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-

12:34pm

...or near enough.

I find it really hard to care about BMX teams, unless there's a team video being put out (infrequent). As a result, it's probably unsurprising that I didn't know who would be on Verde's UK team. This video (and the accompanying article in Ride UK) certainly enlightened me, although the sort of 'style' of team seems to be a bit different to the US team. Not talking about in terms of outright ability or anything, but they just seem to be different sets of riders. Meh, who cares?

Here's Verde's UK trip. Highlights just how rad Kevin Kiraly is:



Trey Jones is awesome. He's got a great section in the new Cult DVD (About £10 or so, available from the shop now, just give 'em a call! Amazing video, definitely worth it), and this Tuesdays With Miles vid from his back yard is cool too. Some awesome front wheel action.



While we're talking new vids, the latest Road Fools, according to TheComeUp, will feature these dudes with a few bonus extras.

Madera:
Dave McDermott
Jeff Kocsis
John Ludwick
Josh Eilken
Mike Hinkens
Tom Villarreal

Premium:
Garrett Reynolds
JJ Palmere
Josh Harrington
Dan Foley
Chad Kerley
Sean Ricany

I think I may have posted this, but if not, Tony Hamlin is all good. From Kink.



P.S. Would've originally been a 12:34 post, but customers spannered those particular works...

G-Sport Edit

G-Sport Welcome Edit.

That first link is about as functional and direct as G-Sport products and the G-Sport website. Link-up! Anyways, Randy Brown, Dave Thompson, Dakota Roche, Van Homan and Andrew Jackson - pretty much a "Favourite riders of mine" compilation video, and it's awesome.

Verde's team can do no wrong.

There, I said it. Even when Dave Thompson ghosts his bike it's comedy.



All the riding in this is nuts, especially the slightly unorthodox ender. All good.

Speaking of 'good', Akin Hercules-Walker seemed pretty good in his Ride interview, and he's now on the Emulsure team. I don't really know what, if anything, being on that team means or consists of, but... well... you get this video out of it anyway, so I suppose it's for the best.

Not much to say?

Although those shirts could spell out "HIPSTER" and be as relevant to the scene portrayed in it, it's still a pretty good concept and I'm still keen to see what Almond come up with. WeThePeople and Eclat are both awesome, so there's no reason Almond shouldn't be.

Speaking of shoes - Vans have consistently been the best things I've attached to my feet for the past few years, and - again - this combo with WeThePeople should also be good. Cup sole instead of vulcanised, but hey ho!



If you're thinking of buying a new complete any time soon, MirraCo have updated their range. Ride have the scoop.

By the way - if you haven't watched it again today, the Dave Thompson video below is still totally awesome.

Deary me.

Go to PropsBMX.tv for more videos.


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