last day in philly, off to boston

on my last day in philly, i decided to go down to south street. its pretty busy there and there are a bunch of cheesy shops along with some good ones like the wooden shoe collective book store and Via Bicycle a bike shop that has tons of vintage bikes and parts crammed into a small building. these are the shops i wanted to go to.
on south street there are a couple really cool community gardens along with the magic garden, an old empty lot that has been turned into a museum of mosaics.


Isaiah Zagar's mosiacs adorn buildings all over philadelphia. philly also has a lot of really interesting murals, i like this one of the dogs and cats, but there are ones that i have no idea what they are suppose to be about. i then met up with my friend lauren, her room mate Meg made us a treasure map to devils pool along the Wissahickon River. there is a great bike trail that goes along the river and connects to the trail on the Schuylkill.these trails are great connectors as well as for recreation. devils pool is pretty much a small deep pool in a stream off the Wissahickon between a couple 15-20ft high boulders that are perfect to jump off of. the pool isnt too deep but that didnt stop the kids from doing front flips and dives into it. i jumped feet first from the highest point from fear of hitting my head on the bottom. good idea since my feet hit the bottom. there is also bridge about 50 feet above the pool. the kids claim that they jump off it into the water, but i doubt you could do it without dying.


















it took a while to get back and we stopped to see this great view of the skyline

my week in philadelphia

i decided to take a vacation before i go on the poster job(hopefully for the last time and hopefully ill pay off my student loans)
i spent a week in new york and im now in philadelphia. visiting old friends, helping with there house projects and seeing whats new with the city.

sunday brunch around the corner at a house around the corner from Ben's place.
the money raised will go to start an Urban CSA





















bike path along the schuylkill river. cycling has increased by over 300% in philly since the city has started to invest in bike facilities










neighborhood bike works is a community bicycle shop on penn campus, they do a youth earn a bike program along with open community shop hours.

Ryan's blinged out fillet brazed track frame.

just got Ryans bike back from the powder coater. its sparkly black. it was hard to get good pictures of it during the day, i really need to get someone to come take good photos, but this is the best i could do outside my shop.

michael's touring frame

just got this one finished before i left for the northeast. its a 650b touring frame Michael will be getting it painted at Villin Cycles in Gainesville Florida

its built with columbus spirit tubing for lugs. the fork crown is Pacenti cycles new Paris-Brest model. im digging it quite a bit. yet again this is another frame with curved seat stays, ever since i built the first bike with them, everyone has wanted their frame with curved stays. its not too hard for me to bend them, takes just a few more minutes. this one i made the top a scallop design then brazed them to the binder, i think i like this look best.

awesome photo in the shop

kyle took this photo while we were building Ryan's track frame. just got the thing painted yesterday, should have some photos up tonight.