A brief reminder
The second issue of fantastic bike rag Urban Velo was released today, and I’m proud to have one of my shots featuring in their first gallery section. If you haven’t seen Urban Velo, it’s put together by a couple of guys who used to work at Dirt Rag magazine, before leaving to do their own thing. It’s early days, but already they’re putting out a really nice product, it’s interesting, well written and has some nice photos to boot. Well worth checking out.
The shot Jeff chose brought back a flood of memories for me; taken earlier this year in Edmonton, AB, while I was still living there, it depicts Paul Bellows‘ cruiser bike, at night, covered in snow, in what was around -20C temperatures, if I remember rightly (and I hope I do, ‘cos that’s what’s in the caption). Paul is awesome, one of the most genuinely likeable people I’ve ever had the pleasure to meet, and a hardcore rider - I skipped the bike that day and took the bus.
I remember the cold, it seams like it was yesterday…. Berr.
Is Paul Bellows from Yellow Pencil? if so i meet him at the McDonald Hotel along with some of there other guys. Defiantly seamed like a nice guy. Although there is no mention of how cool i am, and i found you first. Just putting that out there mister.
remember our long walks in the -25 (even colder) at night down Whyte Ave. remember all the cultural questions i would ask about the UK.
ahh the memories.
June 29th, 2007 at 9:46 amYup, Paul is co-owner of Yellow Pencil.
The cold is something that still fascinates me to this day, to the point where I’m actually hoping to get back to Edmonton sometime in the winter just to remember what it was like. My sheltered UK upbringing hadn’t prepared me for the feeling of -40C, and I remember feeling like an Arctic explorer on my first trudge to work through feet-deep snow.
June 30th, 2007 at 3:29 amWhat Dan fails to mention is that I wasn’t even wearing pants that day.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:26 amGorgeous photo, Dan. It’s also nice that you miss us.
July 4th, 2007 at 11:33 am