2004 - Rennen Rollenlager + .243 with 24"s and 26"s

Rennen Rollenlager was a godsent at the time when people were just starting to ditch their derailleurs in favor of the singlespeed drivertrain as far as MTB street/park/dirt riding is concerned. All the "Urban Assault" capable frames had vertical dropouts - making dialing in a nice tight chain a pain in the ass, without a tensioner.

Scroll through the pictures, and below you will see Soul Cycles singlespeed device (or something like that) - and you will notice how bent to shit it is. Hint: its not built tough enough for grinding on it. Now take a good look at the Rennen device - tough as hell, grinding encouraged. Quality. Below you will also find yet another variation of my .243, both with 24" and 26" wheels. I loved that bike.

A fun fact - see those Hussefelt cranks? Taken from my Kona Stuff, onto the .243 and they are STILL being used to this day on my Transition Bottlerocket. How is that for making parts last, or riding like a bitch. Either or.

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C2D Viewer Submitted Photo Contest

There comes a time when a ballerific website such as ours needs to step back, take a look at what we’ve achieved, and then give back to the little people that got us here.    For every gold plated drug kingpin 45 Accatone buys we need to think about young Jimmy in Nebraska clickin on those ad’s.   Whenever Curtis adds another tricked out 50cc scooter to his collection, we need to thank Javier down in Lima (global shun!).   I won’t go into details on the interns and their trips to the NAMBLA districts of Thailand, but I will remind them that this is their final warning.  And me?  I don't have any vices...

The point I am trying to drive home here, is that we need to give back, and what better way than with a user submitted photo contest.   The theme, to take a picture that captures the C2D spirit.   Send it in, we’ll post em up, and have all the viewers vote in a poll.   The winner will get a prize pack full of hip T-shirts, hip hop musical CDs, reggae musical CDs, stickers, maybe some sweat bands, etc…     (the last contest winner won 2 pairs of sneakers and some books!!)   Original photos only, none of that google image search shit.   Send pics and your info to createtodestroy@gmail.com

And yes, “the spirit of C2D” means you can send in photos of whatever the hell you want, so have fun with it.   We’ll be accepting submissions for 30 days, so get em in while you can (July 22nd).  Multiple submissions are allowed.   Voting will take place once all submissions are posted up.

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Gearing

Many ways to skin a cat, but this is one of them.

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VVC Force 2009 Video is Murderous

VVC Force regularly kills it with all sorts of shit. Its like TheComeUpBMX but where everyone is actually just having fun and likes each other. This video is awesome. Makes me want to put my 20 on the shelf and spend more time on the big bike.

VVC FORCE 09 from Paul Chupakabura on Vimeo.

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