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Christina Peck

Chicago

Company: Deadline Express

Hobbies: daily crosswords, kitties, crucial hangouts with a quality beer. maps and better routing. dremel tools and zip ties. lazy Sundays and a full coffee pot, radio banter mingled with office candy. music on headphones, and repeated listenings of This American Life.

Work Bikes: All steel, all the time: 80’s Faggin, Paramount Series 7 PDG, Mexican made Benotto, and the AC Nature Boy, setup with rotating parts—currently of note: 612 Track Cranks, atacs, cane creek headset, red unicanitor saddle, formula to velocity rear, mavic front, ritchey bars, and cane creek brake levers.

Palmares:
1st Place Female 2009, 1st overall, North American Cycle Courier Champs, Boston
1st Place Female 2010, 3rd overall, North American Cycle Courier Champs, Atlanta
1st Place Female 2011 North American Cycle Courier Championships, Austin

2nd Place Female 2010, Cycle Messenger World Championships, Guatemala
3rd Place Female, 29th Overall 2009 Cycle Messenger World Championships, Tokyo

2nd Place, 2009 Illinois State Cat 4 Road Race Championship
1st Place Co-ed Relay Jackson Park Cyclocross 2010
2nd Place Women’s Open Jackson Park Cyclocross 2010
1st Place Illinois Single Speed Cross Championships 2011

1st Place Women’s Stupor, Stupor Bowl 14 2011
1st Place Bicycle Film Festival Alleycat, Chicago 2011
1st Place Polcat, Chicago 2011

Thanks:  Everyone on Chicago Cuttin’ Crew for inspiring me to ride harder, Andy at Deadline - who gives me so much time off to race! SF kids for getting me started, my family for being so supportive all along, Chris Dilts and his photography, all the amazing people I"ve met through this crazy job, and Chicago crew for being so welcoming and awesome, and All-City for hooking up this killer frame.

Space Horse from Blue Lug in Japan

May 22, 2012 | Jeff

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Spotted this gorgeous example of the breed on Facebook last night. It hails from one of the sickest bike shops on the planet, Blug Lug.

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