of ink, im gonna go buy more and color it in darker, looks legit.

Blogging Mood

I haven't blogged in a long time and the last one was pathetically half assed.. it was actually half assed-half assed. Mostly because i've been sick last time i posted. Anyway i'm in a blogging mood and i probably won't update this for a while after this.

I also got a job as a fan photographer at Printroom/VIP Fan Photograhy, it's not as cool as it sounds, but still pretty damn cool. Thanks for hooking it up Jared, bluud"

Let's start with.. NEW BIKE PARTS!

Sugino Zen 52t Chainring, compared to my old 48t

Suzue Pro Max hubs to DT Swiss, sooo smooth

like my new water bottle cage? Super ghetto but it works

Just a regular water bottle cage i tied with extra toe straps to my saddle and seat post.

It slips a little, i might upgrade the straps to toshi doubles..hahaa!

Thyna Mao has been kind enough to let me borrow his road bike for the SJBC Winter Series. Gonna try to buy it soon.

I won these doo-hickeys at Devon Hunter's South Side SJ alleycat

Cadence doublizers, i doubt i'll ever use em, wanna buy em?

And a u-lock belt holder thing, my lock is too big to use it

Bought this pump a while ago, but never blogged about it, it's badass, pumps mega fast up to 300 psi or some shit ridiculously high

New Jersey for street wear, it's a size large euro, meaning it's more like a medium in regular sizing, it fits but it's almost like a skin suit.

New TNF Jacket, love this thing

Also bought some new glasses from Martine at the SJF Bike Swap, as Martine would say "These glasses man, ughh, get outta my way" i couldn't describe them better myself, he even hooked it up with some extra lenses that cost about 50 dollars each. Got the whole set for 50, thanks Martine.

Some Numbers

Last but not least, a present for my 19th birthday, which was a couple of months ago, from my girlfriend Nerrisa

a book with a bunch of pictures we took on our many adventures, thank you baby!

Very cool and creative, a perfect gift if you ask me!

that's all for now.

My Halloween

At the risk of looking like everyone else's blog...

Halloween was fucking fun, I was sick the whole week before though, and barely got well enough to get out of bed on friday oct. 30th, then fucked up the whole recovery process on halloween

The day started a SJF Alleycat

Of course, the heavy hitters took the podium starting with

Tim the tornado Tsuruda winning first, the prize of 90 dollars, a tshirt, tubes and a whole lot of stuff i don't really remember. point is, come out to the next alleycat, the prizes were nice.

Marc Marino 2nd

Martine the big gear in 3rd

i got 13th hah

i'm pretty sure that's right, anyway here are some pics by AnnaMarie...

to be honest i really don't feel like finishing this post. just look at the boss pics and videos taken by boss people and be happy and go ride your bike.

AM Pics

Jared Pics

also, there were goldsprints and Darin Wade's place, big thanks goes out to him and his roomies and Mark from IMD for hosting and everyone involved and making it happen.

AM Pics

Shooting Range

Last Friday my girlfriend Nerrisa and I went to Target Master's shooting range. My 15 years of living in Milpitas and I never knew there was a shooting range so close to home, and it's fun.

New Bike!!

Well not really, new track set ups though

Suntour Superbe Pro Hubs laced to Sun Mistral, need to fix the front tubular since it leaks, but these hubs are butttaah...but what else did i get..

Yup.. HED 3 and a Arione Saddle

Sprint Tournament

Sprint Tournament Footage from 9/20/2009
I forgot stats, but i think my fastest 200m was 13.77, but while racing Annabell Holland and Thyna Mao, Holland's computer read 38 MPH, and we were at least 1 bike ahead of her, possibly sub 13s? on 9/22/2009 i hit 13.25, all time fastest 200m for me, i'll get there next season.

won


Lost to Annabell Holland, she said we ran a 13 flat according to her computer! 37 MPH
Learned a lot from this pro racer, see how she kept me on the outside the whole time?


Lost to Thyna Mao? He is way faster than i am, but the video was way too close to tell, i think officially i won, but if i did Thyna backpedaled, i heard the announcer say "Mr Prado"


Won, Rex, you gotta gear up bro! you would've had me

Fucked up

It's been a herra rong time since i've posted. My computer broke, but i plan on getting a macbook pretty soon, shieet maan!! but bad news is that most of my pics are gone, including the ones from Hellyer Velodrome Friday Night Races on September 4th hosted by SJF. I have a lot of exciting new things and also a lot of exciting events. i'll be hogging my sister's computer til then.