We’re not sure if there is any concrete connection between bike and skate culture.
Both share the fixation on rolling through the landscape, but, of course, with vastly different emphasis.
But in California – that melting plot of all things faddish and nex gen – there is now and then something unlikely peeps through the cultural meniscus – something that fuses what was always so seperate.
This pleasant little video records a snippet of a day in the life of a skateboarder and Harley rider.
An interesting little muse on the beauty of metalflaked hogs and skating through that distinctive Californian light.
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