Saturday Video Frenzy!

That's right - Saturday Video Frenzy time.

Tom Dugan is now riding for Fit. Joe Rich is cool with this. Mike Aitken is cool with this. Ergo, you should also be cool with this. Here's a sort of 'see you later alligator' edit Joe Rich did featuring Tom, Joe and Ruben Alcantara riding some crazy setups in Malaga, at the time for T-1.



Double header from the Etnies/DansComp tour - first up, this edit of the whole trip. Features Chase Dehart, Nathan Williams, Corey Martinez, Tony Hamlin and some other people here and there. That ender is sweet.



The Bakery also have a little edit from when that trip rolled through - I'm assuming I won't be able to embed it, so click here to watch it with the date over-laid over part of the video.

Randy Taylor footage is always good to see, especially after the past 12 months where he's been MIA for one reason or other. This edit is his getting back into things vid for Mutiny.



Dennis Enarson is ridiculous, as this video I saw over on the Props site shows. Just sayin'.



Lastly, another Defgrip exclusive, another cool video. Pretty much on a 100% record there - those guys rule. This time it's a Bobby Simmons video which features some good stuff. Manuals for miles - Link!

Riding time...

Reason.

Almost a week off? Er... yeah... about that...

Whilst I didn't really do much in the space of a week apart from ride quite a lot and watch rugby matches in freezing stadiums in Cardiff, Rich Forne managed to show how the productive people of the world do things by going to Israel and managing to get a billion clips despite both riders taking themselves out of the equation mid-way through the trip. Skills. A different take on things to most BMX videos which is cool to see.



That was for Mutiny in case you hadn't guessed.

Keeping it more local (Although knowing Bow, probably about as dangerous as being in Israel), Tim Lewis is now hooked up good 'n' proper and has this video to celebrate that fact. I knew Tim pretty well from the 3 years of riding around London we shared together, but getting to hit up London again recently to say hi again was a treat. Rad dude, and no video will ever really give you the full Tim experience.



Tim's style always sort of reminded me of Brad Simms, and as if to just give me the evidence to try and prove that, The Set put up this video of him a day or two ago. Simply ridiculous. Going uuuup...



Lastly, Cinema put this up today. Awesome team, soon to have some good product flowing out the door too if rumours are to be believed? Anyways, here she blows.

Eve.

Cool, so it's basically Christmas (somehow - doesn't feel like it?!), so hope you all have a good one.

As a potentially last post of the year (depending on how things go), here's a couple of recent video highlights.

Etnies team is really good, and in this video (click the link to view it) it really shows. Some awesome lines at some awesome spots with some awesome weather. Jealous.

Speaking of teams - Seamus McKeon is now on Subrosa's Skeleton Crew. Definitely deserves it, good to see innovative people getting rewarded (even if the song isn't as innovative as the riding (oh yeah, made a song-stealing reference (went there (brackets)))...



Whilst we're still mentioning teams, to make up for it seeming like they haven't had a new web-edit from their team riders in a while, Federal have put up a 'best of' Derek Strickland video.



And laaaastly, a secret session with Ben Murphy.



Bueno.

End of an era?

Might be reading into this a little, but is Banners leaving the editors role at Ride?



We'll see, I guess...

More Millsy footage again, from yet more Federal content. All good!



Being the Ying to Seventies Yang, here's 4Down's video promoting Corey Martinez new frame, the Beacon.



Lastly, Vocal is the latest parts company to spring up from a distro, this time from Scoop. Product info on their site...

Cough cough.

Just been using some tinted lacquer in the next room, and that + a cold = bad times in a respiratory sense. Not cool.

What is cool is going online and finding a Cinema promo up. Chase Dehart, Garrett Reynolds, Corey Martinez, Sean Sexton, Nathan Williams? Mm-hmm.



Now - if someone named their contest and had the phrase "Street" in there, you'd expect some street, wouldn't you? Well, apparently not...

Context.

I'm typing this seated on a brand new office chair, sitting at a desk with my laptop, a proper mouse and mouse-mat, a digital typewriter, an external hard-drive, a massive dead moth that's staring at me and some turbo strength cold/flu medicine. Just thought I'd set that scene for you. Feels pretty pro...

Speaking of pro - the Rail Jam at Interbike is potentially the only real thing I'm going to post from Interbike in so much as it was the only thing that actually involved riding, and I'm very much more interested in that rather than more unimaginative parts. Some of the lines people do in this are about a million % more original and innovative than almost every part shown at Interbike this year. Vital had this video up - I don't want to put any spoilers, but damn... I really want to say how awesome it was to see some of the moves in there.



