Boom.

Welcome to the team indeed!

Watch.

Dan Lacey is serious. From Federal.

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...

Checklist.

If you want to see, amongst other things, a cat drop in on a quarter, Mark Love drop the trademark back-rail fuf then oppo back-rail fuf, and Davey Watson do some sort of impossible manny-180 business, then this Federal Soulatour video is for you...



Federal aren't the only people who've been on a jaunt recently - Sunday have been at it too, up in Canada. Good riders + interesting spots = good video.

My God.

What the ****?



I don't want to live in a world where this is seen as a good idea.

It almost made me forget about the new Stay Strong Federal frame, or the new Stranger website with ridiculous nosemanual video within, or the new Charlie Don't Surf section...

Hunger strikes.

I am ravenous, so this is going to be necessarily brief.

I could watch Steven Hamilton videos all day, and in my youth I have done. However, I don't remember watching this before until it flashed up on Dig today. From The Day Is Over, some amazing riding that's 6 years old but almost everyone reading this would be really happy to have done themselves. (EDIT: Apparently this was originally uploaded by Federal, so kudos to them)



The Cult hype juggernaut rolls on:



I watched this video immediately after watching the WTP video, and really didn't feel the need to post it. I wasn't really into it, especially after seeing that vid, but as people have different opinions to me, here it is. Mark Webb, Sunny Side Up:



I'm now also cold and ravenous, typing on someone else's weirdly laid out keyboard, so I'm gone. Ta-ta.

I suck.

Forgot about two things - Adam's got a parts company, and Davey Watson is now doing a series of webvideos of surplus footage for Brunch. Here it be, which I saw over on ye olde Federal site.

Today is a good day?

Woke up feeling nice and refreshed. Played with the kitten a bit. Sunny outside. My sister's making me some food. In an hour, I'm gonna get on a train to Trowbridge to ride with the shop team rider Joel Nicholls. I fire up my computer to just check some e-mails. Friend I haven't heard from in a while had sent me a message. Check out some other sites, then spot this. When I first started riding, this was the first DVD I had. I bought it off Dan for a fiver 'cos he didn't like it (blasphemy!), and I watched this section pretty much every time I went out riding. Steven Hamilton, in Federal's Trafaelio (Which, incidentally, is a kinda phonic way of saying 'travelling' in Welsh).

Kill the line.

Trailer #2. Helmet cam and big trails = aaaawesome?



Range Of Motion's street session's hit days 7 and 8, and now hit the internet:



The new B-Team DVD should be out soon. To quote Grindmasterflash over on TCU:

This video will only be avalable in vhs and you have to pay for it with pegs.
Oh and if you play it backwards you can hear ralph listing every grind he has ever done.



This dude rides for Federal, and, like all the rest of their team, is really, really good.

Busy?

Apparently everyone decided to put cool stuff up online today?

Dan Lacey likes weed (who knew?) and custom paint jobs: Bikecheck.

T1's new Freaky Friday is up:



This was something fun I had an idea for when I went to Spain to film the Fox Andalucia series. This idea came to me one night while lying in bed. I thought it would be a cool way for people to see Ruben’s hip for the first time. I thought that the matador was fitting due to the fact we were in Spain. Then, I heard this song by Beruit and it fit together perfectly in my mind. But due to music rights issues, I never got clearance, therefore the idea couldn’t be used for the Fox vid. For those of you that have seen the riding in the 3rd part of Andalucia, this contains a few clips from that, plus one pretty funny ending one. These clips never get old to me. We laughed for awhile with this one. Hope you dig it” - Joe Rich

Joe rules!

Mike Hoder has a new webvideo up over on the Lotek site, where they also have pics up of the Hoder slims, a more padded version of the "Other" Mike Slims. Swish. Webvideo's awesome anyway: Watch here.

Sam Lowe is WTP's Canadian rider, who has a cool little edit up:



Lastly, it's not BMX, but it is awesome - the trailer for Season 2 of Nitro Circus. Check out their Vimeo channel here.

New product now in...

New Federal frames in (D-Watt$ and the Twilight), the new Deharts, and a load more - go to the shop! Free first class postage on every order, get amongst it.

Diversity.

So, the X-Games are in full swing. Check out Ride US's street qualifying video here, purely so you can see what some riders did and still didn't qualify, and also to see Garrett Reynolds do everything that everyone else did, but with either an additional 180° of spin, or with one more barspin (Or both).



They've got a park vid up too, but the music's utterly terrible, and it's the typical X-Games park routine, despite having an amazing course.

What isn't a terrible video though is the Let's Get Mystical trailer by Mutiny. Go here to read up about it. Sounds like it should be a pretty sweet video, and because they're hyping it at the end of it's production life it means less waiting too!

Now on Vimeo:

Mutiny Bikes "Let's Get Mystical" Trailer! from Mutiny Bikes on Vimeo.

In complete contrast to that Mutiny trailer, here's a different video...

EDIT - Which fully doesn't work?!


I shot a few photos of Scott Taylor yesterday for a bikecheck + riding photos thing for the Federal site. Click here to see his bike, and some surprisingly high tricks considering how hard those things are to ride...

No thanks!

Nope, I'll take my standard bike please, not the quick-released foldable version...
(Video from Ride)


Fair play to Shaun for utterly ruining himself with that floor, then getting up straight away. This isn't football.



