Over a short but much needed out of towner, I ran into an old friend. After a brief catching up over a drink, we started talking business. It turns out he and his wife are in the process of opening a bike shop. Not just a bike shop, a real, brick and mortar, BMX shop for the real heads(he's a long time BMX staple in the industry, even through the down years). For those that know, a true BMX shop is pretty hard to come by. Most are watered down, buy your complete bike here type shops catering to families or at least selling a wide spectrum of bikes. From his description of there plans it will be much like a skate shop in that you can buy everything by the piece giving you the freedom to do what you want. I grew up skateboarding and I always figured that bike shops were much like skate shops, that i until a few years ago when I started riding. No, I'm not a BMX convert, I ride a road bike, particularly a rode bike I built from scratch and have since built s few more, it's sort of addictive. When I started, I had no idea about what a pain it would be(I refer you back to the previous statements). So when he told me about their plans, I knew I had to get on board. I don't live in the area anymore so I can't physically lend a hand, so I offered the next best thing that I could think of, art. So I asked if he'd let me do the identity work and maybe so other art for shop promotions. He was pretty stoked at the offer and here we are. (above is the logo and below is the art for the first t-shirt)
Best of luck you guys and please, let me know if I can help out in any other way.