Speaking of things that are awesome - any Erik Elstran footage is good, and this video for The Set is no different. I'm keen on anything that's pretty much done purely to wind up people who deserve to be wound up, so if you find yourself recoiling in horror and heading over to TheComeUp to cry about the double 'giver' in this video, then you and I probably wouldn't get along.



In total contrast to that, most Etnies edits seem to be produced to try and appeal to as many people as possible and offend as few people as possible, and this video's not really much of an exception. That being said, there's some cool stuff in there.



Cult apparently had a promo they made to play at Interbike, so it should be cool seeing that when it drops for us 'normies' who didn't go to the Worst Place In The World just to look at some bicycle parts and watch Garrett Reynolds do a fakie nozzer down a ledge (Spoiler!), but The Trip have already put their promo video up. Pretty much a remix of their sweet 35min long 'promo' video from before, but still, worth watching:



Speaking of promos, I can't remember if I put this up before, and checking requires extensive clicking and looking so I'm not going to do that, but hopefully I didn't... Eclat's team is "Stacked" as they'd probably say on ESPN, and for good reason.



That's it. Apologies for the lack of external linking, but I'm very much not in the mood to type a href = "" target="_blank" and all that jazz over and over again. I hope that I'm not about to find that writing that in the middle of this paragraph explodes the Blog when I click "Publish Post" after I write the labels in for this post. If I didn't, woo. If I did, fffuuuuuuu-

No wai!

BMX shoe company in "Doing things properly" shocker? Probably a fairly (and un-necessarily harsh) way of starting that, but hopefully it got you reading. WTP are awesome, Eclat is awesome, and as a result you'd expect their shoe company to be awesome. It certainly is, from the sounds of things. They were floating the idea for the company about, and bouncing ideas around, back when I was in Cologne 4 years ago - probably why their shoes appear to be pretty dialled and they're still not released yet. Doing things properly = all good.

Spotted this over on the Nice website earlier - an edit from a good few months ago of John Ivers. Watch this, then go check out some of Nice's products, and maybe some of Solid's too.



Cards on the table time - if I put a video up on here, it means I've watched it. I don't really see the point in just propogating mediocre videos so I usually, unless stated otherwise, watch everything and just try and put up things I think are good. I'll be totally honest and say that I haven't watched all of this video. In fact, I don't think I got past the 1min mark. It's from Motion, so that should give people who know me some kind of reason why (i.e. park footage), but I'm sure some of you out there will like it. The editing's pretty full-on, but no doubt once your eyes become accustomed to it it should be fine.

Enjoy the pre-rolls. Man, I hate Mpora so much...



Bit of copypasta here for tea:

“Get a chance to win a Vans X WTP shoe. Watch the vid, find Bruno’s trick, then send your answer to info@frenchys-distribution.com. 10 people will be selected and wil win ton of stuff from Vans & WTP.”



Snaking the park dudes with the "Is that oppo or hard way?" issues at the end there. Cover your bases, "Smith to 180!". While I'm being sour - people need to stop using that same filter that gets dropped in this video when Bruno picks up the mic. I mean really - enough is enough. Definitely worth taking the time to point out that Bruno's getting pretty tech-serious on street now.

Lastly: Corey Martinez apparently owns the rights to the twist to smith. So smooth.

Video overload!

Coupla bits.

3rd in the Nike comp went to the USA:



2nd went to the UK.



No pressure on the winners to justify it then, haha.

Shadow have gone on a trip recently.



United's video is going to be rad:



Vinyl have put up a cool edit of Timmy Theus:



ESPN have also put up a cool edit, but this one's of Trey Jones.



Think that's about it. 4 minute blog explosion!

Tweak!

One of the things I like seeing most in videos is people going really fast over hips and doing those little tweaks. I don't know what it is about them, but they're awesome, and there's one to demonstrate in this Bicycle Union video. Lots of other rad riding too, give it a peep.



I don't really know much about the LeastMost apart from 3 things: They're now in BMXFeed, the term "Shreditorial" made me cringe so hard I almost inverted my face, and they have a Van Homan interview on their site with this accompanying Props Bio.



There have been more rumours of indoor parks near or in Southampton than the number of flat tyres I got last year. However, this one looks a little more serious - click over to Ride's site for the info! £1.4m...

Videodrome.

Few more hits on search engines with that title?

Anyway:

T-Nez has taken his Etnies-clad feet out for a pedal around, and here are the results - courtesy of Jeff K:



This Staff video has some cool stuff, but Big Daddy shuts it down.



