Two of our homies stopped by the shop to day to chop it up for a bit the first,
Ralph daddy, from the LBC stopped by the shop with his DOG, SMALKAK.. He was telling us about his adventures at the barbershop. Ralph and his dog both got a FRESH HAIRCUT.
Ralphs DOG, SMALKAK.
Jake also stopped by, we talked about bikes, babes, and business. Hes originally from Northern California one of core regions for track biking.
Hes BASHFUL,
WORD TO YANNI,
PEEP HIS VIDEO.
HANGOUT Tuesdays.
RIFS VERY OWN UNFUCKWITABLE -
maneger, JEFF aka EVERYONESENEMY was mentioned by DJ Gregstreet on TSG to be one of the illest sneaker collector out there along with DJ AM, Clark Kent, FAT JOE and our favorite seller/buyer CROATIANSTYLE aka sizzle (ed). It was a comment made by DJ Gregstreet from FATJOES CHALLENGE click HERE for the link.
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dj greg street on September 17th, 2008 at 10:02 pm
clark has the word of the week, unfuckwitable. groc, clark, joe, macho, t, will, louie kicks, am, dre(croation), dec dan, farfhad, ryan, pat, d, sean, fred (undftd), fc (kin & demany bring chris back to work), kim d, sneaker queen, dee wells, carletta, lyle, lauen (wish), jeff (rif), theshoegame family, etc. we’re all family. the comp is friendly, the love for the kicks is real! imma post up something for the family soon, im sooooooooooo unfuckwitable right now! and please excuse my haters, i got so much work for’em right now.
ADAM
Here's a picture of one of our fav. customer DJ AM looking healthy out in public after staying at the Georgia Hospital for a week. You can clearly see the burn injuries on his neck, a brave DJ AM left his LA home this morning to attend a memorial service for Travis Barker's assistant, Chris Baker.
Never not learning.
On our days off, the staff here at RIF like to enjoy a little quiet time, some of us like to enjoy the the peace and calm of our homes, some take pleaseure in the open-air of public parks and beaches and at times we like to go to the PUBLIC LIBRARY. The cool air and variety of invigorating headlines of todays current affairs mixed with quintessential writings of Jules Verne, Voltaire, and even Mark Twain make the PUBLIC Library an unerring place for quiet, personal reflection time.
A few of us decided that today would be a perfect day of personal rumination so we spent a few hours at the PUBLIC LIBRARY.
never not working.
After spending a few minutes on the RIF BLOG and CNN.COM We decided to take a stroll around and see the wide variety of publications the library had to offer.
So we head to the magazine section and spot 2 of the most influential magazines that were published this month.
We dont read at RIF, so after looking at the pictures and ripping out what we needed, we proceeded to peruse the different aisles seeing where our government tax dollars are being spent on.
This is what helped us pass ENGLISH LITERATURE in HIGHSCHOOL, THANKS CLIFF.
After browsing at all the different asles, we felt like we were getting closer to what we were really at the library for, We never knew there was a HUGE selection of books and movies on VHS tape.
ATLAST, we found what we were looking for. Fuck Blockbuster and NETFLIX, who needs them when you have the PUBLIC LIBRARY.
We stay in the DVD section for a few minutes ...find what we are looking for..then start walking back to our little table with kindergarten chairs.. as we're walking through the aisles...
...(of course MAD Dogging any kids or parents giving us bad looks)... we hear this man that looks like a women... at this point we're stealth 007 style army crawling through the aisle with our DVD's in hand hoping that the MAN FRED or any library staff wouldnt see us...MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...we managed to get a few pics before army crawling back to our table.
We get to our table safe and sound with the GOODS...
After reading a few more magazines we saw one that caught our eye...
seems as if DJ AM and Travis Barker are making a fast recovery...what were you thinkin? NO HOMO
After a few more minutes in the LIBRARY, we decided to bounce..seems as if Ol' BOY had the right idea.
RANDOM SHOTS
East 2nd Street
Talking business with Andre, stay tune!
o yeah, and this is for the ladies, Ralph saids HI
Few of our favorite things.
