Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for blue sky days, thank you for careful drivers, thank you for all the cycling fun, thank you, and you and especially you. Happy Thanksgiving.
Sat Nov 26th 1:00pm > Bike Polo > @Ditan Park West Gate
Let’s play some Bike Polo as well as do some technical games to improve ball handling techniques. We welcome beginners as well as advanced players. Just dress warm as it is getting cold.
Sat Nov 26th 8:00pm > Niurenku Party x Natooke > @Lantern Club
Niurenku (Kick Ass) is holding a huge street style party on November 26th. See details below.
If you want to ride there together with us, come and meet us at 7:45pm in the shop.
Please mark you calendars:
Tue Nov 29th every x:55 > CCTV13 > “Beijing is my Home”: Beautiful short movie clip about Ines Brunn and how she feels about Beijing and bikes. It will air on Nov 29th every hour of the day at 5min to the hour on CCTV13.
Dec 10 & Dec 11 > Shenzhen > Fixed Gear Event in Shenzhen: The first Madman Race (part of the 4th Shenzhen Bike Carnival) is coming on Dec 10th. If you wish to participate, please provide personal information: name, telephone number, email address, nationality, passport or ID number (for free insurance), and the game you’d like to join (for bike polo, you have to register as a team). Please call 13828484190, or email 11518359@qq.com to register.
Ines & the Natooke Team
Niurenku 2-Year Anniversary Bash
In the past two years, Niurenku, or the “House of Kickass people” has been filming hidden talents and rising stars all over China, covering major events and discovering indie music gigs. With over 400 videos in action sports, independent music, cool technology and urban culture, Niurenku is truly living up to its name of being a ‘house of kickass people.’ Now that they’re turning two, they would like to call out to all their fans out there to come and join in for a night of celebration and jaw-dropping performances from some of their favorite kickass stars. Natooke and fixed gear lovers are one of them and have been invited to the Niurenku 2-year Anniversary bash. We will be organising some bike games that everybody can participate in. So don’t hesitate, come and enjoy the electronic music, fixed gear and parkour party!
Bike Polo
Last weekend we of course played bike polo to get ready for the tournament in Taiwan. It seems that Natooke will at least have 1 men and 1 women bike polo team! But we might even get second teams to come along. Bike Polo!
Fun World Travellers
David Goldman and his wife Amy and 3 daughters are travelling around the world. He is an ex-gymnast and likes unicycling and wants to learn more tricks on bikes. So Ines took him to meet Lao Zhou and Lao Sun, brought her trick bike and showed him some crazy tricks. He wants to get an artistic cycle and learn tricks when he is back home in Detroit. Good luck for the rest of your travel!
Fede and Inline Skaters
Yeah! Fede is back from Italy! Despite the freezing cold winds that swept over Beijing at the beginning of the week Fede and Ines went to meet the Beijing Happy Inline Skaters and show them some bike tricks. It was not so easy to get the bikes inside the Olympic Park but we managed. It was great fun to ride around despite hands and feet freezing.
New Bikes
The past week Natooke had fun building up many colorful and fresh bikes that our customers chose despite this cold weather. Looking at their bikes gives a feeling of spring and summer soon to come, especially the cute green bike. Some combinations are stylish e.g. white and pink with a little bit of gold. Or the marine blue with a little bit of gold. I am amazed how many new color combinations our customers come up with.