No time!

Pretty short on time, so here's a quick infoburst from the past few:

This Federal video, like most Federal videos, is very good.



Here are the edits from The Make/Mutiny trip that went down recently. Coverage is in the new Ride UK if you want to know more. Oh, and get well soon Roey!





Vans and Cult also did a trip recently, and here's their video.



Mike Escamilla has been there, done that, and received a plethora of T-shirts over the years. This is his latest video part, and if - like me - you were initially a little skeptical about how much you really wanted to watch it, it's definitely worth clicking over to and checking out. Some rad stuff in it! Click 'ere maaaaate.

I hate titles.

Mixed bag today...

Firstly, Zoltan Torkos has a pretty rad style (and also an additional $10k as a result of this video):



"Video starts in 29secs." No, Mpora, video starts noooow.

Moving back to BMX, and specifically to people who have or still currently work for RideUK - firstly, H-Man's got some sweet photos up from his time at Seventies posted up on Streetphire. Secondly, at work we're on the BikeBiz newsletter so every now and again we get sent e-mails that are so dry they actually dehydrate me through my laptop's screen. This time, however, they actually had something interesting - specifically this interview with Albion. Seeing as I know a bunch of you dudes are well into your Facebook lurking, you can 'like' Albion's page here.

Shane Weston seems to have done things differently in every edit I've seen from him before, and that continues in this video put together by Nathan Williams.



The write-up for this that George Marshall did made it sound like a pretty... er... 'difficult' trip compared to most of the usual roadtrips that bike companies go on, but this video's still awesome. From The Make, who've been putting out some rad videos lately. You should probably click the 'label' down below and check that out, they're doing it right.



Side note: 'Make' is a weird word. Just stare at the actual word for a while. I hate language.

Cool Video Tuesday?

It just doesn't have that same ring to it, but hey ho, cool videos are cool videos.

As a bit of serious business first, I've had a couple of people ask me if Dan's alright - as some of you may know, there've been some pretty serious earthquakes over in Christchurch in NZ where Dan's living these days. We got a call at about 3am saying that he's alright and his friends are all safe too, so that's all good to hear.

SRS BZNZ aside, here's some more up-beat stuff. Dakota Roche is an animal. In case the massiv array of logos doesn't give it away, he's also got the hook-up from Monster. He's also got pop!



Next up are a couple of "Exclusives" - some pretty entertaining comments in the chat section for The Make Winter 2011 video that appeared on TheComeUp yesterday. Some awesome riding from some super good but pretty under the radar people. Always a nice combo.

This is a bit of a contrast in many ways but not in a bad way. Chris Childs over on Defgrip.

And as yet another contrast - although mainly to the whole of the BMX scene these days - here's Mike Brennan from DQYDJ2, thanks to Animal.

Alex Kennedy

...rips. You'd have thought someone could've hooked him up with some new bars seeing as he was at the warehouse, unless it's just my rubbishy eyes making his bars look super bent?



Interesting to see how The Berrics Effect is hitting the BMX world though. I'm into it. Seeing as we're talking Seventies, Bruno Hoffmann is now on Federal having left WTP recently. I just realised I didn't actually mention that before, so apologies if that came as a shock. Some people seem to be super into all that side of things, so sorry for not breaking that to you gently. Hopefully this farewell edit will soothe the pain.



While I'm remembering things I didn't post, this is Chicken's section from The Make's Rain Dogs video. Beast.



Saw that over at Streetphire by the way!

Because I don't exactly have the Pijin Blog Viewer Demographic Data to hand I don't really know how much you people like to read more full-on industry-tech stuff, but if - like me - you do, there's an interesting interview over on Ride US with John Povah about the future for Etnies. I think pretty much everyone who's ridden brakeless and has had to buy a pair of shoes has at some point though about how cool it'd be to have a dual compound brakeless shoe, and considering the amount of rider owned shoe companies out there I'm pretty amazed no-one's actually done it earlier. I guess it's a lot easier to snake Vans than having to come up with some totally new bits 'n' pieces... Anyway, biting aside, some cool stuff on show.

Zzz.

This is really, really good, and I'm now going to bed. TheMake are doing it right.



Go and check out the Make site now, some awesome stuff on there. I don't think you'd find "Jeff has decided to leave to go and ride for Eastern…. Maybe Eastern is a lot cooler in America than it is in England!" on any other company's website...

Chicken and Shaun...

Another cool video from some cool people - Chicken and Shaun livened up all the P5 jams I met them at, and also let me crash in their house one night which was 100% preferable to ending up almost falling in canals with Lloyd. AAAAAAAnyways, this was over on the Make site and has some nice lines in it. Bonus points for 0:23-0:27 too...

Coincidence...

I was thinking a night or two ago how I hadn't seen Charlie Don't Surf for ages, and contemplated banging it in my DVD player until I decided that I didn't really want to watch it at that particularly point purely because of how much I want to move back to Newcastle every time I see it... Anyways, here's the first couple of sections from it. The video builds up really well, so stay tuned for the last couple of sections. Most definitely worth it.





Mentioned the Berrics inspired 'text in' thing that Ride are running - I haven't watched these because I'm in a bit of a rush and really have better things to do right now, but they might be entertaining. The Berrics version usually is, mainly due to the editing of them, so I guess these might be...





I would very much like to ride the spot in the first section of this video.

Lastly, Chicken rules. Anyone who's been to a P5 jam will know this, but still - he's amazing.



Actually, that wasn't lastly - I mentioned last week (I think?) about Mutiny getting Rich Wilson to do an edit for them. Turns out that edit was of Safe Nath, who appears to not be scared of going fast, and have a good rollback and toboggan. All good!

Lunchtime video spectacular?

Got a few choice video treats for you this lunch time...

TheMake have banged out another little short 'n' sweet web-edit, to celebrate the launch of some new items of clothing finery:



Miles has done another Tuesdays with..., this time featuring a place that looks preeeeeeeeeetty fun to ride.



Kriss Kyle appears to have gotten better, smoother, faster and somehow a lot older looking in the space between this edit and his last. This one's for BSD.

Volume.

Chicken cooked up this edit of a recent Volume trip to lands afar:



If memory serves, Carlos is a big Corey Bohan fan, so this one's for you.

BCB in Barca.

These dudes rule! Can't wait for the next 'Oop North' P5 jams...


Barca 2009 from Chicken BCBMX on Vimeo.