Author: JS ElSolitario

WHEELS & WAVES 2017: BACK TO THE ROOTS

Feels good to be back – exhausted but sound – at El Solitario Ranch after surviving for another year our best and worst week of the year. As the festival gets bigger so do we and so do the risks and challenges we encounter. Thinking on the way back home about this  chronicle, couldn’t help  but ask myself if it is worth so […]

GRIZZLY RIDE 2017: PRAY FOR RAIN

Optimistic weather forecasts predicted 2 days of heavy rains and stormy skies. Wheels & Waves chief had the chance to cancel but he did not, and the fuck he was right. Anyone can ride in the sun, but it takes a bunch you can trust to stay packed and ride far acknowledging conditions will not ameliorate. Can’t wait […]

PHOTOGRAPHER SHOOTS FORMULA 1 WITH 104-YEAR-OLD CAMERA

Once legendary, F1 is now so surrounded by ugliness that only a candid eye behind a 104 year old camera could isolate its true magic and show it to us in all its glory for absurd as this might sound. If ever there was a sport that required rapid fire photography, Formula One racing is […]

RALLY IS OUR NEW BLACK

El Solitario has a crush for racing, it is not a secret, but we have a very idiosyncratic approach to the subject. Winning is alright but it is not what drives us. It is riding vividly and the camaraderie you find in “informal” racing what thrives us. In the last 7 years at the helm of […]

WHEELS AND WAVES: USA

Amiable, slow-paced Cayucos recalled an Old West frontier town and perfectly served as a home away from home where all the old friends reunited there, felt free enough to realize how blessed we are for our daily fights

E T H O S

We the wolves believe in hard work and to treat others as we want to be treated ourselves. We also believe that snake oil sellers and false prophets are the worst illness that any given community can suffer, though should be fiercely eradicated…

NEVER WORK TAILOR MADE JACKET

It is only natural that El Solitario and The Concrete Co. collaborated in the creation of a unique garment. At El Solitario we live our lives and our work in such a passionate way that we hardly see the boundaries between the two, like Fernando Garcia de la Calera (founding tailor of The Concrete Company) […]

AN EL SOLITARIO HANG OVER

The house looked like a police narcotics lab. We had two bags of grass, seventy five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine…

EL SOLITARIO RACING: “LA COPITA”

“As brother Alberto Garcia-Alix told me once, when you achieve something unforgettable – you better be fast, grab it, fuck it & devour it, or you’ll be a fool – Contemplating all of “Las Copitas” together, secured me a seat in motorcycle nirvana. I couldn’t fight against my sensory overload, the crowds or the fucking skies […]