Bits and (video) pieces.

First, some new product stuff. Cult have an Occult pivotal seat out. It's your usual stumpy Pivotal, but has what some people might consider a more alluring cover.



Cardinal's new frame also has a feature on Ride US. It's funny how MTB companies are always trying to copy BMX, but end up being a few years behind, whereas now a BMX company is copying what MTB companies used to do years ago. They're leaving behind vertical dropouts for a reason, but hey ho - I'm sure the public will decide...



Biggest embed code ever, by the way.

Oh - sort of a new product I guess, but issue 3 of CASE is due to drop soon. Don't think I saw #2, but #3 looks like it's light-years ahead of #1 in terms of design and (possibly) content, which is cool. Good to see progression there, and it's also good to see what looks like a pretty sweet end product. Looking forward to checking out the Tom Davis interview too - the guy's ridiculously good, yet still pretty much unknown. Having said that, I didn't realise he was sponsored now - although I probably knew at the time but forgot. Getting old or something... Anyways, Defgrip have the preview.

I'd heard plenty of rumours about the Carhartt video, and as a sort of 4-Down/Carhartt mix, here it is:



Lastly, before I eat my lunch and get back to work, here's a pretty random little edit feat. Eddie Cleveland and Jackson Ratima.



From TheMannaMachine, whatever that is?

Putting the 'dink' in 'coincallydink'?

I mentioned Stefan Lantschner in that last post, and as I did so I remembered that his Carhartt video was supposed to be out a while back. Didn't really tihnk much of it 'til I happened to open an old e-mail account up that was on the Woozy mailing list, and lo and behold - there it was.

Long-video-tastic

Well, due to Carlos feeling a little fragile today, P2 work's hit the buffers so I've decided to use Joel's net connection to hit up the Blog, and on a reasonable day too - full length videos from Derelict, Carhartt and... well... that's it, but that's pretty much an entire hour of BMX which should really be enough. Oh, there was a Sunday video too that felt like a feature film even though it wasn't, but that was more 'cos I just didn't really want to watch it anyway...

First up, the Derelict video (Seen over on Deluxe - from their full length vid released in early '08:


Derelict BMX - Never Gonna Win (2008) from Dave King on Vimeo.

Secondly, the Carhartt Gran Canaria vid (Features Stefan Lanstcher, Bruno Hoffmann, Owain Clegg and some other people who were reasonably forgetable. I don't think I've seen a bad Stefan L or Bruno H part, and although this video dragged at times, there's still some awesome riding.


CARHARTT RAVAGE GRAN CANARIA BMX TOUR from woozybmx.com on Vimeo.

Speaking of awesome riding, if you live in Southampton, come ride some street tonight? Do it, you won't regret it...

In genuine news though, Fly are the latest company to get ESPN'd, go check that out here.

Erny crafting some kind of drop nose Pivotal hybrid, seen over on Mutiny:



Lastly, 'cos I need to go use Joel's shower, here's some online Joel action, his interview on Ride re: OMB. Ch-ch-check it!

Sweet...

Stefan Lantschner seems to be under most people's radars, yet he's one of my favourite riders. As soon as I see mention of a video featuring him or Bruno H I'm generally all over it, and this time it was no exception when I saw Dig had posted a new Stefan L video for Eastpak/Carhartt. Yeah, the song's been used before but it's still rad...



In related video news, there's also this old Stefan/Bruno/Italy video that was on that Mpora account that features the best bike ghost ride I've seen in time at around the 0:40 mark.



Similarly, there's a distinct lack of Kevin Kiraly footage, which is something that needs to change. Fortunately, after an absence from our collective screen, he's got a video bikecheck up on Vital with a few riding clips:

See More BMX Videos at VitalBMX.com

Garrett Reynolds has a new signature frame, which features a seatclamp frighteningly similar to the snap-o-matic UKBikeCo original clamp. Here's hoping it's different (Although having said that, the Low-Pez frame from Premium appears to be straight out the same catalogue as the Revolution frame from Unknown, so I guess it's just the same people knocking out the same frames...)? Anyways, you can probably guess the standard geometry it's going to have - 13.75" rear end, 75deg head angle, 20.5" and 21" toptubes, 11.5" BB - but it is a little heavier than most 'new' frames at 5lbs 2oz. I also refuse to dignify their ridiculous "Certain colours for certain toptube length" setup with an explaination, so you'll have to try and piece it together for yourselves...