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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.

Green Oil UK Limited is a family run company based in Bromley in Kent. From product ingredients, to the bottle deposit scheme, to the recycled boxes used for wholesale orders, being green is central to all we do.

Green Oil has won awards for performance from the cycling world. Green Oil UK Limited, the company behind Green Oil won a Bromley Environment Award and was recently short listed for innovation in the BikeBiz Awards 2008.

Our cheesy slogan used to be ‘destroy limits, not nature!’. The slogan referred to destroying your limits of skill, stamina and speed, yet without damaging the environment with nasty toxic chain lube. However, this wasn’t inclusive of people who just wanted to ride to the shops.

Our new slogan isn’t calling for a military coup, so don’t worry. The revolution we all need to join, is one of making the world environmentally sustainable. Within this, we need to use bicycles more, and embrace the ‘revolution’ of all those cogs.

If people continue to use toxic chain lube indefinitely, future generations will have more pollution to clear up, aquatic life will suffer and cancer will spread. PFOA, a byproduct of Teflon, the ingredient used in many chain lubricants was classified by the US Environmental Protection Agency as a ‘likely human carcinogen’ in 2005.

If companies continue to use deforestation paper, and generally operate for short-term profit at the expense of the environment, the future will not be good for us, or for future generations.

We at Green Oil UK buy back our bottles, use sustainably sourced ingredients, and use recycled paper in the office. Our packaging is easily recyclable. For example, the plastic labels now used are the same type of plastic as the bottle, making recycling more efficient and reducing label contamination in the recycling stream.

End dependence on pollution join the revolution!

Simon Nash the founder of Green Oil, will be joining us on Tuesday 23rd March from 7:15pm onwards to give a talk on the company, how it all began and where it is going. He will also be giving demonstrations and a workshop on how to get the best from all the Green Oil products.

If you would like to come down and have a listen, a free beer or innocent smoothie and maybe get your hands a bit dirty, then email us at carnabyst@howies.co.uk or ring us on 0207 287 2345 and reserve your ticket!

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.

I really like this.

Fixed on the road. BMX off the road. Perfect.

Well, we did it! Last weekend we worked hard to get all our fancy new sample stuff out on the shop floor. We have some of the best samples I’ve seen yet, from something that looks like a sample pair of tom proof jeans to a nice and soft sample cuddy shirt.
I wonder if anyone can find the sample Quickburst jacket that’s been hidden in the store…

We are coming to Manchester  this week for what I think will be our most Northerly Sample Sale this year. (Time and staff levels are the only reason)

Last year we came to the Triangle shopping centre and it worked so well that we are using a larger space.

The address is The Triangle shopping Centre, Exchange Square, Manchester. M4 3TR and opening times;

Thursday 18th 4pm to 8pm.

Friday 19th 10am to 6pm

Saturday 20th 10am to 6pm

Sunday 21st 11am to 4pm

This time we are upstairs in Unit 28. Our friends at Thoughtful are helping out and have made a MASSIVE howies banner, so look up when you come in and you should see us.

Mel and Lisa our clothing designers went through all their samples 3 weeks ago and have pulled out some unseen gems.

Naomi and Clare have spent 10 days in our cold back warehouse sorting and hanging and boxing.

Sinead is up from our London store (she’s a local) and Barney from our Bristol store and little ol’ me from Cardigan to work the 4 days and do some running, ride the fixeds round town and judging by how busy the hotels are, Saturday night should be fun.

Thursdays at every sample sale are always the busiest, and where you get the pick of the crop, but be prepared to hustle and bustle for your bargain.

Oh and as ever, bring a good bag as we will not have any.

And if your up for a 6 mile urban run, I am.

We are upto Manchester for a 4 day sample sale this week, Thursday to Sunday.

Anyone fancy running the city with semi fit me?

Heads up.

We’ve just uploaded some fruity new t-shirt colours for you..

All of our Spring designs in spangly new colourways.

Some blue, some red and even a bit of purple for the gents,
also a red, a blue and a delicious banana yellow for the ladies.

No fruit hats though sorry…

I watched this video last week some time, it’s way too fun to keep to myself.

Tim and Eric, Rogers Of The Month.

http://www.vimeo.com/9351357.

Fun times infinity.

Jeff.

vclub bmx – For The Sake of the Video – Trailer from Vclub Clothing on Vimeo.