Controversy.

So, it's X-Games weekend and we've already had the standard controversy about results. What seems strange is that it seems everyone's complaining about Daniel "Styleless" Dhers beating Dennis "Knows how to ride a bowl" Ennarson in Superpark, yet when Jamie "Knows how to ride a vert ramp super well" Bestwick beats trick ferrets people seem to complain about him winning 'yet again' just for going big, fast and smooth but not necessarily doing the most ground-breaking tricks. I don't really get that, but hey ho - here's a fairly boring video of people doing a lot of the same stuff on vert (as well as Jamie Bestwick going super high and super smooth), and some slightly more interesting stuff in the Superpark finals. You can theoretically watch the Street finals at midnight tonight here, but I'm not 100% sure that'll work...





Interesting how the most talked-about banger in the Vert category was that no-handed 900, last seen not that far off 10 years ago by a certain Mr. Hoffman. Progression...

For the record, I'm all about the lines and transfers Chase Hawk bangs out.

Misc. news.

Originally, Macneil had plans to make the Pivotal setup adjustable fore and aft, as well as just the angle of the seat. However, they decided it would be too expensive and shelved the idea. However, Alienation have decided to make it happen. I'm not holding out much hope, but maybe it's based more on the SL than the Odyssey/Fit pans. Not keen.





More pics, info and colour-ways after Interbike, which is in 2 weeks time or so. Always a busy time of year parts wise, so time to gear up for that I guess!

In other news, Daniel Dhers won the Summer Simpel Session. Isaac Lesser got second place - UK RPRZNT?

Zzz...

Holy moly, I am tired. But before I expire, Tom Arkus has an interview up by Vinyl about his Sunday hookup, and some other stuff. Words, people, riding:



Daniel Dhers dropped out a new trick - the "Cash Roll". He mentions in this video that he was happy he pulled it, and looks forward to doing it again. That definition of 'pulled' is pretty loose. Interesting how he describes learning to do the trick though - pretty stark contrast to learning new stuff on, say, street or trails...

Shocker.

Daniel Dhers in a photo, doing a tailwhip?



But seriously, you need to click this link purely to see how high Dennis Enarson's flair is. To the moon!

In "Not gonna remember that URL" news, Cardinal have a web-video up on their site, "Crdnlbikes.com". Was "Cardinelbikes.com" taken or something?

As I said before, the Charles Prow jam is tomorrow. His local newspaper have a thing up online about it. Also, as I said, if you can make it - or don't have anything else to do - try and get there. It'll be well worth it, whether you knew the guy or not.

Ashley Charles has a "How do you plead?" feature up on the Union site. Good answers.

Seeing as it's kinda ironic in that that's talking about fashions and so on, here's Mike Mastroni's bike check.

Lastly, there've been a fair few park vids out today, but they're pretty much all the same. This one's a bit above the rest, so ch-ch-ch-ch-check it. Taking a wild guess, CheltBMX.com?

Sam Marden 's Pittville Session - More BMX Videos