BRIGANTE PROJECT

It looks like a mix beetween indian and greek myths, an italian garden created in mid XVI century and forgotten till the 50s

pic by Aline pic by Aline

 I've been riding my bicycle through wide and windy fields in a beautiful desert day of october. I followed the départementale 49 from Paris to Orléans for 150km. Orléans by night

I made a pair of slide gloves for longboarding. What i used is work gloves, velcro, neoprene glue and nylon pucks - 95x75x30 mm -. Actually I'm not sure if I bought nylon (AB) or policarbonate (PC) ... I don't even know the difference! I read on the net that any "plastic" gives you different performances. I tested plexiglass and it's very slidy and hard, it doesn't warm even on thick pucks. The new pucks are softer. I smoothed the bottomside edges and scratched the upside face to glue it better to the velcro. The glue seemed to work good on the glove, quite well on the pluck. Since it's gummy it should hold for long time. Velcro works great; maybe the pucks are too fat, but i don't have problems to grab the board during the slides

My brother came to stay by me for holidays

With the friends in Menilmontant Here's where i've been working till the end of the mounth.

Sometimes you may need a rest from the city concrete.

On 1st of may I had a trip from Paris to the Versailles' gardens. We have two very old french bicycles bought for cheap prize and fixed as best as we could. It's been the really first test of our rides and our legs!   There was a killer unexpected hill on tha way, hard (to us) on the way up and hard (for the 70's brakes) downhill, but it worthed. pretending to be pros...

La maiala skate crew