Nathan Williams is smoother than you:

Levi's® Clip of the Week - Nathan Williams Mix - More BMX Videos

If you saw Carlos's bike a while back, you may have noticed his kink-cross-barred bars - from a company called Country Bikes. They've been around for a while now, and they've got a bunch of new stuff coming out (Including this frame and seat/post combo). BMXUnion did an interview with Country's main dude Torsten Pullich. Click here to read it.

Saga.

Third post about what people are wearing on their feet? PijinFashion.blogspot.com? Anyway, Corey Martinez, as I mentioned before, was wearing a pair of Etnies, and is apparently getting hooked up by John Povah on some kinda flow deal type thing. Fair enough. No word about KP yet, more on that next week (I can hardly wait!) - Osiris or Duffs is my guess.

Anyway, after the most boring post I've done in a while, check this out. The guy's pose after he's had his gun blown out of his hand is priceless. That "Well, that's that" look, before getting wrestled to the ground by some angry men. Sucks to be him.

A predictive text?

Pointed it out as a joke a few days ago, but turns out that actually, T-Nez isn't on Orchid any more, and neither is Kevin Porter according to this post on the Orchid site. Calling things early!

While we're speaking of Orchid, they've got a "sneak peek" of the new Randy Brown shoe's black/gum colourway. Every other word is bold.



Frenchys Day 6.

Done!

EDIT: Actually, I'm not - apparently Randy Taylor is getting hooked up by TheLongURLToType, according to this post by Mutiny. Here's his new rancidly-coloured setup:

Serious. Business.

Jeez, you make one fake post as Glenn P.P. Milligan and people get all upset...

Anyway, Simple have been on a trip:



Tuesdays With Miles never disappointment. Fact.


Go to BNQT for more videos.


OMG, Corey Martinez is wearing a pair of ETNIES!!!!11!!



Ride have a little interview with Tom Sanders about getting the cover-shot as part of the Hull scene check, which - incidentally - pure awesome. George Marshall can literally do no wrong. Apparently some people complained about it being too negative, but... well, the long and short of it is that they're wrong, and if you found it too depressing to read there's the colourful pictures and short little bits of text that float around Ride US or BMX Plus! you can check out instead. Everything's wonderful!

Oh, and lastly, Animal have the first coloured steel pegs. Glorious.

Corey Machinez.

Check out this video of Corey Machinez doing ridiculous things on a bike in Chicago, filmed and edited by the awesomeness that is Vinyl. Muy bueno!



Harry Main has broken his leg, which sucks. This means yet another no-show for the apparently much anticipated live battle between Mark Webb and Harry. BMX: Serious business.

In other 'apparently' news, Scott Ditchburn is for some reason off Orchid and on Odessa? Weird move, maybe it's different on the other side of the fence...

Lastly, from Federal, you know you're street when you go to a skatepark and don't even touch the trannie...

Slack BMX - Shayn Steels crash from Federal BMX on Vimeo.

24hrs in Ohio

Just spotted this on ESPN, definitely worth a look!



Also, the second Coxie On Tour video's up. Didn't post the first 'cos I refuse to post videos of people hitting jumpboxes the whole time (Yeah yeah, bad weather, I k now...), but this one fully delivers:


More BMX >>


This was up on Dig, and although it wasn't the Chicken I was hoping it'd be, the intro and pre-ender-ender make it worth a watch...

No way!

You mean Professional BMXers are normal people, just like us?



Who knew...

Rory Ellis, S&M's (Interestingly (Well, not really) I can't put S&M as a tag because you're not allowed to use &'s. FACT.) wallride machine, has a little edit up. Can click the HD icon and go check it out in HD, but for 2 minute web-edits there's probably no need? Your call I guess.




Madera have made one of the more frightening looking stems of recent times. 9.1oz - que? Unfortunately I just bought a new stem, never mind eh.





In Mark news, I got to ride today without having to wear 5 layers. T-shirt weather in February? Hoot! Similarly, bright sunshine and new spots. Also got to see a couple of hyenas and some hectic birds of prey at London Zoo on the way there, as well as some music-type people's expensive mansions. Camden Lock - who wouldn't.

I'm down in Southampton riding from tomorrow for a few days - the weather's supposed to be good, so people had best be out. No excuses...

Good stuff.

No joke - Randy Taylor via Stew Johnson via Mutiny - check it!



And lastly, Nathan and Corey being Nathan and Corey, i.e. good. United.


Channel 4Down BMX :: Corey & Nathan Evening Session from Channel 4Down on Vimeo.