West to Percy

Haunted Ride to the Eastside

Anthony Cozzi - "Dead Wheelie"

Saturday, October 24, 2009 at 8:00pm
The Villager Tavern
1719 21st Ave S

Meet up in the Village. If you get there early, get a seat at the Villager Tavern. At 8:30 we ride to the Shelby Street Pedestrian Bridge for refreshments. Then whenever we feel like it we will make our way to the Devil's Dungeon Haunted House. After we will tell ghost stories and have some more refreshments on the Shelby Street Bridge.

Haunted House Admission - $12

i will be bringing $1 off coupons for everyone or you can print your own.

If you want just come and ride and hang at the bridge.
Basically; cheap beer, good times, halloween fun, riding bikes = Skumlife

Bring party favors, and lets scare the shit out of Nashville. Yey!

Turning Tricks Week 11

Turning Tricks – Week 11 from KrEEEstowfUr on Vimeo.

Where the Wild Things Ride

Yesterday's Where the Wild Things Ride was a definite success! We all met up at Halcyon, rode downtown to the Shelby Street Bridge, and crossed the river over to the Greenway. After a stop for some water at the Nature Center we rode through the Greenway to Opry Mills, ate some delicious lunch, and then watched Where the Wild Things Are on IMAX. We had a great turnout and the ride ended up being a lot more fun than I had even anticipated. More pictures here on Keef's Flickr.

Google Maps, The "Bike There" Option, and You.

For those of you who missed the recent post on this. Google has been widespread with new mapping vehicles (Street View Trike). Good for Google, but better for us. Not only is Google showing the international cycling community some serious love, they are updating the accessibility of their entire mapping system. Can someone say, "Upgrade!"? Google is in the process of mapping areas which cannot be reached by car. They are also asking the public to help. Google is currently (until an Oct 28th cutoff date) accepting suggestions of where to send the SVT (Street View Trike). Let's do what we can and get the Middle Tennessee Greenways, The Four Natchez Trails, and Local Park trails on the list. This not only will help us get Nashville and the Greater Nashville area more accessible to cyclists unfamiliar with the area, but also (I think) provide us with an awesome "bike there" option which might (fingers crossed) take into account elevation. This will add a fourth option to "the quickest route" in addition to walking (shortest distance), fastest w/highways, and fastest w/out highways. I don't know about you but i personally would like to know if I'm going the right way w/out having to ask Whit or Mike Crouch. So let's get on the horn. Contact Google and suggest locations for the SVT to ride and document (most importantly the Greenways). Let's make Nashville, Tennessee, America, and the world a better place to cycle. Thanks.

MurFreesboro Bike Night

MFBN IV from Natalie Newberry on Vimeo.

Other wise known as Mother Fucking Bike Night. The bicyclists of Murfreesboro gather to ride their second favorite form of transportation around town every Thursday night (weather permitting). While milkshakes and slushies aren't exactly my thing, we decided to pack up the SUV and make a trip out to the "Boro" to hang with the kids and see what the fuss was all about. The first trip was exciting enough. High points included being told that I needed to pick up speed to get up a hill that I then rode up with no hands (look ma!), tricking Devan into thinking that the town square was the same one from Back to the Future, and the foot down comp (if only they knew we had to wear teflon vests in Nashville to play).

After getting the feeling that this ride was a little like a G-rated version of Nashville Critical Mass, we decided to spice things up a bit and throw Skumlife into the mix. The next Thursday we returned with some Skumlife All-stars; we showed up fashionably late and ran out or beer by the time we got there. Unfortunately, I had a bruised/possibly broken rib (from the previous weekend) which took me out of contention for the foot down competition (Ryan lost by "trying" to do a 180 in the final). At one point, I was in back and noticed a traffic jam at the CircleK just past "Clean" Jim's. Of course Ed had called for a beer pit stop less than a mile into the ride and threw the sheep into a "follow the leader" dilemma that left them in seizure for a minute or so (for future reference, Murfreesboro, keep going! You're not fast! We will catch up). Highlights included Ed talking to the Murfreesboro police with one hand on a beer under his shirt, hearing that people had heard that Skumlife rides around with shotguns, ski-masks, and steals bikes at gun point (it's shotguns with banana clips btw), an impromptu stop at the Dodge Store for the best chicken in the world, and a little bit of loving on the floor during a bad ass performance by the The Prophet Nathan.

