Category: Fairdale
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Monty Lives!
I drew ol’ Monty on a shirt and water bottle (along with some others). I know it is kind of silly, but when I cartoon Monty memories of him swim through me head. It really does feel like I get to spend some time with him. You can check them out over on Fairdale Bikes.
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A Bit of Non-Cartoon Work
Over the last 10 years or so I’ve been watching the Odyssey team work on the OPTIS. This is not meant to be a promotion for the OPTIS (though it is cool), more a little reflection on watching the product come to fruition. I’ve tested assorted iterations of the design and tracked its progress from…
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A Tuesday at Ray’s
I convinced the Austin Fairdale/ Odyssey crew to head up to Ray’s for some riding. I am happy to bend my influence to get you to go to Ray’s as well. I know it is a strange thing to hop on a plane and go to Cleveland in the winter. Of all the places! But…
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New Shirts for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a couple new T-shirts for Fairdale Bikes. I think this guy is pretty cool. A rabbit in Samurai armor calling down the power of thunder via his carrot sword. Kind of fun to empower the meek little bunny with such a weapon! Check it on Fairdale here. I really like this giraffe in…
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In the Pines
Mountain biking is so much more than vertigo inducing GoPro footage, life threatening speed and laser guided seat posts. I love that my bike carries me away from the noise of the world and out into the peace of the woods. I always feel a bit uncomfortable when I realize I work in marketing (I…
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A New Shirt for Fairdale
“Fine minds find good lines.” I came up with this slogan while working on a Vans project but have kept it for myself and Fairdale. I love finding lines while riding my bike and I think it’s the best feeling there is stringing together a bunch of things in sequence. I thought it fit well…
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New Postcard for Fairdale Bikes
I drew a new postcard for Fairdale Bikes and the Elevator model. This is the MTB I rode this last season and will be riding whenever it gets a little warmer. Super fun, short-back-end, hardtail.
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Taj Talking About Taj
Here’s a little video of myself talking about my Fairdale Bikes signature edition bike, the Taj. Feels dorky talking about a bike with my name but it is a bike I really do love. It’s not focused on hardcore performance, just a fun bike to cruise around on that anyone can ride.
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Few Recent Doodles and Bicycle Film Fest
My animation about Greg Minnaar was added to this year’s Bicycle Film Festival. Thanks for the honor! Drew Santa on the Grim Donut for PinkBike. Also drew a new podcast title image for PinkBike with WAY too much detail. And a little Christmas card for Fairdale Bikes.
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Animation Reel
I threw together a little reel of some animation clips. These are from a handful of my own projects, work for Anthill Films, Vans, Fairdale Bikes, Rooftop, Kinekt, and more.
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A Study of Dutch Top Tubes
I’m enjoying being in a world where everyone gets around by bicycle. Here in the Netherlands there is bikes absolutely everywhere and under every kind of person. Good safe bike roads are all around too. Surprisingly to me I don’t recognize any of the bikes people are on. With 100s of bikes locked up on…
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Unsolicited Review: Garmin Varia
I got to see a little bit of how you other half live with your fancy motorized transportation. I woke with a sore throat, still searing sunburn, some saddle sores and assurances of storms so I decided that this would be the day to skip ahead. I can’t remember ever having ridden an Amtrack before…
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Back to the States
It had been a wonderful day of riding and I was swimming in happy sensations when it came to an abrupt end at the locked door to the USA. I’d ridden across the Peace Bridge from Canada and into Buffalo. It’s a mile long and 170 foot (52m) tall bridge that spans the Niagara River…
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Wondering About White Bread
I sat outside a tiny little grocery store eating bananas and having a soda. I’d been out on empty farm roads and it was the first store I’d seen all day. A bit dazed by all the pedaling I watched the folks coming and going in the same way that I catch myself staring at…
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Day 2 Is Always a Hard One
I felt like I couldn’t do it. I pulled off to the side of road and dismounted my bike. My mind was revolting against this plan. “You can’t make it. This is a terrible idea,” it said to me. I looked back at the narrow two lane road I had just swerved off of and…
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First Day Pedaling
Yesterday I started pedaling. I left in the rain and throughout the day the rain was ever present ranging from light to medium downfalls. In the end I pedaled 94.7miles (152.4 km) over a long 9.5 hours. I started at my Aunt’s house in Fenton, MI and ended up crossing into Canada via a ferry.…
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Vans X Fairdale Animation Project
Along with the Vans X Fairdale bike and shoes collaboration project I animated a short story about Giraffe. I tapped into a handful of my giraffe dad jokes for this one and sneaked Monty into the art too. Giraffe also performs the never-been-done-before kiss of death jump. We had originally planned to shoot this whole…
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Vans x Fairdale (and kind of ” x Taj” too)
I had the wonderful pleasure of working with both Vans and Fairdale Bikes on a colab package. We started with one of my signature bikes, the Taj 27.5″ cruiser, and covered it in some special decals I drew. My character Giraffe is the star of the Vans x Fairdale bike. He also appears on two Vans shoes they let…
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