Great advancements in the fashion world developed this week. A staff favorite WTAPS is collaborating with another JAPANESE street wear giant BOUNTY HUNTER. The jacket which is slated to release SOON. Has strategic branding throughout WTAPS already famous BDU Jacket.
This jacket is ready for URBAN COMBAT.
With your jacket covered, you just need a fresh pair of kicks. Jun Takahashi(Undercover) and Silly Thing collaborated to create a new wider toe Converse Jack Purcell.
Perfect for STOOMPING on sissies.
pics courtesy of honyeeblog.com
0:37 l THANKS ZACH!
..VIMBY - Puma PB2R..
Results are in, Zach and his boy finished 5th place, thats fucken fantastic considering there were more than 40 racers. Peep .37
THANKS BRO. Stayed tuned for his next race.
A day in the LIFE.
Today was a fairly busy day with consignment, shipments, customers but we always manage to give you a small taste of the day in the life of RIF.
So we saw this dude with a little swagg in his step walking our way. With closer inspection, ol' boy dropped a little knowledge our way telling us, " your shop is sleepin with these joints.."
No wonder why he had a little "hop" in his step, if he tried he could have dunked on anyone of us with his Sandle -SHOX joints.
Keep that swagger step, my man.
Right when Ol'boy left our man I. Breezy came through. We chatted it up for a bit about kicks, cars and racing( fast and the furiously curious) style. He was telling us that his boy was gonna swing buy before hitting up Irwindale Speedway for a little thursday night race session.
At that time, we hear this rocket ship speeding down 2nd street. We thought this "rocket ship" was gonna fucken mow down.. all the people crossing 2nd street were scarred holding their children, luckily the speed contraption managed to slow down.
We managed to take a few shots of the rocket ship, before they headed down to the Irwindale speedway.
As I. Breezy and his boy SPED off, the mailman swung buy, Ed has been waiting for a package for nearly 2 damm months. At last his new shades arrived.
hundredaires.
Ed was as excited as a young hypebeast, getting his first pair of GR SB' Dunks
Overall it was a swell day, hustled a gang of kicks, homies swung by, Ed got his new shades.
Time to ride into the Sunset, Ed's gonna jump on the handle bars and we're off.
Stay tuned.
-JAPAN OCT. 21
RANDOM SHOTS FOR TODAY
What did Jeff eat today?
brian c from art center
napsize, best sneaker store in the WORLD, hands down!
stay tuned.
ROHAN MARLEY l SON OF BOB MARLEY
Rohan Marley, son of Bob Marley, and Father of Lauren Hills 5 kids!, came by RIF to chat it up a little bit. Real chill dude with a lot of energy!
Taken outside of RIF :)
This dude is comedy!
GIVING BACK TO LA
Since all the staff @ RIF always drink energy drinks, soda, water, etc, we thought it would be good to save all the empty cans and bottles we have and one day give it to one of LA's luckiest homeless person. TODAY was the day and we even laced him up with a pair of jordans.
Ofcourse we had to be picky in choosing which homeless person to give it to, cant be a drug feen cat who looks like they'll come to the store everyday expecting free cans.
best loco moco i ever had personally, ALOHA on 2nd st in the Honda Plaza.
keep it two-tone 
chips of the month, some korean chips, bombeezy
DJ AM l TRAVIS BARKER l PLANE CRASH
DJ Am and Travis Barker were in a recent plane crash where 4 people in their private plane died. They are currently in the hospital in critical condition, ours prayers go out to them and their families.
Fuck That.
After the incident across the street(parking day massacre) and the spectacle that caused, ARCHRIVAL across the street decided to take matters into their own hands.
Soon after the Boys an Blue were out of site, Steve and Jason of Archrival decided to have their own PARKING INSTALLATION in front of their store.
They took the idea of an URBAN park to the EXTREME and had real GRASS/SOD placed in the parking cubicle in front of their store space.
