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From Saturday April 17th for one month only.

The howies shop on Queens Road, Bristol will be holding an exhibition of rare, original vintage skateboards through the ages, from the private collection of Shiner Distribution.

Also, we asked a bunch of our favourite artists to create some one-off hand decorated boards that could be auctioned off to raise funds for Unicef.

We gave each of them an original 1980s blank deck from Shiners’ private collection and let them
do their thing.

The results are a showcase of their unique take on what the skateboard and skateboarding means to them.

Nobody got paid for the work they did. They all gave up their time, sweat, paint and ink voluntarily for the cause, so hats off to them for that.

You can bid for the boards on eBay when the auction begins on 16th April 2010 at 6pm.

All proceeds go to Unicef.

Just spotted this in my inbox:

Dear howies, here’s my Epic Drovers in sunny Newcastle.

All the best,

Simon

A Beautiful Machine event had been going really well. All the artwork exhibited at our Bristol Shop is for auction. The proceeds will go to Save the Children – Haiti appeal. Have a browse below and if you like anything call the Bristol shop on 0117 929 8928 and place your bid or email them at bristolshop@howies.co.uk

We’ll update the prices regularly. You can read more about the event here, the last night of talks is on Friday.

1. A beautiful machine – Whiteduck 56x56cm current price - £5

2. Red Bike – 33.8x73cm current price – £50

3. Chopper – 41x31cm current price – £40

4. Gold bike – 44x31cm current price – £77

5. Two cartoon characters – 44x31cm current price – £11

7. Ride your BM – 53x25cm current price – £50

8. Skelly rider – 43x33cm current price – £25

9. Mr Fixie – 50x50cm Current Bid – £18

10. Bike colours – 32x41cm current price – £25

11. Past / Future – 31x22cm – current price £18

12. Bike & Map – 27x32cm current price – £51.22

13. Enjoy the Ride – 19x19cm current price – £30

14. ABM wings – 42x52cm current price – £50

15. Heart – 35x35cm current price – £35

17. Fixie photo – 33x24cm

18. Wheel – 31x43cm current price – £20

20. Wheel on Orange – 43x53cm current price – £30

21. T-Shirt – Small current price – £35

22. Bikeasso – 31x41cm- £31

23. Bikeasso Two – 31x41cm- £30

24. Bikeasso Three – 31x41cm- £20

25. Urban Beach Cruiser – 45x33cm current price – £18

26. Bike with wooden box – 24x33cm current price – £75

27. Polo pink – 15x20cm current price – £30

28. Oil – 25x31cm current price – £60

29. Bicyclops – 36x51cm current price – £52

30. Untitled – 44x44cm Current Bid – £5

31. Ride it like you won it – 22x31cm current price – £75

32. Reach for the bars – 44x44cm current price – £75

33. untitled – 22x31cm current price – £75

34. Babycrow x Tokyo fixed 50x70cm current price – £65

35. Steel Beauty – 51x41cm- £10

36. One weeks spinning – 70x50cm

37. untitled – 52x42cm current price – £30

38. We are godmade – 52x42cm current price – £2

39. The evolution of – 31x41cm current price – £20

40. My first 5 speed racer – 34x24cm- £12

41. Hold – 53x43cm current price – £10

42. Face – 20x25cm current price – £12

43. Untitled – 45x62cm current price – £68

44. Gear Shifters – 30x24cm current price – £30

45. Untitled – 52x52cm current price – £30

We’re pretty excited about the XC World cup coming up (23-25 April).

We just got the heads up that:

If you hit the Dolby Forest this Easter weekend you can buy a World cup weekend pass for the price of a day pass.

So prices are: Adult: £9, Under 18: £5.50, Family (2 Adults, up to 4 Children): £25

Barg and a half!

Tickets are on sale at the Dalby Forest visitors centre and the World cup course is open to ride.

If you can’t make this weekend you can buy tickets (at full price sorry) on ticketmaster.co.uk or on 0844 847 2387

Over the break our shops are changing the hours slightly.

Carnaby Street – London

Friday              10am – 7pm
Saturday         10am – 7pm
Sunday            Closed
Monday           11am – 5pm

Queens Road – Bristol

Friday              9.30am – 6pm
Saturday         9.30am – 6pm
Sunday            Closed
Monday           11am – 5 pm

Siop howies – Cardigan

Friday              10am – 5pm
Saturday         10am – 5pm
Sunday            Closed
Monday           11am – 4pm

Here we’ll be signing off at 6 tonight and back at 9am on Tuesday morning.

Have a great Easter

Somebody dressed up the Otter in town.

Lookin’ good boi!

There is a massive service outage in London for 0207 numbers.

So our Carnaby Street shop has no phone, email, internet or card services.

Luckily the doors are still open and the cash till still works.

We’ll keep you updated.

March’s T-shirt of the Month is ‘Crumply’

If you have better things to do with your time than
washing, ironing, or the fickle world of fashion.

Then Mr Waldo Pancake has designed you the perfect T-shirt.
Wear it with pride, wear it creased and unwashed, but most of all
wear it looking down on all those boring ‘nicely turned out’ people.

You rock, they don’t.

Available in Vintage Red for men & Mid Blue for women.

March’s Archive T-shirt of the Month is ‘Breathe’

By bike, by board, by foot and by yourself.
Get out there and find your diversion.
Look for some solitude.
And breathe it in…

Inhale, exhale.

Available in Sinatra Junior for men & Banana for women.

From 10pm until 2am our servers-somewhere-in-the-sky are under going maintenance.  So if you can’t read our blogs don’t worry we’ll be back in the by the time you wake up tomorrow.

It’s only affecting our blog not the main howies site.

So while we’re down, why not step outside and stare at the sky.

If you need an internet fix, you could head over to Ye olde brainfood blog circa 2008.