RACE REPORT May 8, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Steve posted up a full race report from Sunday’s event. Check in with him for a full update!
CHECKPOINT! May 8, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment John Reiss worked a checkpoint and posted some images for the event. Check in with him!
SUNDAY! May 2, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Sunday May 5th Registration opens at Noon: MASH 773 14th Street SF CA 94114 Race starts at 1PM All checkpoints will be within San Francisco Racers will be awarded in Golden Gate Park between 3pm and 5pm Chain of Lakes Meadow Top 3 will be awarded in 2 categories: 1- Brakeless track bikes 2- All other bikes Race support provided by: Oakley, Incase, MARTIN, MASH, Bicycle Coffee 18yrs+ Wear a helmet!
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!!! Apr 27, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Working on an adventure race for next weekend! Will start at the shop, and end at Kirby Cove next Sunday. Will award geared and fixed bikes. GET READY!
Apr 14, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Marc, Evan, and the Walt Here are some images I shot during our trip to NY for the Red Hook Crit, The trip was short and sweet, the race was brutally fast, and the weather was amazing. All photos shot with my Olympus Stylus on Fugi Superia 400. Walt and Evan warming up for the big race. Portland reunited!! Walt, Zak, Kyle. The Walt’s game face. Kyle Crihs Mike, Evan, Kyle and Marc. Alfred and his new bike. Chris Lee and Shawn Wolf _chas
MASHSF.COM Apr 12, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Just before heading to New York, we updated our site. It has been really great to hear from many of you, as you discover new aspects of the digital space. Enclosed are some new features. look for more updates as we continue to catalog different types of media to offer HERE. The site is fully scaleable, working great on all devices. We changed the News section to WordPress from Tumblr. This new format offers larger images, ways to share the stories, and better search features as we grow this section. We will continue to post to our Tumblr with inspiration. We have grown out the media we offer featuring our teams both on the street, and in the dirt. Each rider has a page, with photos, video, and links to their own social media. We are also working to add downloadable playlists created by each rider. Continue to check for updates. Dylan is the first to have his posted. We have pages for CX and Street, where we will have current season race calendars. Send us your upcoming street races for 2013, and we can add them to this feature. Our social media section offers links to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vimeo. This page also includes an archive of images that are tagged #mashsf on instagram. Show us your adventures! We offer a page of wallpaper images. These are scaled for phones, tablets, and desktop computers. The rides page is focused around the Tuesday AM rides we host through the shop. We are continuing to add links to a shop Strava account that offers data for local rides. You can download them, and explore. We also started a tag #MASHTUESDAY where you can link up images from the local rides, as well as your adventures worldwide. We continue to archive photo essays on our Photo Sets page. This is a nice way to look back, and see these moments over the past 8 years. We have scanned recent press clips from a range of magazines, and have build a larger slideshow for this information. Our online shop features some the pieces we produce, and carry here at our location in San Francisco. As a small shop, this is a way great way to share what we are into, with you guys! We updated the page that showcases our efforts with Cinelli. Check here for updates as we continue to grow with our friends from Milano! Our friend Neil built this site. Send him some quality projects!
Red Hook Brooklyn VI Criterium Apr 9, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames 0 Comment Rainier posted his Red Hook race report up. Keep up with him HERE. My Vigorelli was mostly the same as the last couple Red Hooks. 51-15 gear ratio and my track sewups were new. The drive side crank was NJS certified and the saddle BG certified, as usual. The qualifiers were interesting, fun, confusing, necessary, helpful, and dangerous. I followed the pack around for a while to get warmed up, dudes in the group were throwing down for their fastest times around the course. Each racer’s fastest lap time would be compared to everyone else’s and the one hundred fastest would compete in the main race. At least that’s how I think it worked. So there were little packs of racers spread all around the course having a go at their fastest lap. After warming up on the heels of others, MASH SF—Chas, Kyle, and I—gave Walton a TTT in our Giro Air Attacks to boost his already impressive second-fastest qualifying time to the fastest-qualifying time. He came through by a tenth of a second. $200. Several hours, a couple bagels, and an avocado sandwich later I was lining up for the main race. Walton and Kyle were in the front row, Chas and I were in the second. Basically we were all in good spots, lined up according to our fastest qualifying lap time. The instant the whistle blew, shit hit the fan. A racer in the front row didn’t clip into his pedals and freaked out, flipping over his handlebars and taking out at least one other racer. So much for that first-lap prime dude. After the handlebar flip freakout I was maybe twenty five people back? Racers were going into the hairpin really fast, then slowing way down, overlapping wheels in the process. After one such overlap, Walton had to duck (twenty seconds in) through cones to avoid a collision. It was scary out there. After taking my sweet time getting to the front of the group, the race was nearly over. With five laps to go, Walton and I were in the top five. We stayed out of the wind and waited for the finish. In the last lap a ChampSys racer took a half-lap pull/attack/something, after which everyone slowed down. We were going to get swarmed if someone didn’t hit it. In Red Hook Milan, Eduard Grosu did not follow his line and crashed into me, putting me twice against the curb in the hairpin, taking me out of the sprint for the finish. With this in mind, and knowing Walton is also in this group, I lead the group out from the chicane. A few hundred meters later I was setting up to approach the hairpin and no one was in front of me. The instant before the hairpin five dudes went FLYING around me! Those dudes hit the corner really hard, Walton fishtailing to stay with Neil Brezdek. He managed a podium finish and I finished sixth. Rainier: Photos: W9 Magazine
NEW CREW Mar 17, 2013 Categories: MASH Frames, News We just restocked some goods at the shop including crew neck sweatshirts in Gray and black. Stay warm!