Peep the real foliage and grass
The Grass was placed not only on the parking space but there was a GRASS pathway leading to the entrance of the shop.
Steve standing infront of his URBAN PARADISE
It definitely was a site to see among LA's drab grey and black tones. But what is Paradise without homie Ralph amongst the oasis of palm trees and fresh grass.
We'll leave the top-less tanning pics for next time.
Parking Day DownTown LA.
Parking day is a one day Globel event started in San Franciso where metered parking spots are transformed into temporary parks. Fortunately one of these parks pop-ed up infront of our shop.
As you can see from the pictures it was a peaceful event, with locals enjoying metered space, paying quarters hourly of-course.
It was a peaceful installation, until the Boys in Blue crashed the PARTY.
After the one man ARMY arrived all havoc broke LOOSE. Hippies yelling at COPS, COPS yelling at Hippies, Jeff Yelling at Ed, Security Guards yelling at each other, bums yelling at themselves...
The ruckus ensued for about 15 minutes, with everyone watching hoping that the POLICE was gonna strike one of the hippies in the face, unfortunately that never happened, it was still a spectacle. Jake and Q , don't even know whats going on.
even "Bicycle BOB" was in the mix. 
Budweiser workers enjoying the show. Hook us up with a KEG Broseph!
Moral of the story, try not to have peaceful events in LA or the Police will have a temper tantrum and break it up.
YAO MINGS BROTHER PART 2
Yao Mings little brother came by again, he said "My shoes are still here!?'", i said "yea man, if it doesnt sell in two weeks, i get to donate it to SKIDROW"
He said "YOU BETTER NOT!"
He said his brother has been stressing since his injury.
yea looks like hes really stressing.
at the races.
After work we went across the street at ARCHRIVAL to enjoy a few after hours cocktails at ARCHRIVAL. While there we discussed our plans for our 2 year anniversary.
While chillin we noticed a MASSIVE amount of bike riders cutting through little Tokyo plaza and on second street. After closer inspection we noticed it was our boy Giro from DRIF bike shop.
He was one of the check point for the PUMA RACE that took place last night.
The head of the pack were a group of Roadies sprinting down 2nd street.
Im sure no coolguy fixies won the race but it cool non the less. Even the "bean cake lady" was watching.
HOURS BEFORE THE RACE
Jake swung by the store right before the Puma Race, The race consists of teams made of 2 riders. Its a relay race where each rider rides for 9 miles stopping at various check points in Los Angeles. To sum it up, its HARD CORE, and Ed and Jb's lungs cant handle it... Good Luck Zach.
out of hand.
We here at RIF respect individuality and creativity, but when fashion gets carried away its, "out of hand".
Nike, sometimes your "out of hand" 
At least we know one person that will copp.
pics courtesy of Niketalk, Mental therapy, and Nikeskateboarding.org
TERRY RICHARDSON IS A "OBAMA-MAMA"
Terry Richardson is not a Mccaniac! This should be on a shirt!
thanks hypebeast for the picture.
ALWAYS NEED CLEAN SHIRTS
Found this picture of DJ MIKE (E) spinning @ Wasabis on Thursday. If you ever need a DJ, please let me know and I will hit this dude up! His mixtape is coming out soon!
Thanks for always supporting us!!!
Also this is for our haters. We love you! Thank you to the good peoples behind FONEY who always provide me with clean shirts, shirts that I would actually wear! Watch out for FONEY in the coming months, if you don't know, then your store must be doing something wrong! Clean > GOOBER
"Yoo what the fuck does Jeffs shirt say?"
ASK ABOUT IT!
HOT SHIT not so HOT SHIT.
HOT SHIT.
Vans x Taka Hayashi Pack 2 | No Skool 2 Mid / Ownes Hi Vulc, Stay on your toes, they drop sooner than you think.
NOT so HOT SHIT.
pic courtesy of slamxhype
Like you care...Sundays
what we wore today.
Mink Fresh. DQM 360 AM 95 with the matching hair.
Ed, Vis no matching hair.
ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER
I was browsing on theshoegame.com to check out part 60 of the "guess who" and it was dj gregstreet rockin some stash am 95s that he bought from RIF LA for a bomb price as usual!
dj gregstreet always supporting good people!
RIPSET BMX PRESENTS...
TRIPPIN AT THE TRACK!
For all my bmx cats, make sure to come out! Click HERE for more info.
NEMA... in the PENN sharing showers.
Nema just got outta a jail and you know his first stop had to be RIF. What did he copp? De La Sol Highs and Unkles. 
Stay outta trouble kids or you might bunk up with a dude like this.
Japan to LA and everything in between.
We received a box of goodies from NAPSIZE today. Don't SLEEP.
HALF of what we dug out of the box.
Stephen from GLENDALE BARRIO stopped by. He copped a pair of Baltimore AF1 to match his TOMMY HILFIGER button down.
RIF X Jakes Bike Shop.
Working in Downtown there is a sense of unity and commeradery with those who ride bicycles. RIF staff is no exception, all the staff have this simplistic form of transportation whether using it as mode of transportation or fun we all RIDE.
Like getting a tune up on your car, our bikes also need to be nurtured and taken care of. So what do we do when we have a problem? We call up homie Jake.
If you need any work done on your bike, Jakes your man hit up the shop for info.
JB messed up his lockring on his COG so Jake was more than happy to cruise by the shop and check it out.
Jakes diagnosis, "fucked up chainring man... you could die...but, whatever you could ride it a little longer."
NICK.
Nick swung by the shop this afternoon to our surprise. Ed has known Nick for years and was Ed's original FOOTLOCKER connect years ago. Since then, Nick has moved on to bigger and better ventures. Living in Downtown for years his artistic maturity has grown from black book sketches and bombings to legit renditions of Nick's LA conceptualized vision. KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR NICK, you wont be disappointed.
Nicks Japanese inspired hand tat, We heard hand tats tickle.
The man himself, stayed tuned for more information on his upcoming exhibits. RIF will sure be there.
DAVES QUALITY MEATS (DQM) X Nike Dunk Hi
Seems as if Dave of Daves Quallity Meats in the BIG APPLE is at it again. First an AM90, then Blazer now Nike Dunk. If the past depicts the future, then these shoes are SURE to be sold out. So be sure to stay on your toes during the release day or your best bet is RIF.LA
The entire shoe is composed of silky smooth perforated suede, with the DQM insignia embossed on the tongue tag. Its like multi-color butter, soo smooth.
pics from la mjc
We're guessing that Dave will be wearing the purple version to match his bike, but who knows.
feed your inner hypebeast installment #1
Little Tokyo Los Angeles is not only home to RIF, but some of the best Japanese food in LA. Non of that roll Japanese/Korean hybrid sushi like Kabuki, but true Japanese cuisine. The closest you'll get to homeland Japanese cooking. On our 2 year stint here in little tokyo, we have experienced some of the best sushi, yakitori, and ramen in all of California.
On our first installment of Little Tokyo Food, we want to share with you a special ramen spot that staff and those who enjoy traditional ramen indulge in their ramen cravings.
Daikokuya Ramen is situated on 1st street, and just a minute walk away from RIF. So after stopping by RIF and you don't mind waiting in line for 30 minutes dont miss out on some traditional savory pork fat based ramen.
If its too hot out, have no fear, They also have a savory cold ramen (Jeff's personal favorite). Just hope that its not a busy day, the cold ramen is more limited then a pair of sz.13 Red Supreme Highs. When the cold ramen is gone, its gone, and if you ask for some you'll be mad dogged more then walking into Supreme with an ENYCE shirt on.
without further adieu, Daikokuya Cold Ramen.
BIG Jake from the 213
Jake stopped by the shop today to chop it up about kicks and bikes. Apparently keiren racing is also a past time in KOREA. Though not as recognized as Japan, Korean manufactured bikes take note of Japanese manufacturing methods and techniques. Jakes Cello frame was hand built by an apprentice that once worked for the now defunct San Rensho Factory.
peep the lug work if you can.
