One of the best parts of the integration of the internet into the
BMXing world is gossip (Which I got caught out with last post, cheers for the heads up
Nuno!), and potentially the best rumour I've heard, courtesy of
TheComeUpBoard, is that
Federal/
Lotek/Fremont (<-New site!)/
Primo rider
Dan Lacey is being tried for "
Attempted murder" because "supposedly his little brother got battered and he went after them with a sword".
I laughed.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAnyway, NORA cup award for
best opening line on a video ever? Potentially. Fulfilling that "One NORA cup reference per day" rule pretty successfully there.
Last time I dedicated a video post to
Sam, expecting him never to read it, I got a "Cheers dude!" next time I saw him. Going for two in a row -
Sam, check this video out, you'll
dig it. No pun intended.
Sunday have released the pics of the
production Ian Schwartz frames. If that head angle was a wee bit steeper, the back end a wee bit shorter, and that
Macneil post a wee bit less integrated (
New Wave 2 frames out soon after the
Ian frame, so it won't be too much longer, hopefully!), I'd be all over that like a rash. Pics of it look sweet anyway, so I'll put a tempter up here then you can click over to
the relevant page yoselves.

Neato!
Rob Wise is a champ (And off
Mirraco - incidentally: In case you're not
Sam, and you didn't click that link earlier, head over to
Ride UK's site to win a
Mirraco Blend. How's that for editorial linkup? (Which is itself a quote from an old
Ride. Double whammy!)):
Proof here.
Speaking way earlier of both
Nuno and
Lotek, I just saw on
Defgrip that the new
Lotek Spring/Summer models are out now, specifically the
Nightwolf Slims and the
Coastals. More info up on the
Lotek site, but yeah, I'm into the
Coastals.
More long-term readers might remember me posting up this photo literally ages ago:

Well, the news about that new
Van Homan Casual shoe has been confirmed. I can't even remember how I got hold of that photo back then in the first place, but it was like a weird sense of
deja vu reading
the Orchid news page about that shoe model. Creative writing at it's finest in that news page too. Trying to talk about
Van's shoes in relation to
Vans shoes = literary techery.
Big news I forgot to mention until now (That's how pro I am) is that the new
PijinForum is up and indeed running. Fellow blogger, former freecoaster user, current shop worker and "Car Enthusiast"
BoneDave hit me up with a link to the
beta version a few days ago, and now, like the former kid's TV show staring pre-grey-haired
Philip Schofield, the forum is literally
Going Live. I'm sure if
Dan's internet connection allows him to read this blog, he'll probably approve of that last bit. Anyway, get involved, tell everyone what you think about life,
Pijin, this blog or anything you want, and we'll all pretend to be interested...
Lastly,
Snafu have some new product out. Here's a link to the
Fat BMX article about it, but knowing the majority of
Southampton's riders to some extent, I'm guessing the chances of anyone running any of that stuff are probably about the same as
Mike Escamilla's life being described as "Boring".