Saturday = Awesome video day?

Apparently so. Something new and something old in the form of a Bangin' new Eric Lichtenberger video from Sunday, which potentially the most ridiculous pegless rail-related ender ever?

Eric L, Hold On! from SundayBikes.com

The 'old' is this awesome section from Brighton Ain't Ready featuring Sean Sexton and the not-used-enough TV On The Radio. "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes" and "Dear Science" are well worth a listen if you're planning on broadening your musical spectrum. Vocal harmonies? Hell. Yeah.



Speaking of pegless enders too - not the first time this ender's been seen in a web edit (Ben Lewis got involved with one to name but one person), but it's serious business none-the-less. Some awesome little bits and pieces in the rest of the video too, but what else would you expect from the freshly Fit sponsored Farren Downes? The dude's rad...



Lastly - if you want to see the new Cosmotron V3 or part of the new Sect forks (wasn't that name taken already?), click those links.

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Usually, the standard "WEED WEED WEED 4:20 BLAZE BLAZE BLAZE" kinda web-vids are pretty tedious, and seem to have to feature at least 15seconds of footage of people just smoking, but fortunately, this video doesn't. I went to the Bristol P5 street jam yesterday (Which, since you're asking, was awesome), and like after most jams, web-videos just bore me. They never really get that 'feel' of riding after seeing plenty of nuts stuff in the flesh, but this video broke through that and is really good. Good tune, awesome riding, good filming. Winners.



I've actually got a set of bolts heading across the Atlantic from this guy (I hate the imperial bolts on my Profile stem. They're getting dangerously tweaked out already. 6mm bolts on everything rule.), so it's good to hear a bit more about the man himself. Click here for an interview with the dude who runs BlueSix.

This is the Brighton Ain't Ready mix section, that has so many different people in it that I'm reasonably sure the only people who aren't in this video are you and me. No joke.



Plenty of deeecent stuff in here, straight from Dig.



Josh Betley has a frighteningly unpleasant looking bike. No joke.

Josh Betley @ Brown Skatepark - More BMX Videos

That's all for now. They tweaked the prescription for my lenses in my glasses, and I have a beast of a headache coming on...

Busy day?

Moving house, driving for 7 hours, not water in my house all day. Grumble. May well explain this post?





These are two new videos from Nike (That I saw over on Defgrip - linkity link!). I can appreciate that people outside of BMX might be able to make better looking videos with fancier graphics, but if you want someone to capture the 'feel' of BMX, someone involved with it is always going to get the point. It's pretty much a fact. If you look at photography and video work by people like Edd Templeton, Larry Clark and so on, their work is amazing because they're actively involved with what they're portraying. You can't get the real atmosphere and vibe of something if you have no involvement with it. There are so many talented filmers and photographers involved with BMX it seems ridiculous that they overlooked all of them. The majority of the BMX media world are generally under-valued as it is (Bearing in mind that without good filmers, those DVDs and web-videos everyone like to watch wouldn't exist, and without good photographers, those magazines that people like to read wouldn't exist either), so when they're denied even getting some kind of break by companies (Nike aren't alone in this, there are other BMX companies just as guilty), it seems utterly ridiculous.



Take it like a man! Sinisi filmed a large part of a video part with a broken leg... From Proper.

Posted the rest of these, so here's Day 5 of the Frenchys tour.

Leo won.

Lacey is also a winner, but for different reasons (Side note - it's nuts people are doing stuff this substantial for a little web video?!):



Also on Seventies's's's's's video stream, Dakota Roche checking the readiness of Brighton.



Saw the pole jam in this S&M web-video, and it reminded me of how awesome pole jams are. Seriously, if you haven't ridden one, you're missing out. They're ride-able pegless too, so even if you aren't a fan of trick sticks you can still get involved. If you can't find one, make one - it's not hard.



Rickey Bates is now pro for TheLongURLtotypeout.



I am tired. Night.

Video-tastic.

Frenchys Day 3 - you know the drill...

ESPN posted this, so I'd imagine it's legit - Ruben in Grounded. Ridiculous.



Brighton allegedly wasn't ready, but in a change of heart it's now ready to be online. Spotted over on Federal's site.



The Budget Jam is go - 19th-20th September, to be precise. Pijin are, amongst others, helping out with prizes, so go there if you wanna win stuff!

More unsurprising video content.

First up, a guy called Nicky B talking about riding and life. People who don't really like riding with new-comers always seem a bit 'weird' to me, but I guess living next to Southbank you just kinda get used to it. Plus more people = more people to go ride street with, which generally means a good time, but I guess it might be different over there...

VIMBY - Nicky B.

I first saw Kym Grosser ride in Shook's Put In Werk (I think... An old Shook anyway) vid, and wasn't hugely into his riding. However, then I saw Brighton Ain't Ready (which is good, go buy it! 2.5% off everything too thanks to Gordon Brown trying to dig upwards...) and realised he's actually Got Skills™. Liam Fahy-Hampton is also one to watch too, which anyone who's seen his Run At Me Slut section would testify too, so combine those two and you've got a cool little video:


Kym Grosser and Liam Fahy-Hampton from MACNEIL BMX on Vimeo.