All in all, you make your night what you want it to be. If you live in Murfreesboro, definitely book your Thursday nights for this ride, but remember Thursday night isn't the only night to ride bikes. If you live in Nashville, I seriously doubt it's worth taking two hours of driving time and as much gas as I use weekly to do something that we already do everyday (with more excitement) here. I don't want you to take my word for it; I want you to try it out for yourself. If you want to waste a couple of hours and money driving, feel like you are ruining someone's night by having a good time, ride at moderate speed (no faster!), then this one is for you. They meet up every Thursday at 9pm on MTSU campus at the Quad (In front of the Library). As for me, every night in Nashville is Mother Fucking Bike Night!

PS. I love the real Boro riders (you know who you are). Do your thing. Also, thanks to Natalie (our new Murfreesboro corespondent) for the vid. She will be hooking it up on the blog from now on (as far as current events in Murfreesboro are concerned).

Swansea Bookworm Alleycat - Oct 3rd 2009

Swansea Bookworm Alleycat 03.10.09 HD 720p from progressive media on Vimeo.

Google Announces Plan for “Bike There” Option

In a post on the Google Earth and Maps team blog, the ubiquitous company revealed plans to add the long awaited “Bike There” option to their maps.

They say that by integrating this [new] information, and working with specialized data sources like the USDA Forest Service’s Forest Boundaries and the US Geological Survey’s National Hydrography Dataset, we’ve been able to expand and improve features in our maps like parks and water bodies.

Read more at www.Bike-PGH.org.

From Urban Velo

Tennessee Bike Laws

Seriously, learn this shit.

Please Be Careful.

A photograph of seven year old Kylie Bruehler. She is at a funeral service to bury her parents, both of whom were killed last week when a driver veered onto the shoulder and drove his pickup truck into them as they were riding together on a tandem. “Investigators say there are no charges on the driver. They believe this was an accident and that somehow the driver lost control of his truck.” More...

Everyone be safe. Spread bicycle awareness.

Nashville Bike Map

Yesterday's Greenway ride had me checking out the Music City Moves web site, and i came across this map. Granted, most of us don't give a f*ck about a bike lane, but it thought it would still be a good post.

Cinelli USA Catalog 2010

If you haven't seen it yet, here is Cinelli USA's 2010 Catalog.








Via Ben Coffey

Rat Patrol Joust Match....

So this is footage from last weekends Ride....A little jousting under the shelby bride.....lots more coming we are just trying to gather all of it right now.....Enjoy

Thanks to Art for this one

stop motion bike ride- school project

this is a video I made for my 4 demential design class at Watkins. I did it all with a cannon digital camera. There are no tricks being done in this video. just photography while riding bike... which can be tricky in itself.

Just watch it or don't. whatever.

~claytron

rat patrol hootenanny

Here a few pics from a crazy weekend. I regretfully say that I missed the friday night party and the early saturday ride. But the saturday evening activities were still funner than shit. Me being one who has never ridden on or with a tall bike. I'll chalk it up as a learning experience, and what I learned is I want to do it more often.

There were at least 50 people from about 4 different clubs that I know of. There were the hosts the Rat Patrol. Then there was us Skumlife guys, and the marsupial front was there. I'm drawing blanks on the other names, and these are the only ones I've ever had the pleasure of knowing.

Enough being said. I will be posting videos and pics of future events and happenings for your viewing pleasure. I promise, I'll keep it real as I can.

~Claytron