Look at that rider list. If you are anywhere remotely close to this bike shop, find a way to get there this Saturday.

Wow. This is an absolute masterpiece. Luc is the truth on a whole new level.

Here, Brandon Galosi, Animal’s designer and ALYK figurehead speaks about Animal’s new line with some chick who doesn’t know what the hell is going on, mostly focusing on their upcoming American made products.

Animal also did a one off collaborative bike with 10 Deep you can check out here, which even earned them a write up on fashion mega-blog, Hypebeast.

Figured this was going to happen sooner or later but Edwin made it official today on Instagram:

It seems that this guy prefers to go by “033″, so that’s what I’ll call him. 033 is from the Ukraine and is doing it for Velomarket and Animal. He’s got that classic grind heavy style you’d expect from an Animal affiliate, and some short shorts you wouldn’t expect.

Jeff Kocsis spent a week in Texas back in October, and now the footage has surfaced. Pretty creative use of a spot in the last clip, most riders wouldn’t give it a second look I bet.

Here’s a minute of some Animal affiliates in the streets of Philadelphia.

There’s a really good interview with Ken Spaulding of Zodiac Engineering on The Merged. He covers a lot of different topics (he basically says that they’re making the John Povah designed T1 stem that has been in the works for years) but one of the most interesting is that he’s working with Animal:

“I really like where Animal is headed. They are slowly bringing parts production back to The States, and that is something am personally very passionate about.”

The photo above is a prototype Animal sprocket that Zodiac made. I’m sure Animal’s production will stay primarily overseas for a long time, but the ramifications of Animal moving even some of their production back to the states could have a huge effect on the industry. In fact this is probably the first time I’ve EVER heard of a parts company who gets their stuff made in Taiwan moving any of their production back home. Very interesting.

Wiz’s “Cuts” section is this week’s release from the seemingly never-ending DVD.

This is rad. After the jump check out a bunch of videos of the guys on the Animal team (Nigel, Tom White, Tyrone, Oba Stanley, Edwin and Jerry) hanging out wearing some new Animal stuff.