GUESS WHO PART 1
Guess who came by the store today rockin the "pigeon" staple new balance? Take a guess!
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Its cool, not sure who he is either! We just know hes from the BIG F13
CHUCK NORRIS FOR PRESIDENT
CHUCK NORRIS FACTS:
1. If you have five dollars and Chuck Norris has five dollars, Chuck Norris has more money than you.
2.There is no 'ctrl' button on Chuck Norris's computer. Chuck Norris is always in control.
3.Apple pays Chuck Norris 99 cents every time he listens to a song.
4.Chuck Norris can sneeze with his eyes open.
5.Chuck Norris can eat just one Lay's potato chip.
6.Chuck Norris is suing Myspace for taking the name of what he calls everything around you.
7.Chuck Norris destroyed the periodic table, because he only recognizes the element of surprise.
8.Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
WDYWT X WDYET
What did JB eat today? 
What did JB wear today? that raekwon tee will be mine soon btw.
always taking care of the parking dude JOSE
No parking on our side of the street from 4pm-6pm. I literally see 5 cars get towed away everyday. 
"good people support good people, we don't support ya'll"
Summer, Its time to hit the dusty road...
With summer winding down and socal nights starting to cool. Its time to upgrade from T's and shorts to jackets and jeans. The staff at RIF all have similar tastes and thanks to a good friend of ours we have been fortunate enough to be laced with new coats for the winter season.
We are all unsure about the exact models that will be receiving but paying a fraction of the retail price never hurts.
Here are some pictures of past seasons goodies, Sorry if the Jackets are not COLORFUL enough or don't have LOGOS plastered on every possible area, I guess we're not too fond of that.
GT-J11L Hardshell
3L GORE-TEX® PRO SHELL JACKET
Kung-Fu masters. Grammy winners. Paradigm shifters. GT-J11 is an icon worn by icons (Thank you -you know who you are). Regardless of how often copied, or by whom, an ACRONYM® GT-J11 will always be what the others never are. The original.
GT-J4l
3L GORE-TEX® PRO SHELL JACKET
Originally introduced in FW-0304, this new version is built in Gore-Tex® Proshell instead of Paclite. More durable and more compatible with post-sewing construction techniques, dual Gravity Pocketsæ and a Jacketslingæ are now part of the feature set. Collar architecture unifies Forcelockæ , stowable fullly-featured storm hood, Escape Zipæ , removable logo tape, and snagless laminated center front zipper flap.
ACRONYM Jackets are for the modern day NINJA. Please use with caution.
ZACH ATTACK.
Zach from Orchid Customs(http://orchidcustoms.blogspot.com) and Keep(www.keepcompany.com), swung buy the shop today. When hes not at school, working, or mashing about the westside and DTLA hes at RIF chopping it up about kicks, and bikes. Don't be fooled Zach's been riding for years and not only can keep up with the best of them, but he'll also smash your sneaker game. So if you see this guy mashing around town don't forget to honk your horn and tell him to get a brake for his bike! 
BUY HIS LUCKIES AND UNLUCKIES both are a bargain deal, STEAL.
ANOTHER SATISFIED CUSTOMER
Can't go wrong for $45.00
thanks DARWYN and JOSH! Josh is a Kobe Bryant fan, and darwyn is a fan of your mom!
SUMMER IS OVER
My pick up of the year! Finally a new leather chair that reclines. I'll be sitting in this chair from 12-7 Sun-Thursday and 12-8 Fri-Sat.
What did Ed wear today?
While you guys are lining up @ Supreme for the release of the "JFK" tee, Ed will be laughing while wearing his "Clockwork Orange" Supreme tee that released back in 2003. Also he rocked his infamous "NY" Supreme hat, i told him this is LA homie!
RIF loves free publicity! Thank you MetroMIX
WE ARE OPEN ON LABOR DAY!
We are one of the few stores open on this day that your suppose to relax and barbeque, owell! Visit us at the store if you dont feel like relaxing, o yeah and bring Barbeque!
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