Prolly is not Probably Chat

There was a chunk of snow in NYC recently, so I decided to ride in right after the storm. Being proud of the fact that I was the only (as far as I could tell) biker braving the piles of fresh snow at 7am, I just had to let someone know. I had to share my glory. Preferably with a biker who would understand and appreciate the feat. The person on the receiving end of the boasting was no one other then John, the man behind the mighty sweet ProllyIsNotProbably, a fixed gear freestyle focused blog with oodles of lifestyle/fashion/music/fun mixed in. C2D been meaning to interview Prolly for a long long time, but between this, that, and his not so recent departure to Austin for the winter, that interview been put on hold. So what follows below is a pre-interview Google Chat style.

C2D: sup yo! nyc had a blizzard and i just rode in. i was the only biker i saw today. people were lookin at me like i'm nuts

Prolly:  nice! I kinda miss the sense of entitlement I got in snow. I never bought a train pass in 4 years. rode every day in, regardless. But I gotta say, I love the 60-degree and sunny weather i've got now, haha

 C2D:  hell yea! now you're getting soft, riding in a tshirt in january!  btw, that mishka paintjob is clean. good stuff!

 Prolly:  hell yeah

 C2D:  love that grey

 Prolly:  i love that bike, the paint is immaculate

 C2D:  so when are you back in nyc? or are you getting married, kids and settling out there in Texas?

 Prolly:  hah, back in march, but I gotta say, I love it here. i wanna get back into Arch. and NYC's scene is dead. Austin's economy is thriving and the architecture is right up my alley, modern with a hands-on feel.

 C2D:  thats awesome! austin has the most rediculous bike scene too. some wild bmx dudes out there. aaron ross, who's pretty much the best EVAR

 Prolly:  yeah and Chase Hawk. T-1 is nuts dude, being there in person, watching those dudes kill it. chase's tire slides over the spine, crazy.  it's intimidating to show up on a track bike

 C2D:  u ride your 20 out there at all? i bet its intimidating as hell, did u end up bulding one?

 Prolly:  i haven't got it yet, Seth is slammed

 C2D:  i bet. chase's tire slides over the spine? he tire slides the top of spine?? jesus

 Prolly:  yeah, it's in his last video, he also does turndown wall slides on the vert, rediculous

 C2D:  just wow, i prefer that so much more to all the backflip tailwhip flailing. would they even let u ride your fixed there? but i guess, would you even attempt that there?

Prolly:  I wouldn't want to, that shit's gay, haha

 C2D:  ha!!

Prolly:  i like riding street and mellow parks with my fixed, not indoor shit, i'd rather skate it

 C2D:  u skate?

 Prolly:  i grew up skating, only stopped 4 years ago when i got more into cycling, fucked my ankle up and i couldn't ride my fixed to work, so I decided to chill

 me:  i hear ya, i'm not even crazy into fixed but somewho someway your blog is the first one i check everyday. u must be doin something rite! keep up the good work!

Prolly:  dude, I hear that all the time

funny shit, even from 50-year old snobby collectors, haha, thanks homie

 C2D:  def!

 Thanks man! Good stuff. Full on, well constructed and more informative interview, coming in the future. THE FUTURE I tell yee!

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Grime Bicycles

Grime is a fixed gear clothing company that started up just a few short months back and just got around to putting their first frame out there. 26" wheel specific frame. I like the looks of it. Built up, it looks like a beefy old school MTB with chunky tires - if I didn't know it was fixed I would think its a sweet commuter with a coaster brake. Not exactly sure how I feel about the name of the frame, a bit close to Yowelli, but I'm sure there is plenty of Yo's out there for everyone. I must admit, I love the looks. While FGFS might not be for me because its nearly impossible to do, I always appreciate someone doing bad ass business on any bike. Grime rider Wonka kills it in a shot below, which I swiped from Prolly's site - its a good one. Makes me want to get my Capital out there and hop some shit and take some pics. Just want to say sorry to all of my bikes, the god damn Malum is just too damn fast and easy to ride.

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Coolest Model Bike Ever

This is by far the coolest thing I have ever seen. This is an important bike as far as cycling history is concerned - but I must be honest, I don't know much about that. What I do know is that this is a 1:9 METAL model of a ridiculously detailed bike. I LOVE building models, so when I came across this on Prolly Is Not Probably I wanted it - but the 500$ ebay price tag for this collectors item pushed me away a bit, since thats about 25 of these model kits, which are almost as sweet. Anyway, enough talk, check out the pics.



Check out all the detail. Spokes, gears, tires, chain.

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Get that Exacto knife and Glue ready

Michael Johansson is the man behind this amazing piece and I love it on many different levels. When I first spotted this on Prolly I immediately thought to myself - YES! FINALLY a plastic bike model kit! I love these things! I wonder what other bikes there are in the series..........DAMN :(

This this is a 1:1 scale installation. Amazing, but unfortunately not plastic to cut out and glue together. Upon closer inspection, it's a real disassembled bike. Doesn't make this any less awesome, but deep down it was a bit of a let down for me. Regardless, if you enjoy this even a 1/10 of how much I did, you just might pee your pants. I did.

"As a child I was fascinated building models. I remember breaking off the pieces from the surrounding plastic sticks that were leftover from the casting process and subsequently gluing the pieces back together in the right order by following the instruction manual.

A real bike is turned back into a space of imagination. By this I wanted to address the similarities between different contexts and spin concepts such as size and belonging."

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NY GLOCK

sorry prolly, thats two things i stole from your blog it two days, but this is nifty.

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What are you gonna do??? - The Bike Fame

Looks like my bike is a bit famous, nothing new or surprising really, she's a god damn beaut. Sleek. Fast. Erotique. This past week she was featured on TonicFab News and on Prollyisnotprobably, as well a million other places, more then likely, but C2D just doesn't have time to search the webs for references. We're grindin over here. Grindstatin.

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Superbowl Sunday Brooklyn Street Ride

the first official group ride of 2009. big turnout. 3 fallguys present, how about that - that never happens. arcade bmx was present with all of it pretty steep/short geo as well as 2 other 20's. a 26 rigid mob and a bottlerocket. we even had some fixed gear fellas ride with us for a bit - one of them runs a pretty neat fixed freestyle blog prollyisnotprobably.
it was a great time and we snapped a handful of shots. check em out.

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