donderdag 14 oktober 2010

Kick scooter #1




Yellow solid rubber tires on black plastic rims pretty much define the paint scheme for our new project: a kick scooter. These wheels are size 12 1/2 and were looking really mint compared to the rest of the kick scooter. The scooter frame has now been completely stripped and repaired and just got a fresh coat of black paint with yellow striping. In a few hours I can start assembling the thing and it should look just as rad as these little kick scooters right here:


Berlin, 1955
(picture taken from Deutsches Bundesarchiv)



maandag 11 oktober 2010

We RE-Cycle things

Welcome to H-Town a.k.a. Hasselt, capital of Limburg, Belgium.
Everything on this blog is somehow connected to H-Town, because that’s where it all happens.
One of the best things in H-Town is Kapermolen park, a great outdoor concrete skatepark with a pool and a street course, one of the biggest in Europe!
A lot of the locals skate or ride bmx and off course there are some occasionall inliners.
The bmx-scene over here has exploded in recent years, with a lot of kids getting good fast at freestyle bmx. Flatland is virtually dead, but we don’t mind that :p

This is a video from last year featuring some local riders. All of them have improved in style, most of them even in bmx!


There is however potential for some more crazy shit on wheels. Most riders have their bmx as a secondary ride. If they would change their ordinary daily drivers for trick bikes or tricked out bikes, even riding to school can become a lot of fun!
That’s where RE-Cycle comes in. We recycle things, like bikes and stuff. We build simple but unique bikes, always looking good and riding smooth.





At the moment, work is going great on a number of projects. On this bike the framework is complete now and ready for a paintjob.


RE-Cycle, your one-stop bicycle shop for parts and completes…
since three weeks ago.