One of the things I love about working with people in the bike industry is that they almost always have other cool things going on.
In the case of Kat Sweet, these things are numerous. Kat works with kids in the Cascade Bicycle Club’s Earn-A-Scraper program; teaches adult “girls” (and sometimes boys) how to huck just about anything in the freeride world; races with the Dirt Corps team; loves drum ‘n bass; and attends night school. One of her classes allowed her the opportunity to create a Tupac scraper bike with bling and quotes from the rapper.
When I started developing concepts for my June “Bike Culture” show, I definitely had to include Kat – and shoot her with the hot pink that’s omnipresent in her wardrobe.
This was the end result.