In other news...

Making friends with the homeless:



Not making friends with your landlord. (Via Defgrip)

Making the most of old footage:


People answering questions:

Levi's® Clip of the Week: Nathan Williams Bio... - More BMX Videos

A man shows the world the Worlds:



Another man got a new bike:



And I rode an amazing skatepark and hit my heels. Again.

The end!

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.

EINBITTEN!

Is it wrong that "EINBITTEN" amuses me? Guessing that's "Embed" in German. Either way, poached this from over on Woozy. This video utterly rules in every sense.



Semi-related (In that they're a Vans Half-Cab bite), here are the new colour-way Lotek Eddies. They look sweeeeeeet.



The Federal blog is now up on BMXFeed, meaning I got the chance to see this Dan Cox updated bio with the greatest of ease.

Similarly, there's this rad update on FBM. Being able to make whatever frame you want has gotta be pretty damn awesome.

Busy Saturday?

Weird - weekends are usually dead for news! Anyways, here's some:

Taj has a "Now and Then" piece up on Dig. Talks a lot about his worse-than-I-thought-they-were back injuries - sounds like a pretty savage deal. Link!

New parts news! Federal and Subrosa this time - Federal have got all their new stuff in - check out how sweet the Twilight looks, and Subrosa have a 10° laid-back Pivotal post. Keen on this:



In other Seventies-ish news, Shadow have done an "X" with Streetphire for this video, and indeed interview.

Shadow X Streetphire Into The Void remix from Shadow Conspiracy on Vimeo.

You can also click here to watch the vid with H-Man's trademark background/pic integrated Vimeo thing business doohicky.

This is a pretty rad video of the Tattour thing that's going on:


Go to BNQT for more videos.


This is Alex Magallan's 'scrap' footage from the new Sunday. The theme of badly chosen songs for video parts certainly holds true in the real DVD itself.


BROUGHT TO YOU BY SUNDAY!

If you were wondering how to Stay Fit (Diet Pills, Dieting, Weight Loss - boosting that search engine optimisation, boom boom!), this is how, according to Dakota Roche:

:eltiT

Tom Blyth/Tom Sanders section from Tomorrow We Work is now online.



Issue 5 of Holeshot is now online, pic below rinsed from Nick Ferreira's Flickr page:



If you wanna know more about him, check out his Defgrip interview.

Having left Federal to ride for - of all people - KHE, Bruce Crisman's got a 'farewell edit' up from Edd Allen. All good inspiration, especially as I'm currently rolling (sorta) on a freecoaster.



Melancholy classical versions of Radiohead songs isn't what I need in my current mood, but this new Focalpoint edit is rad:

Slack.

Well, I ballsed that up... No love for Rampworx! Although I didn't really get much good stuff done for Nike it was still awesome meeting Will Smyth (Editor of Dig) and talking about zines, magazines and the internet, and also properly meeting Ricky Adam (Learnt a load from seeing how he dealt with everyone, all good!) instead of just bumping into his around the world. Big thanks to all the other filmers/photographers/riders, had a fun time even if I got all emo in the morning, haha.

Anyway, in BMX news:

The D-Watt$ frame is almost ready to buy. Saw one at Seventies, they're sweet! This is one built up for Mark Love, check the spec out here!



Dan Boiski has a web-vid up for Animal UK, potentially another vid from the Animal UK team soon? So I hear, anyway. In related news, Boiski rules at riding ramp too. Was a treat seeing him ride Rampworx.

Dan Boiski :: A Bike Co Edit from Channel 4Down on Vimeo.

Dig and Vinyl have a new webvid up. Interestingly (Well, not really 'interestingly', but hey...) uses the same song as the edit I had with Lloyd a while back, which reminded me that I actually sorta like this song, and that that day of riding was fun.

Vinyl/Dig Episode 2 Exclusive from Vinylbmx on Vimeo.

Two awesome videos.

First up, an entry into the Nike 6.0 vid/pics thingy comp majigger. Some of the shots seem kinda weirdly composed, but tip of the hat for the riding and painting...

NIKE 6.0 - A.D.P (FULL) from BLACK CUBE on Vimeo.

Also looks awesome compared to a lot of other entries 'cos it's on Vimeo not Mpora?

Secondly, Federal had Ty Morrow over and took him round the UK to meet the rest of the team. Nice touch! Anyway, the dude's awesome as are all of Federal's riders, so check it out.

Best WebVideo In Forever.

Bold claim, but whatever. The freshly signed to Federal Ty Morrow, and a video part destined for a previous sponsor. I love the way at the start his bike kinda rolls off in a "See you later..." kinda way...


Go to BNQT for more videos.


In other webvid news, the site that first seemed to really pump out quality BMX vids online, MidwestBMX, are back.


MidwestBMX.net is Back from jeff on Vimeo.

Crazy Germans.


Zwanzig Zoll Riders Mag Nr. 26 from Bommel on Vimeo.

The Making Of Stay Fit #23 with Homan, the New Era wearing alter-ego of Chase Dehart and Dakota Roche:



Lastly, the new frames from S&M for Randy Brown, Cardona and Cam Wood. 3/8" making a comeback? Rejoice, Profile Mini users. (Man, I hope these resize right (EDIT: Hell yeah!))